HTML noob question

[ColKurtz]

I have very little experience with HTML, just working from an existing template. I'm trying to write instructions for fellow html-challenged colleagues as to how to update an existing web teamroom. I have made a template that they can just copy/paste, and fill in their link and text description. But since the text is an actual HTML command, the webserver treats it as such and does not quote the command itself.

(*after previewing, HTML is picking it up here, too. Replaced < and > with [ and ] for example)

For example, the template is:

[p] [a href="ftp://(mysite)/files/PUT FILENAME HERE">PUT TEXT DESCRIPTION HERE [/a] [/p]

This ends up showing hyperlinked text "PUT TEXT DESCRIPTION HERE" assigned to bogus "PUT FILENAME HERE" link.

Any ideas how I could quote that, including the proper anchor and href tags.

TIA.

 

[kamper]

You mean you want the tags to show up in the page? Replace left angle brackets with < and right angle brackets with > Should do quotes as &quote; while you're at it. Now let's hope fusetalk doesn't bork this message...

Edit: yep it did. Why am I not surprised? I will spell this out literally: replace left angle brackets with the four character sequence: ampersand, lower case ell, lower case tee, semi-colon. Same for right angle brackets except that it's gt instead of lt. The quotes part above appears correctly.

 

[ColKurtz]

Perfect. Thank you!