Buzz Clik
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Tue Jul-17-07 12:02 PM
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| Basic question: What is "flat HTML"? |
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I've been asked to submit a text file in "flat HTML" for posting on a website. The file will be a very simple stream of text reporting some results. No graphics, no tables, nothing fancy. Is this the same html that is a save option in Microsoft Word?
If not, then how could I convert a simple ASCII file to "flat HTML"?
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| GregD
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Wed Jul-18-07 11:42 AM
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There are some pretty clear postings that clarify this term.
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| mogster
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Thu Dec-06-07 10:17 AM
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| 2. Flat HTML is plain html-code |
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If you have a set of server scripts to print the html page (like the DU), it is a dynamic page, if it just contains html hand typed in notepad and uploaded by ftp, it's called flat html.
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| Tab
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Fri Aug-08-08 10:35 AM
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| 3. I hadn't heard the phrase, but I would take it as plain, unadorned, HTML |
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No CSS, no interactive JSP or other scripts or JS or anything of that stuff.
html header
body
text
that's all.
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| geckosfeet
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Sat Nov-15-08 05:57 PM
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| 4. Do the world a favor - hit some html tutorials online and do NOT use Words' "save as html" option. |
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Edited on Sat Nov-15-08 05:59 PM by geckosfeet
Many good starting html tutorials online. And some of them are even fun. It is worth the time investment 100 times over.
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| divineorder
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Wed Jan-13-10 05:49 AM
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| 6. I agree. Microsoft adds too much proprietary code. |
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I have Microsoft web authoring tools on my computer as part of the installation, and when I used it, there were codes that only Microsoft had. So I went back to hand coding my site....
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| mkultra
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Fri Aug-07-09 10:54 AM
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| 5. If you have a pre formatted ASCII file you can use the pre tag |
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<PRE> </PRE>
Which will maintain the text formatting. You may have to bookend with <HTML></HTML>
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| gtar100
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Tue Sep-07-10 01:03 AM
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| 7. It's a self-contained HTML file; it does not depend on anything external for content. |
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That would include not having references to external css files. All content is in the HTML document which means it wouldn't change whether viewed online or not. If you've got a basic document in Word, it most likely will save as "flat HTML", but it wouldn't be as neat or pretty if you did the HTML yourself if you know how. But that may not matter much. Word 2007 is much better at rendering HTML than any previous version.
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Tue Oct-26-10 03:01 PM
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| 8. That's not saying much |
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What would take 4 lines hand-coded, Word does it in 100.
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