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

How d'you do footnotes? If it's something to do with html, then please can you put the little bit of code that it requires in you reply, pleasy?

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If you want to do footnotesAnd who wouldn't? then try this.

Thanks man. I don't think that html works in the forums, btw.

I know HTML doesn't work in forums (I wrote it that way) - I was demonstrating how the FOOTNOTE tag is used, so it wouldn't have helped you if it had been translated, would it?

I'm sorry, I have a habit of naturally assuming that people are stupid because I'm permanently surrounded my gibbering idiots, imbeciles, lunatics and 'Steps' fans. I'm sure you get my meaning. No offence, I'm not as stupid as that last message makes me sound, it was just a misunderstanding.

er. rather think i'm too stupid to have been here. my apologies. on the plus side, i'm not a steps fan, but i think thats due to the fact that i have no friggin clue as to what it is!

You fortunate lady. Steps are a teenybopper 'band', of the sickeningly perfect smile genus. That's all you need to know.

scary stuff!!but it could be worse you might have to suffer the backstreet boys.

All teenybiopper bands are classless, styleless and brainless. And that's my final word on the subject.

i'll bet it isn't.

Footnotes are great, but it can be a bit distracting if you have to keep scrolling up and down a long entry to check them. How about adding a feature that takes you directly to a footnote when you click on the corresponding superscripted number. Then you could just use your browser's "back" button to return to the correct place in the text. Alternatively, the footnotes could be placed with the crossreferences in the sidebar.

Damn right, actually... there's a new batch of them been out recently... Lolly, the new Steps track, and that blonde American bitch who's just reached number one. We don't need any more dense blonde Americans in our charts: we have enough crap singers as it is.

sounds like a good idea, as long as it's not implemented by a dense blonde american singer. ( i think, rather unclear on the whole thing being a blond myself)

Weird little blast from the past this is... I bet most of these people were on dial-up. Remember that?

I certainly remember dialling up, opening all the threads I wanted to look at, stopping the connection, reading them all, and dialling up again to reply.

It was a bit tiresome. We got broadband a couple of months later.

Mol

Ah, so I'm not the only crazy archaeologist on hootoo?

TRiG.