h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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Whoa thats pretty neat...

Why, thanks very much!

I don't understand any of this stuff, what with and such, is there a place where I could learn it?

STYLE is the way something looks. You can only use it inside the tags in H2G2 (ie: STYLE=" ... "), as it's disabled as a stylesheet (... or .CSS documents).

Basically use it like this: Theres a list of attributes and values at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1

and group text together: it's used to move lumps of text about. You can give a border to DIV or SPAN. DIV uses the align="right" attribute to shove the text to the right (you can also do this using style="text-align: right").

Oo VERY useful link, thanks

All I know about is that it can put text that floats above everything else... I don't know how, but, ...

Yes, that's
postition: absolute;
to make is seperate from text
top: 0px; left: 0px;
to put it at the corner of the page, and
z-order: 39413; (or any positive number)
to make sure it goes in front of the text. You'll probabley also want background: window; (window is the standard colour of the window, ie: white) or another colour to make sure the background isn't see-through, and some other stuff to make it look better.

what does the x-index;alpha and opacity100 do?

and final question, how do you make a bunch of things jsut stack on top of each other instead of lining up...

I don't know all of them. Alpha may be something for truetype colours (alpha blending?) opancity100 may be to set the background colout to some kind of transparency or something, perhaps

To stack items on top of each other, like - and | makes +:
Give them the same top: and left: things, making sure you have position: absolute in there. Give the things you want at the top a larger z-index value.

To stack things up like
1 4
2 6
3 6
Use a table (<./>GuideML-TABLE</.&gt

Here may be a good point to plug my website:
http://www.geocities.com/compunach/mygon/

oh thats what z-index is...
doesn't haveing the same top left thingys, with position;absolute, stick it up at the top of the screen?
I was wondering about this when looking at Traveler in Time's text art...

you made that mygon thing?

You don't need to use top: 0px, you can specify a number of pixels down you weant to go (eg: top: 100px). You can also use percent of browser window, so top: 50% will put the top 50% of the way down the screen. You can also use bottom: 0px and right: 0px.

Er, yes I did make that. Can you get it to work? (A/D and Left/Right, click on Bot to make computer, F1=Help).

does position:rlative get it to stay where it is?

Yeah I got the game to work... the way the little thing moves is weird if I'm bot1 I won... I also tried playing both bots at once, it was pretty hard...

It should do, and you can use negatives for that.

so to stack stuff in one place, you use position relative and increasing z index values... that is for some resaon incredibly useful...


font-size:100px makes it nice and big if so whats the guideml number for that, roughly, if youy know (<FONT SIZE="?"&gt

I learned and mastered guideml but it can't do everything I want!

If I remember rightly:

The user can change these from the View menu:
<FONT SIZE="1" is style="font-size: x-small"
2 small
3 medium
4 large
5 x-large
6 xx-large
There's also xx-small

Or you can say "stuff the user, I want it this size":
style="font-size: 14pt" makes it 14pt (like in Word)

Just out of curiousity, do you, by any chance ,now how Traveler in TIme manages to stay online nearly 24/7, and creates hundreds of guideml pages? I can't figure out how *anybody* could do it!??

The clue may be in the name, Traveler in Time....

he<?> says he tries to stay on 42 hours a day... but I know that he doesn't sign off usually, well, ever...

Well, why go through the SSO Login?

BTW - I've found the list of links you can make blue: it's at <./>NamedEntries</.>

I've gotten there before in ne way or another...

He did sign off during the SSO change, tehre's a journal entry about it, sorta...

I'm trying to make something that isn't working...
it has alternating colors for a background, in s, 12 pixles wide, and has 4 enlarged smileys that are *supposed* to jsut ignore the borders of the ... but won't... any idea how to fix that?