Judy Rutledge 2002

Assignments Page

Unacceptable Characters

Some characters do not behave reliably on the assignments page.

If you try to use the following characters on your Assignments page, you will probably have problems and lose some text or not be able to update.

    %  " "   [ ]    >   <   

If you need to emphasize text you can insert the following code around the word (or words)

 

example

result

italics            <i> ... </i>    

read <i>The Red Pony</i>        

read The Red Pony

bold              <b> ... </b>

<b>Test</b> on Chapter 4 Tuesday

Test on Chapter 4 Tuesday

line break      <br>

Come to my office <br> Mon. <br>Tue.

Come to my office

Mon.

Tue.

Quotations  &quot; ... &quot; &quot; Lab1 &quot; Lab1
     
If you use " " on your assignment page, please check the results page. You may not get the text you entered. Try using &guot.
 

Hyperlink on Assignments Page

Type the web address in quotes followed by the word(s) that will be show on the page for the link.

Example:

<a href= "http://faculty.musowls.org/RutledgeJ/histogram%20ex.htm" >Using Excel for a Histogram link</a>

The text "Using Excel for a Histogram" will appear on your assignments page as a hyperlink. When it is clicked the page http://faculty.musowls.org/RutledgeJ/histogram%20ex.htm will open

It will look like this      

                                      Using Excel for a Histogram

You can experiment with adding the following formatting elements.

Underlining  --  use  <u> </u>  as in the example below.  The spaces are for placement emphasis and are not necessary.

<a href= "http://faculty.musowls.org/RutledgeJ/histogram%20ex.htm" >   <u> Using Excel for a Histogram link</u>  </a>

gives you this

                                    Using Excel for a Histogram

Font color --  <font color=?>     </font>

? needs to be replaced with the characters for the font color. A couple are listed below.
Red = "#FF0000"

Blue = "#0000FF"

<font color="#FF0000" >    Text goes here    </font>      note these are zeros not Os

<a href= "http://faculty.musowls.org/RutledgeJ/histogram%20ex.htm" ><font color="#0000FF">    Using Excel for a Histogram link</font></a>

gives you this

                                 Using Excel for a Histogram

Putting It Together -- A Blue Underlined Link example is below.

<a href= "http://faculty.musowls.org/RutledgeJ/histogram%20ex.htm" ><u><font color="#0000FF"> Using Excel for a Histogram link</u></font></a>
 

gives you this

                               Using Excel for a Histogram

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