27-07-2005 22:37									#1
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If you put a greater-than sign in your post, all the following text disappears. It's still there upon editing, but in the thread display, the text is missing.

Go ahead, try

	27-07-2005 22:49									#2
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Er, as somebody reminded me, it's the "Less-than" sign. Damn you Ogie Oglethorpe!

WTF do I know? If I want math done, I'll have one of my minions do it. Like Ogie.

	27-07-2005 23:01									#3
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fascinat

	27-07-2005 23:30									#4
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What<>are<>you talking about?

	27-07-2005 23:32									#5
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If you put a "less than" sign in the middle of your post, it makes your

	27-07-2005 23:32									#6
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... words invisible.

	27-07-2005 23:36									#7
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I think it's because the forum interprets the less than sign as the beginning of an HTML tag. Use a compimenting greater than sign like Dauphin and there's no problem.

	27-07-2005 23:43									#8
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Well, there goes all those math posts I've been carefully crafting. Now noone will believe me about my 7 line proof to Fermat's last theorem.

	28-07-2005 01:17									#9
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hey, this is coo

	28-07-2005 01:26									#10
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You should be using &gt; in place of a > and &lt; in place of a <.

	28-07-2005 01:39									#11
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Now why would I want to do that when the actual symbols are right on my keyboard?

Computer Sense < Common Sense.

	28-07-2005 02:42									#12
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quote: Originally posted by JohnT If you put a "less than" sign in the middle of your post, it makes your

	28-07-2005 02:49									#13
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test:


edit: it worked!. Good thing. I called someone a homo in there. You can find it by going to page source.

	28-07-2005 02:50									#14
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This is so

	28-07-2005 03:10									#15
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UR ALL

	28-07-2005 03:29									#16
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quote: Originally posted by JohnT If I want math done, I'll have one of my minions do it. Like Ogie.

And

quote: Well, there goes all those math posts I've been carefully crafting. Now noone will believe me about my 7 line proof to Fermat's last theorem.

Què?

	28-07-2005 03:31									#17
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JohnT sense < Common sense

What can I say?

	28-07-2005 03:55									#19
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quote: Originally posted by Dis test: <JohnT is a homo edit: it worked!. Good thing. I called someone a homo in there. You can find it by going to page source.

Or by quoting.

	28-07-2005 05:07									#20
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Not to be unkind or anything, but a person who can't even ask a girl out has no business calling others a homo.

	28-07-2005 06:28									#21
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This bug is the reason they invented code tags.

code:
UR ALL 

EDIT: Ok, maybe it wasn't.

	28-07-2005 09:43									#22
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quote: Originally posted by Immortal Wombat Or by quoting.

Damn you
ACK!

	28-07-2005 11:35									#23
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Try this. Edit: I have the real solution, that actually works, on the bottom. Pre doesn't do squat, apparently.

(Un-pre'd text)
I like to usesigns too. But, I can use them wherever I want... because I know the magic of < pre > !

(Pre'd text)

 I like to usesigns too.  But, I can use them wherever I want... because I know the magic of < pre >!!!

The < pre > tag is 'preformatted' text, similar to the VB code [ code ] for HTML.



edit: BAH! VB code is mucking with HTML code. I'm pretty sure < pre > is the code to do that, normally. But i'm checking.

Some other special characters btw, since that's sort of related to this:

http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonke...ial_characters/

not only > but also ♠ etc.

Re-edit for TRUTH!: Pre apparently doesn't do what < xmp > used to do - which is preserve every single character. My fault for learning HTML back in the Mosaic days and not having used it much recently

I like to use<signs in text. Sometimes>signs too. But, I can use them wherever I want... because I know the magic of < pre > !<br />

Not sure if < xmp > still works in browsers or not - but it might

One other thing though, it only is interpreted as a character iff it is immediately appended by a nonwhitespace character. IE, < 5 is fine as long as it's not <5 > (that's < then 5 with no space in between).



Rereedit: < xmp > seems to work fine, in FF1.06 ... There ya go.

Last edited by snoopy369 on 28-07-2005 at 11:48

	28-07-2005 13:21									#24
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Can't you all just say less than?

	28-07-2005 16:27									#26
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quote: Originally posted by DrSpike Can't you all just say less than?

Or pwns?
JohnT > Dis = JohnT pwns Dis.

	28-07-2005 20:41									#27
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What's the less than version?

Dis snwp JohnT

?

	28-07-2005 20:41									#28
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this thread is fascinatingly spammy...

	28-07-2005 22:46									#29
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quote: Originally posted by JohnT Now why would I want to do that when the actual symbols are right on my keyboard? Computer Sense < Common Sense.

Because we are allowed to post HTML code. If we were not allowed to post HTML code, your way would work too. However, HTML reserves three characters for its own purposes:
> &gt;
< &lt;
& &amp;

BTW, you do need the semicolons even if you can get away without them in some circumstances.

	30-07-2005 00:45									#30
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