Blog Comments Preview
Woo hoo! After a bit of mind-boggling work, I was able to finish the Blog Comment Preview functionality. Now it is possible for users to preview their comments before finally posting them. I like to be able to give something a second look before making it final and decided to offer this luxury to my loyal visitors! ;) In addition to this splendor, I have given y'all some visual text modifiers. You can add three types of styling to your blog comments: bold, italic and underline. Simply wrap the desired text in a valid HTML tag that creates these effects. I outlined the possible tags, giving examples below.
If you don't understand the concept of wrapping text in an HTML tag, or can't figure it out from the examples below, I'd suggest not bothering with it (or strive to learn this extremely basic technique). The basic concept of an HTML tag is that the tag name is enclosed in less than and greater than symbols (< and >). There are two tags necessary: an opening tag and a closing tag, placed before and after the text you wish to effect. The only difference between the two is that the closing tag has a forward slash before the tag name. HTML 101. You're on your way to becoming a web design master (interesting comment, coming from one who isn't one yet)! By the way, I expect all you web savvy humans out there to only use the <em> and <strong> tags. Most of you in this crowd will know that <b> and <i> are like totally deprecated.
- Bold Text: The words <b>bold</b> and <strong>strong</strong> are rendered in bold by wrapping them with <b> and <strong> HTML tags.
- Italic Text: The words <i>italic</i> and <em>emphasis</em> are rendered in italics by wrapping them with <i> and <em> HTML tags.
- Underlined Text: The word <u>underline</u> is underlined by wrapping them with the <u> HTML tag.