Note: I wrote this before it became clear what had happened, and now have edited it to reflect that.
Niteflirt has installed a new HTML code screener on the site. What it does is look at your code, find errors, decide what to do, and do it.
Unfortunately the net effect is to turn it all into garbage if you have code errors or what is now considered to be “code errors”.
What is a “code error”? Using any tag that is not on the new approved list, which means that many common tags and attributes are no longer permitted.
If you’re reading this, before you hit “submit”, copy your code into a text editor like Notepad. If Niteflirt has turned your listing into garbage, you will at least have a copy of it to work from.
Things to make sure your code has:
Make sure each tag is closed. All tags start with a ‘<’ and end with a ‘>’. Leaving out the end brackets will do nasty things to your code. Adding stuff into your tags that don’t belong there will break stuff.
Using separate font tags for different font attributes will result in all of them being closed and made useless. Don’t do this:
<font face=”arial”><font color=”red”><font size=”2″>
Do this:
<font face=”arial” color=”red” size=”2″>
Don’t use extra <body>, </body>, <html>, </html> tags anywhere in your listing code. The only <body> tag you should use is if you are using HTML to set the background.
Just because your code was working before doesn’t mean there was no problem with it. Browsers let you get away with all sorts of mistakes. Unfortunately girls have been lucky for a long time. It’s time to start learning to read and write good code, unfortunately.
The new restrictions mean that in some ways code will be more limited than previously. Most designs will have to be redone. Some things are no longer possible at all.
I set up a listing that displays the permitted tags. Many of them are totally useless unless you’re writing an article about computer code. The number of useful tags and attributes is much smaller than the list we have been given.
I also made a div listing template, for those of you who wish to look at some formatting that works.
And there’s always the list of approved tags and attributes to look at.
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