HTML Newsletter

[Daniel]

So, I just started writing a newsletter for a local veterans initative, and I'm trying to be high speed. Anyone know of any good sites where I can getom general HTML stuff, or in particular does anyone know how I do the thing where it has the beginning of a paragraph visible initially, and when you click the last word or link the rest of the story pops up?

Thanks.

[Stanley Burrell]

Are you trying to incorporate an image source or actual text-text.

If you save one of them funky Word text fonts as a JPEG/BMP/etc. with some 32-bit quality and your ISP host limits, just find out its (the "text picture's" address) and then wrap its image source with a a href.

That's what I would do since I'm not that HTML l33t.

[Celephais]

That's not something that's wrapped in a single tag method or the like. I wouldn't call it an advanced feature but there are several ways to do it. Link to another page with the rest of the article... write the rest of the article in a div or span tag and then use javascript to hide/show the article.

http://www.deadlylight.com/DeadlyLight/NewsLetter.html
go to that and view source, it'll give you an idea.

[Daniel]

Cool thanks. I'll fuck with that tonight. Do you know how I would make the click reference a particular point in the text, instead of the arbitrary click space it is on that page?

[Celephais]

... what the heck are you saying?

"Arbitrary click space it is on that page" ... what?

If you look at the source, you'll see that there is a span with an onclick event (anything in that span is what can be clicked). The there is a div with an ID of art1 (art1 is what is passed to the expand function), that is the text that shows up. so if you want to be able to click on the last word instead of "...", replace the "..." with the last word.

[Daniel]

Okay. Thanks. In the example it was like some random spot you had to click. Mah bad