code snippet

share your email address, but hide it from spammers

Type the following code in your “contact” page or wherever you want your contact information to appear on your website:

Copy the code below, paste it in a text file and edit the content in red:
(You can use any text editor, like the Notepad app in Windows.)

<!– Begin

// NOTE: If you use a ‘ add a slash before it like this \’
// NOTE: to turn any code into a comment, type two forward slashes //
in front of the line of code
// NOTE: I left the css code in, but you would need to create it in your own style sheet

document.write(‘’);

document.write(‘Your Name Here‘);

document.write(‘ ’);

document.write(‘10901 Your Street ’);

document.write(‘City, ST 12345 ’);

document.write(‘PHONE: (555) 555-5555 ’);

//document.write(‘ ’);

document.write(‘EMAIL: <A HREF=”mailto:yourown@emailaddress.com” class=”link”>yourown@emailaddress.com</a> ’);

// End –>

Name the text file “phone.js” and save it in the same folder as the file containing the first code.

Now, your email isn’t underlying text that’s easily found by scammers and spammers, it’s buried in code. The downside is that anyone who’s not running javascript can’t see your content – rare, but possible.

Caveat: If your website is hosted on WordPress.com, they don’t allow javascript, so this code won’t work for your site.

(code snippet credit allwebcodesign.com)

html: prevent line break after text link

The problem:
Creating a text link seemingly inserts a line break and causes the text following the link to wrap to the next line. Notice the second paragraph is not a link – and it doesn’t wrap.

This is what the original code looks like:

To prevent the text from wrapping/inserting a line break, add an inline property to your anchor tag.

Here’s what the inline property looks like:

And here’s the result:
I know the font size of the link is slightly larger than the paragraph text. I’ll be fixing that next.

html lists: indent spacing and change bullet styles

Working on my website recently and created a multi-level unordered list. The spacing of the second level indent was much more than I needed and I wasn’t loving the fact that the bullets were the same for both levels.

I found code to solve both those problems, so as usual, I’m posting it here for my future reference and, hopefully, to help someone else looking to solve the same problems.

I changed the second level bullet style to square and reduced the second level indent to 15px. Here’s a screen shot of my final list, followed by the code snippets I used:

Continue reading “html lists: indent spacing and change bullet styles”

html: add a mouse hover “tooltip” to a link.

Here’s a little code snippet you can add to a link so that when someone hovers their mouse over the link, a “tooltip” is displayed, giving them more information. In the example shown below, the image of Dorothy looking out her window is a link to download an audio clip of the theme of the Wicked Witch. The tooltip I added displays the target post’s title “free ringtone: wicked witch of the west” when the mouse hovers over the image.

A simple way to add a tooltip to an image link is to add the following code immediately following the link target:

For an example of how this was used in the image above, check out the sample code below.
The tooltip code appears highlighted on line 4:

<a href="https://pragmaticcomputing.wordpress.com/
2016/08/24/html-add-a-mouse-hover-tooltip-to-a-link/
wordpress-post-displaytooltiponhover/">
<span title="free ringtone: wicked witch of the west">
<img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-685"
style="border: 1px solid #000000;"
src="https://pragmaticcomputing.files.wordpress.com/
2016/10/wordpress-post-displaytooltiponhover.png?
w=474" width="474" height="700" /></span></a>

As you might expect, the tooltip code isn’t limited for use with an image link. It can also be used with a text link, again, just by adding it immediately following the link target and before the </a>
(hover over the following text to view the tooltip)

Wicked Witch of the West Theme Song

Here’s what the code from the above text link looks like:

<a href="https://pragmaticcomputing.wordpress.com/
2016/08/24/html-add-a-mouse-hover-tooltip-to-a-link/
wordpress-post-displaytooltiponhover/">
<span title="free ringtone: wicked witch of the west">Wicked Witch of the West Theme Song
</a>

To add a tooltip to plain text, it’s even simpler:

Text to be hovered over.

css margins.

Need a code snippet for your style sheet?

Below are four options for setting the top, bottom, left and right margins:

margin:10px 40px 25px 90px;

top margin is 10px
right margin is 40px
bottom margin is 25px
left margin is 90px

Continue reading “css margins.”

(code snippet credit allwebcodesign.com)

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