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Cool Things You Can Do With HTML In Chatrooms
These things use HTML, which all chat rooms do not use. Most web
chats do, but most Java-based and instant messaging chats do not. Still
other chat rooms require extra
brackets. If these do not work, try replacing every < with << and every > with >>.
Changing Text Size
There are two ways to change the size of the text in chatrooms that support HTML. The first way is to put what is considered as a header tag in front of your message. It looks like this: <H1> The number inside the tag can be anything from 1 to 6 where 1 is the biggest. The second way is to use the font tag. It looks like this: <font size=5>, where the number can be anywhere from 1 to 40.
Changing Text Color
To change the color of text use the font tag. It looks like this: <font color=red> Red can be replaced with almost any color of your choice.
Text Formatting
You can also make your text bold, italic, blinky, or typewriter (courier).
bold - <b>Bold Text</b>
italic - <i>Italic Text</i>
blinky - <blink></blink>
typewriter - <tt>Typewriter Text</tt>
Horizontal Lines
You can make a horizontal rule going across the screen too. Like this:
To make it, type <hr>
Adding Links
You can link to any page on the web with the a href tag. It looks like this: <a href=http://www.siteaddress.com>Link Name</a> Simply replace http://www.siteadress.com with the URL of the site you want to link to, and put it's name in where it says Link Name
Using Graphics
To show a graphic, you need to know its location, or URL. To find this out, right-click (or click and hold down for Mac users) and choose Copy Image Location from the pop-up menu. You now have the URL of the image in your clipboard for easy access. Now it is time to use the img src tag. It looks like this: <img src=http://www.siteaddress.com/picture.gif> Simply paste the Image URL where it says http://www.siteadress.com , and you have yourself a picture. For some good (some animated pictures to use, check out our picture library.
Using Forms To Allow People To Send Email To You
Just copy this HTML code into the chatroom message box and replace "username@server.com" with your email address. This way anyone can send email to you by typing in the box and pressing the send button.
<FORM ACTION="mailto:username@server.com" METHOD=POST>
<p><PRE><h3>Type Message In This Box -
<TEXTAREA NAME="Message" ROWS=8 COLS=50>
</TEXTAREA>
<INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="SEND">
</FORM>
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