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A question for anybody familar with HTML coding.
« on: April 06, 2009, 03:12:49 AM »
My knowledge of it is minimal, here is my dilemma.

I have a very long post I need to copy and paste from one website to another, unfortunately when I made the post I used vB code to insert all the pictures. The website I want to copy to does not recognize/have vB.  It would be massively time consuming to go back and change each particular vB image code back to the normal HTML code.

Is there anyway I can change all the image codes in one easy swoop?
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Re: A question for anybody familar with HTML coding.
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2009, 10:18:01 AM »
Paste it into Word and do an edit/replace.
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Re: A question for anybody familar with HTML coding.
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2009, 10:32:48 AM »
Paste it into Word and do an edit/replace.

That'll work. Beware of Word tossing it's own formatting in if you try and copy it out. If you do find Word won't leave your text alone save it as a txt file, open it in Wordpad or somesuch and copy from there.

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Re: A question for anybody familar with HTML coding.
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2009, 10:39:42 AM »
Notepad.
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Re: A question for anybody familar with HTML coding.
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2009, 10:43:31 AM »
Notepad.

Yes.  This is better than Word because there's no annoying auto-correct feature like Word has (which would be a pain with something like HTML).
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Re: A question for anybody familar with HTML coding.
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2009, 10:45:42 AM »
Notepad.
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Re: A question for anybody familar with HTML coding.
« Reply #6 on: April 06, 2009, 04:37:47 PM »
If you want to quote one post, copy everything from the post you want to copy.

If you want to quote that post (to give someone credit for said post) open bracket [ quote ] close bracket (without spaces).

After you have [ quote] without spaces, paste in the thing that you copied that you want to quote.

So now it looks like

[ quote ]

some stuff from the other post.

Now, you need to end the quote after the post. 

[ /quote ] (without spaces)

Which is how you create:

Quote
My knowledge of it is minimal, here is my dilemma.

I have a very long post I need to copy and paste from one website to another, unfortunately when I made the post I used vB code to insert all the pictures. The website I want to copy to does not recognize/have vB.  It would be massively time consuming to go back and change each particular vB image code back to the normal HTML code.

Is there anyway I can change all the image codes in one easy swoop?


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Re: A question for anybody familar with HTML coding.
« Reply #7 on: April 06, 2009, 05:26:34 PM »
So there is no way other than replacing every individual image code? Even with the Find/Replace feature it would still take a very long time and that's what I am trying to avoid. There has to be a simpler way.

I have a buddy who does website design that I ran into the other day, we were both in a hurry but he briefly told me something about viewing the original posts source code and that it would all be in html?


Which I tried but the post itself if buried under all the formatting and such.
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Re: A question for anybody familar with HTML coding.
« Reply #8 on: April 06, 2009, 05:32:40 PM »
Hmmmm, let's see if that'd work

[img width= height=]http://i688.photobucket.com/albums/vv246/Iggy750/IMG_0363.jpg[/img]

Edit:

Yup. The board will let you do that much html in a post. Do that.

You'll just have to dig through all the code for the rest of the board display to pick it out.

On a related note maybe go find a decent search and replace utility. I use BBedit (on a Mac) or the commandline but there are bound to be plenty on the PC side. UltraEdit etc will let you specify a search term and globally replace it throughout the text.

Scratch that. Word can do it.

1 Place your cursor at the beginning of your document.

2 Go to the Edit menu and select Find. The Find and Replace window opens.

3 Select the Replace tab.

4 Type the word or phrase that you want to find in the "Find what" box.

5 Type the word or phrase you want to replace it with in the "Replace with" box.

6 Select All, Up, or Down in the Search drop-down menu to tell Word how much or which part of the document you want to cover with this search and replace.

7 Select Find Next or Replace if you want to manually replace each word or phrase.

8 Select Replace All if you want Word to automatically search for and replace each instance of the word or phrase without first checking with you.

http://www.ehow.com/how_9198_find-replace-text.html
« Last Edit: April 06, 2009, 05:44:11 PM by Iggy »

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Re: A question for anybody familar with HTML coding.
« Reply #9 on: April 07, 2009, 01:46:51 AM »
Alright I got it to work, I now understand what you guys meant with using the notepad find/replace feature. All I needed to do was find the right prefix and ending and replace the existing ones, easy. (not replace the whole thing) The rest was easy. Again thanks to everyone.

I just now saw your edit Iggy as I didn't catch it the last time I checked this post, I ended up copying all my text into wordpad using the modify feature. No digging in the source code needed. But I do want to thank you anyways.

And now I know a little more  ::)

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