I would like to know if it is possible to create a link to a specific span in someone else's page. For putting on a website or blog one might create for themselves, or even a local page one uses to put links to something interesting they found maybe.To be more clear, I want the link this way so that when someone clicks on the link, it goes to a specific location on the page, mostly for a long page where you want someone to go directly to the relevant information - when that part of the page doesn't have an anchor element you can make use of. I am using Wikipedia as an example, even though it might not be the best example, because I know Wiki uses it's own way of doing certain things. Say you wanted to link to the Wiki page "List of fallacies" and the span for the sublist titled "Red herring fallacies".
The page link is :
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies"
Using Inspect Element, I got this for span :
<span class="mw-headline" id="Red_herring_fallacies">Red herring fallacies</span>
I tried to combine them like this :
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies<span class="mw-headline" id="Red_herring_fallacies">Red herring fallacies</span>">Red
herring logic fallacies list</a>
I am just wondering; am I a) doing it incorrectly for just using HTML, b) it can be done, but you have to use additional assets (CSS, JavaScript, etc), or c) it isn't possible to do at all?
I would like to do it using just HTML if possible, but if that is not possible, then I would appreciate it if someone can tell me how you might do it some other way - if it isn't impossible altogether. Thanks
Edit: My page is marked as a duplicate of answers to an earlier question, and from looking at the page it appears that this IS true. But I think my question heading itself was more clear to a beginner without much knowledge of advanced topics in creating webpages. Thanks for all of the help, and if the moderator believes my point is not relevant then please feel free to do whatever you do with duplicate questions.
you are missing a close "> just before the span started and you are missing the anchor in your href like this #Red_herring_fallacies, because span has that ID
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies#Red_herring_fallacies">
<span class="mw-headline" id="Red_herring_fallacies">Red herring fallacies</span>
Redherring logic fallacies list
</a>
The span has an ID. Use that as the parameter in your URL in the link.
Red herring logic fallacies list
To target an id you must add #theId at the end of your url.
The result will look ass follow:
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies#Red_herring_fallacies">
Red herring logic fallacies list
</a>
I'm trying Slim templates in a new project (after using Haml for quite a while). While overall experience is great, I've run into a problem with spaces being always inserted around tags which normally use display: block
Say,
ul.ampm
li.am am
li.pm pm
generates
<ul class="ampm">
<li class="am">
am
</li>
<li class="pm">
pm
</li>
</ul>
while
.ampm
span.am am
span.pm pm
generates
<div class="ampm">
<span class="am">am</span></span class="pm">pm</span>
</div>
Normally it's not a big issue, but we use responsive layouts which applies display: inline-block to li tags; obviously, having whitespace between them breaks the layout.
I'm aware of
Slim::Engine.options[:pretty] = true
option (and turning it on does remove the offending whitespace), but it makes all generated source hard to read, not just the part I'd like to fix.
< and > in Slim seem to do the opposite to what I need - they're intended to be used for adding whitespace around inline tags.
So...
is it possible to remove whitespace around a single block tag in Slim similar to HAML whitespace eaters? (Without the impact of turning off the pretty option, that is)
if not, is it a fundamental Slim restriction ("by design") or something which is on the roadmap and would be potentially implemented in the future?
Much appreciated.
I worked around this by reverting back to inline HTML in the critical places. For me, it was adding a collection of options to a select:
select
- my_collection.each do |item|
<option value="#{item.id}">#{item.name}</option>
I can put up with this in the few cases where it really matters (as it did for me in the option elements). But if you need better whitespacing throughout your code, I think you're out of luck.
is it a fundamental Slim restriction ("by design") or something which is on the roadmap and would be potentially implemented in the future?
I'm going to go with "no" for both of those. It looks like the Slim team just implemented a naive algorithm and didn't look back. Case in point, this quote from the GitHub issue tracker:
The pretty renderer is not working well under some circumstances since Slim's focus lies on performance. If you have time please provide patches for the pretty renderer of the temple project https://github.com/judofyr/temple and also provide test cases.
I've build a page with a form and for some reason my button for the form and my footer element is not showing up on the page.
I have added a link so you can check out my code. And I know its a HOT MESS! so if you can give me any tips on the css and html please feel free to let me know.
http://jsfiddle.net/jeramiewinchell/j6n0w1tj/
enter code here
Fair point in the edit. I said it was a mess without giving anything positive.
Here are some tips that could improve the HTML (with links for reference):
You should specify a doctype (e.g.: <!doctype html>) instead of having an empty <!DOCTYPE> tag.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/syntax.html#doctype-syntax
It would be nice to have a <html> wrapping everything, and a <head> wrapping the title and links. I'm not clear if it's technically valid not to have them (the W3C HTML validator will not validate a page without a <head> although it will validate without the <html>), but it's nice and it will help keep things organized.
The links should have a type indicating the mime type (in this case type="text/css").
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_link.asp
Closing empty elements (e.g.: img, link, input) is not mandatory in HTML5, but it is in XHTML. Depending on the doctype that you choose, you should close them accordingly. Using /> at the end is valid for both HTML5 and XHTML, so you may want to consider it.
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/201005/void_empty_elements_and_self-closing_start_tags_in_html/
Don't nest <p> tags. Paragraphs are block elements that should contain only phrasing content (= not block/paragraph elements). How to fix it: replace <p class="site_section1"> with a <div class="site_section1">.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/grouping-content.html#the-p-element
Always close the block tags that you open. For example, you never close the <p class="site_section1"> (altough as I said in the previous point, you should making it a <div>... and then close it). The result in the browser may be unpredictable.
I mentioned in my comment above (sorry, I don't know the name in English), you should avoid crossed tags/nesting of tags. This is incorrect: <label>...<select></label>...</select>, it should be <label>...</label><select>...</select>.
Again, not mandatory but it could be nice to set a value attribute in the <option> tags. If you don't specify a value, the value sent will be the content inside between the <option> tags (that may be what you want in this case).
Don't forget all the code and to close the tags correctly! Things like this: <button type="submit">Save</buttons </div> can have disastrous results (although it looks more of a typo to me).
Don't close tags twice (e.g.: you have </body> twice)
And for the CSS (also with some links for reference):
Avoid unnecessary styling. E.g.: border-radius:0px is unnecessary because 0 is the default value for border-radius (unless you have defined some previous style and you want to overwrite it).
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_border-radius.asp
Specifying units is required for values different than 0. E.g.: margin-left:15 is that 15 in px or em?
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#length-units
The units are optional when the value is 0. Some people find it more readable and better because it is shorter; I personally like them. Your call, but always:
Be consistent: if you omit the units for a zero value, do it in all your definitions. It looks awkward to me to see a padding:0 (without units) next to a margin:0px. It will help you read and maintain the code later.
You could merge many styles together. For example: .zonelist23, .zonelist24, and .zonelist25 are the same, you could define one style only (e.g.: .zonelist_bml30) or set all of them together: .zonelist23, .zonelist24, .zonelist25 { ... }
Not mandatory, but nice: The font-family tag should have several names as a "fallback" system. That way, if the browser does not support the first font, it will go to the next and so on.
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_font.asp
Just out of curiosity: did you meant to put in the stylesheet .header or is it header? I personally try to avoid classes/ids with the same name as a tag to keep the code easier to understand, but that's a personal choice. As far as I know there's nothing against naming a class like a tag.
One way of having fun and learning (you may now think that I have a strange way of having fun and learning):
Go to the W3C HTML Validator.
Click on the the "validate by direct input" tab.
Copy your code in the box.
Click on the "Validate" button.
View the first error, and read the comments (visit the links for reference).
Fix the code according to what you've read.
Click on the "Revalidate" button.
Repeat steps 5-7 until no errors are found.
(You can do the same with the CSS in the W3C CSS Validator)
Please see this fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/j6n0w1tj/1/
I have corrected your code.
Kindly follow the steps mentioned by #monty82, who has given an excellent explanation on how to proceed with your code.
Wrong html:
<label>..<select></Label><option></option></select>
Correct html
<label>..</label><select><option></option></select>
Tags like <input>,<br> are self closing tags,close it like <input
type="radio"/> and <br/> not as </br>.
Please make sure whether your opening and closing tags match
I have tried countless plugins, codyfying HTML with escape keys, and my blood is beginning to boil. Switching between Visual and HTML mode is actually changing my content, ie destroying it!!!
OK, i figured out what to do.
First go into visual mode.
Select Preformatted in the formatting drop down. A little grey box is created.
Inside the grey box, copy and paste your raw HTML.
Save it and switch from visual to HTML views a few times. There should be no mangling.
IT IS ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL that you paste into visual tab, instead of in the text tab, or it will get stuffed up completely (very unintuitive. You would think it would work the other way araound).
Wordpress does a strange thing where if you switch between visual and "text" mode (HTML mode was renamed in 3.5 update) it strips any tags that appear empty which often times may not be. This might be what you are experiencing if I am understanding the problem correctly.
If you are just trying to display code on your website you should be able to wrap the code like this:
<code><p>Example code post</p></code>
This is laid out in these guidelines here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Code_in_Your_Posts
If it is a block of code that needs to not wrap you could also use the "pre" tag like so:
<pre><code><p>Example code post</p></code></pre>
This is described very well here: <code> vs <pre> vs <samp> for inline and block code snippets
Yes, it is absolutely possible. You can follow any of the above mentioned methods. I prefer the following way.
First of all, decode the HTML code using online html decoder. You can find any on google. Then, You can paste the decoded code on your post. The benefit of this method is that, your indentation won't be lost.
Decoded Code
Rendered View File
Hope, it helps future reader to find a way.
Wordpress is very buggy. It took me a long time to finally succeed. For my Wordpress.org installed on my pc I tried: go to visual mode, add pre-formatted text block, copy/paste decoded or encoded. I tried :
<pre><code><p>Example code post</p></code></pre>
That did not work.
The only way it works for me is:
Go to visual, instead of adding a pre-formatted text block I create a paragraph text block, copy/paste the encoded HTMl and then convert it to preformat.
Hope that helps.
Perhaps, You should try out this plugin
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/insert-html-snippet/
Hope this helps!
One way to do is to make the code commented. Something like,
<!--div>
<md-divider class="org__meta-divider md-soc-theme"></md-divider>
<h4 class="org__meta-heading">Technologies</h4>
<ul layout="" layout-wrap="" class="org__tag-container layout-wrap layout-row">
<li class="organization__tag organization__tag--technology">web services</li>
</ul>
</div-->
instead of
<div>
<md-divider class="org__meta-divider md-soc-theme"></md-divider>
<h4 class="org__meta-heading">Technologies</h4>
<ul layout="" layout-wrap="" class="org__tag-container layout-wrap layout-row">
<li class="organization__tag organization__tag--technology">web services</li>
</ul>
</div>
I want to create something like
<menu>
<lunch>
<dish>aaa</dish>
<dish>bbb</dish>
</lunch>
<dinner>
<dish>ccc</dish>
</dinner>
</menu>
Can it be done in HTML5?
I know I can do it with
<ul id="menu">
<li>
<ul id="lunch">
<li class="dish">aaa</li>
<li class="dish">bbb</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<ul id="dinner">
<li class="dish">ccc</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
but it is so much less readable :(
You can use custom tags in browsers, although they won’t be HTML5 (see Are custom elements valid HTML5? and the HTML5 spec).
Let's assume you want to use a custom tag element called <stack>. Here's what you should do...
STEP 1
Normalize its attributes in your CSS Stylesheet (think css reset) -
Example:
stack{display:block;margin:0;padding:0;border:0; ... }
STEP 2
To get it to work in old versions of Internet Explorer, you need to append this script to the head (Important if you need it to work in older versions of IE!):
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script> document.createElement("stack"); </script>
<![endif]-->
Then you can use your custom tag freely.
<stack>Overflow</stack>
Feel free to set attributes as well...
<stack id="st2" class="nice"> hello </stack>
I'm not so sure about these answers. As I've just read:
"CUSTOM TAGS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ALLOWED IN HTML."
http://www.crockford.com/html/
The point here being, that HTML was based on SGML. Unlike XML with its doctypes and schemas, HTML does not become invalid if a browser doesn't know a tag or two. Think of <marquee>. This has not been in the official standard. So while using it made your HTML page "officially unapproved", it didn't break the page either.
Then there is <keygen>, which was Netscape-specific, forgotten in HTML4 and rediscovered and now specified in HTML5.
And also we have custom tag attributes now, like data-XyZzz="..." allowed on all HTML5 tags.
So, while you shouldn't invent a whole custom unspecified markup salad of your own, it's not exactly forbidden to have custom tags in HTML. That is however, unless you want to send it with an +xml Content-Type or embed other XML namespaces, like SVG or MathML. This applies only to SGML-confined HTML.
I just want to add to the previous answers that there is a meaning to use only two-words tags for custom elements.
They should never be standardised.
For example, you want to use the tag <icon>, because you don't like <img>, and you don't like <i> neither...
Well, keep in mind that you're not the only one. Maybe in the future, w3c and/or browsers will specify/implement this tag.
At this time, browsers will probably implements native style for this tag and your website's design may break.
So I'm suggesting to use (according to this example) <img-icon>.
As a matter of fact, the tag <menu> is well defined ie not so used, but defined. It should contain <menuitem> which behave like <li>.
As Michael suggested in the comments, what you want to do is quite possible, but your nomenclature is wrong. You aren't "adding tags to HTML 5," you are creating a new XML document type with your own tags.
I did this for some projects at my last job. Some practical advice:
When you say you want to "add these to HTML 5," I assume what you really mean is that you want the pages to display correctly in a modern browser, without having to do a lot of work on the server side. This can be accomplished by inserting a "stylesheet processing instruction" at the top of the xml file, like <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="menu.xsl"?>. Replace "menu.xsl" with the path to the XSL stylesheet that you create to convert your custom tags into HTML.
Caveats: Your file must be a well-formed XML document, complete with XML header <xml version="1.0">. XML is pickier than HTML about things like mismatched tags. Also, unlike HTML, tags are case-sensitive. You must also make sure that the web server is sending the files with the appropriate mime type "application/xml". Often the web server will be configured to do this automatically if the file extension is ".xml", but check.
Big Caveat: Finally, using the browsers' automatic XSL transformation, as I've described, is really best only for debugging and for limited applications where you have a lot of control. I used it successfully in setting up a simple intranet at my last employer, that was accessed only by a few dozen people at most. Not all browsers support XSL, and those that do don't have completely compatible implementations. So if your pages are to be released into the "wild," it's best to transform them all into HTML on the server side, which can be done with a command line tool, or with a button in many XML editors.
Creating your own tag names in HTML is not possible / not valid. That's what XML, SGML and other general markup languages are for.
What you probably want is
<div id="menu">
<div id="lunch">
<span class="dish">aaa</span>
<span class="dish">bbb</span>
</div>
<div id="dinner">
<span class="dish">ccc</span>
</div>
</div>
Or instead of <div/> and <span/> something like <ul/> and <li/>.
In order to make it look and function right, just hook up some CSS and Javascript.
Custom tags can be used in Safari, Chrome, Opera, and Firefox, at least as far as using them in place of "class=..." goes.
green {color: green} in css works for
<green>This is some text.</green>
<head>
<lunch>
<style type="text/css">
lunch{
color:blue;
font-size:32px;
}
</style>
</lunch>
</head>
<body>
<lunch>
This is how you create custom tags like what he is asking for its very simple just do what i wrote it works yeah no js or convoluted work arounds needed this lets you do exactly what he wrote.
</lunch>
</body>
For embedding metadata, you could try using HTML microdata, but it's even more verbose than using class names.
<div itemscope>
<p>My name is <span itemprop="name">Elizabeth</span>.</p>
</div>
<div itemscope>
<p>My name is <span itemprop="name">Daniel</span>.</p>
</div>
Besides writing an XSL stylesheet, as I described earlier, there is another approach, at least if you are certain that Firefox or another full-fledged XML browser will be used (i.e., NOT Internet Explorer). Skip the XSL transform, and write a complete CSS stylesheet that tells the browser how to format the XML directly. The upside here is that you wouldn't have to learn XSL, which many people find to be a difficult and counterintuitive language. The downside is that your CSS will have to specify the styling very completely, including what are block nodes, what are inlines, etc. Usually, when writing CSS, you can assume that the browser "knows" that <em>, for instance, is an inline node, but it won't have any idea what to do with <dish>.
Finally, its been a few years since I tried this, but my recollection is that IE (at least a few versions back) refused to apply CSS stylesheets directly to XML documents.
The point of HTML is that the tags included in the language have an agreed meaning, that everyone in the world can use and base decisions on - like default styling, or making links clickable, or submitting a form when you click on an <input type="submit">.
Made-up tags like yours are great for humans (because we can learn English and thus know, or at least guess, what your tags mean), but not so good for machines.
Polymer or X-tags allow you to build your own html tags. It is based on native browser's "shadow DOM".
In some circumstances, it may look like creating your own tag names just works fine.
However, this is just your browser's error handling routines at work. And the problem is, different browsers have different error handling routines!
See this example.
The first line contains two made-up elements, what and ever, and they get treated differently by different browsers. The text comes out red in IE11 and Edge, but black in other browsers.
For comparison, the second line is similar, except it contains only valid HTML elements, and it will therefore look the same in all browsers.
body {color:black; background:white;} /* reset */
what, ever:nth-of-type(2) {color:red}
code, span:nth-of-type(2) {color:red}
<p><what></what> <ever>test</ever></p>
<p><code></code> <span>test</span></p>
Another problem with made-up elements is that you won't know what the future holds. If you created a website a couple of years ago with tag names like picture, dialog, details, slot, template etc, expecting them to behave like spans, are you in trouble now!
This is not an option in any HTML specification :)
You can probably do what you want with <div> elements and classes, from the question I'm not sure exactly what you're after, but no, creating your own tags is not an option.
As Nick said, custom tags are not supported by any version of HTML.
But, it won't give any error if you use such markup in your HTML.
It seems like you want to create a list. You can use unordered list <ul> to create the rool elements, and use the <li> tag for the items underneath.
If that's not what you want to achieve, please specify exactly what you want. We can come up with an answer then.
You can add custom attribute through HTML 5 data- Attributes.
For example: Message
That is valid for HTML 5. See http://ejohn.org/blog/html-5-data-attributes/ to get details.
You can just do some custom css styling, this will create a tag that will make the background color red:
redback {background-color:red;}
<redback>This is red</redback>
you can use this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>MyExample</title>
<style>
bloodred {color: red;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<bloodred>
this is BLOODRED (not to scare you)
</bloodred>
</body>
<script>
var btn = document.createElement("BLOODRED")
</script>
</html>
I found this article on creating custom HTML tags and instantiating them. It simplifies the process and breaks it down into terms anyone can understand and utilize immediately -- but I'm not entirely sure the code samples it contains are valid in all browsers, so caveat emptor and test thoroughly. Nevertheless, it's a great introduction to the subject to get started.
Custom Elements : Defining new elements in HTML