"Paul N. Lee" wrote:
...I do my web pages the old fashioned way (by hand using Notepad),..
[bwg] And I thought *I* was macho because I do mine using vi (gvim, actually)!
For instance, when the greater-than sign "<" is used followed by an alphabetic character, most HTML browsers see that as the beginning of a tag. And if the word/s between the "<" and the ">" is not a valid tag, then is probably would not be displayed. I usually catch most of these, but it would be difficult for a script to handle all instances of such.
A script that converts straight text to HTML should convert *all* "<", ">" and "&" to their HTML equivalents (>, < and &), because those are not legal HTML characters. But if the input contains HTML, then I can see it getting pretty tough! -- |_ CJSonnack <Chris@Sonnack.com> _____________| How's my programming? | |_ http://www.Sonnack.com/ ___________________| Call: 1-800-DEV-NULL | |_____________________________________________|_______________________|