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

Hi

I'm revamping A889194 and have come across some things in the existing gML that I don't understand. I haven't been able to find an explanation on any of the gML guide pages.

The first is trying to understand how the colour of the text has been created in the following. I've set the colour to red FF0000 but all that has done has changed the bullet points to red. I don't understand how the text colour is made to be turquiose.

I also don't understand what this is:
....

Here's the actual code that I have inherited. The only thing I have changed is the font colour, and I've put the whole block of code within a table tag.



Abbi Normal
Terri and Yoda (Yoda = cat)
Moose (me)
mrs the wife
Leopardskinfynn (Leo)
Lighthousegirl
Madame Kat
SMUDGER
Pedboy
Pyrotrope




Can anyone explain?


kea

The scope of your font tag is the list itself - hence why the bullet points (which are text characters) changed colour. However, the list items are links and links are pre-defined by the style sheet for the page to have their own colour (and most style changes from within pages are blocked). So you would need to put font statements round the text inside each of the links. The same problem applies to TABLEs. They come with some predefined styles for TH and TD (including links) and have to be overridden individually.

Adding target="_blank" to a link element tells browsers that a link should be opened in a new window.

See:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#h-6.16

Thanks!


I'll go have a play and see what I can do.


kea.

I forgot to answer the second part! The clue is that the tag *isn't* GuideML at all but real HTML. So the local GuideML manual isn't going to help much - and you've just been pointed at the site of the people who control the official manuals for the real thing.

You might be interested in making that list into a <./>GuideML-ITEM-LIST</.> gadget though...

Ok, so the tag is the HTML way of linking? And I could use the gML way instead?

I won't use the item list tag for the researcher names as the owners of the page want the names more visible, but I might use it for links to related h2 guide entries

I'll have a good look at Ion's link later. I suspect that Moose (who wrote the code I am working on) used HTML more than once. I guess anything that I can't find an explanation for in the gML clinic pages I can assume is HTML?


kea.

Probably - though there are also some "secret" bits of GuideML which are merely not listed in the official pages despite being used in them.