Thanks Tom and Jo Ann, very good advice.

I too, remember reading the post on the missing white space in HTML after closing and re-opening.

But this is not my problem.

The code that I put BETWEEN the [[[ and ]]] works ok. The problem is that all the text that I entered AFTER the HTML code is all smooshed together; the blank line between paragraphs has been removed and you cannot put it back in no matter how hard you try!! It is as though ALL the text is thinking that it is part of the HTML code.

Tom, when you say:

Do you not have to enter those (<p>) inbetween HTML code brackets ([[[ ]]])?? Because if you do, how is that going to help when it is the paragraphs that are plain text entered with the text editor, not the HTML editor??

Thanks guys for your help. I know what Scott says about going to the internet or wherever and LEARN html, but learning another language is not what I want to do. I know I need to learn a few basics and I hope to do that with the help of this forum (that is the purpose of a forum, right?). Once I get this site up and running, I will never use HTML again, for the most part. Why take an online course and spend months learning something I will never use again.

Thanks very much, your help is greatly appreciated

All the html tool does is add the brackets to whatever you enter into the box. It's not magical and you don't have to use it. You can type the brackets into text area manually to insert html.

Anytime you want anything to display as html instead of plain text on the screen, enclose the tags with brackets [[[ ]]].


So, yes. Enclose the html tags with brackets.

This is actually the way I did the HTML for the image. I did not use the HTML editor. Do you suppose this may have created the problem some how? By not using the HTML editor?

I think the only thing left to do is deleted the whole page and start over. First I will try Tom's solution with the <p> thing!!

No.

Good.

I was able to put in the following: [[[<p><br />]]] at the end of each paragraph and it fixed the problem.

It is just mind boggling to me that I have to put HTML code in a line of text from a text editor, not an HTML editor, to get it to do something when nowhere else on my website do I have to do that.

Thank you so much Tom, you are a life saver.

I have one more question. I would like to put two different pictures side by side, what do I need to add to this string of code to accomplish that?

[[[<div><h2>Bonsai Record Keeper</h2><img border="0" src="E:\WebPage\images\RecKeeper4.jpg" alt="Bonsai Record Keeper" width="200" height="300"/></div><br />]]]


Thanks again guys

&nbsp; - inserts an empty space. Remove or add more as you wish.

Your the greatest Tom, I don't care what Scott says, thank you

Steve

Everything is now perfect when viewed with IE, but oh what a mess when viewed with Fire Fox. There are no pictures whatsoever that I just added with the above code, just the alternate text that was used to describe each picture. Not even a box as a place holder.

I remember a thread by Marilyn (could not find it) where she said she was having problems with the background color of her page description boxes with Fire Fox. I am having the same problem. It shows white instead of blue.

What are you supposed to do when this happens? It is just simple HTML code used to put the pictures in. I thought FF was supposed to be better than IE?

Mods, feel free to break this out into another thread. I was not sure where to put it since the above HTML code is where the problem is.

Can you provide a link to the page where you are having this problem? Links are always good to share.

I don't have the host server yet but is there a way I can attach the file here? That you could open in your SCCP? No because you don't have the pics on your computer.

Tell you what, I will sign up for a host tomorrow and put up a link here then.