Posted by Nibbechist on August 19, 2000 at 17:15:52:
In Reply to: Yes, I can explain it to you. (explanation inside) posted by Zepachu on August 19, 2000 at 16:41:11:
> These are the steps you took to format the log...
>
> 1) Clicked on Log Format on the left.
> 2) Pasted the log into the space.
> 3) Then you hit Format it... and saw it all nice and formatted.
>
> Next...
>
> What I think you did was... you then highlighted THAT nicely formatted log, copied it, came to the log board.. posted the message and pasted that into the message body field... right?
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> When you COPY something after highlighted it, it only saves it to plain text... so basically you really just pasted the original log before you formatted it.
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> To properly do it... Follow steps 1-3, if you like the way it looks, click on the back button on your browser.. then click the radio button "HTML Source" instead of "As Document" under the "Display Type."
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> When you hit Format It! this time you'll see all HTML code.. Highlight that whole thing, from the TABLE at the top to /TABLE at the bottom... Then go to the log board and paste it in. Whatever you saw the first time that you liked will then be there.
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> Oh ya, if you wanted to add comments in (like you did in this log) after you paste the TABLE - /TABLE code into the message, just type your comments before the first TABLE.
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> Did I confuse you? Probably, but I think it helped.
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> Too Lazy To Go Back And Clarify Things,
> Zepachu
>
> > nt