Fairy Tale of HTML - The Background
by patndoris on May.31, 2007,under Web Design
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In the same land lived a greedy little princess, who one day expected to be queen of HTMLand. She begged her father for a code to change the color of individual posts on her royal blog, “and it must have a solid border” she demanded. The king had many royal developers in his castle who struggled to write just what the evil little princess wanted. But alas, it was never good enough for her. She would simply stomp her feet and pout saying “I want a better easier way daddy!” What the royal coders had not discovered was the secret the beautiful sorceress already possessed – it’s much faster (and easier) to copy and past code someone else has written, than to write it yourself.
The king searched all over HTMLand for someone to produce the code to make his little girl happy, but none could be found. The psychotic little princess spent countless hours writing and revising her blogs (just like me. Or is it just me who does ? Never mind, it was a rhetorical question.) Then she would tic the box marked “View HTML Source” (hereinafter called “the box” as I’m too lazy to type it out.) Each time she did, she was fraught with panic! A plethora of code she had not typed would appear. She was sure this was some supernatural game of hide & seek the wizards had conjured up. The HTML code, all surrounded by angle brackets , would just materialize every time she ticked the box!
The king put out a reward. Any person who could produce the magical code would be next on the throne. THIS suited the sorceress perfectly. The king was very handsome and she would be quite happy to sit on the throne next to him. So she sat down and carefully lettered the following onto an ancient scroll.
<div align=center> <table cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=40 align=center bgColor=#ffffff border=10> <tbody> <tr> <td>
Beneath this simple but daunting string she instructed: “Scroll to the VERY top of the entry. Copy & paste the aforementioned code. Be sure it's the very first thing at the top of the page (or it ain’t gonna work.)” Further she wrote, bgColor=ffffff represents a hex value for a color. This will be the color of the background. Your spoiled daughter can find 500 colors to choose from (I DO hope that’s enough to satisfy her) at Cloford.com. Replace the "ffffff" with the code she fancies. As demanded by Her Little Royalness, the background has a border around it. “border=10” is the size. I’m sure this won’t always make her happy so she can make it larger or smaller by changing the number 10 to something else.” She signed it “Your Queen”
The princess followed the directions with the utmost care. When she was done she unchecked the box. With glee she hit preview, and was amazed at the untold beauty of her post. She changed the color over and over by ticking the box again, changing it as many times as she wanted (making sure the box was unchecked before she hit preview again) until it was a whiter shade of pale. Oops sorry! Procol Harum flashback (must have been all that magical mystical sorceress talk…ahem….anyway…..) The little princess found a hex value that suited her mood. (I'm feeling a bit blue today so I'm going to use #E6E6FA for my background, not that anyone will notice as you’re so wrapped up in this enthralling fairy tale….) When the little princess was done she hit save and published her royal blog entry. She marched proudly to her father and announced “a blog befitting of the future queen.”
Imagine her dismay! The celestial, stunningly beautiful sorceress (who also knew the secret to a very long and very happy life) was already ensconced quite comfortably on the throne (right next to the handsome king.) As time wore on, the little princess learned HTML code from the new queen. She learned to surf the net finding code to copy and paste. She learned to save her codes in a document for future reference (easy to get to!) Gradually she changed from a spoiled little girl into a perfect little princess. And they all blogged happily ever after.
THE END
Buried at PhotoCasket.com
(Originally posted on my Yahoo360 5/31/07)
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