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Using the textbox:
Note that it gives you three options: Smart Text, Plain Text, HTML.
Click one to select it.
The additional icons you can click on are: WebEQ Equation Editor,
MathML Equation Editor, spellcheck, Preview.
To access the equation editors, you must use IE as your browser to get
access to the Textbox Editor.
(It does not work with Netscape.)
1. Plain text, of
course, is easiest.
Just type whatever you like. You
cannot format the text.
This is what it looks like:
2. Smart text. It
seems to look just
like Plain text. But this option recognizes spaces, the Enter key
for a new paragraph, as well as basic HTML tags, such as <b> for
bold,<i> for italics, <img src="myimage.gif" for a link to an
image, <a href="BB6MiniManual.html">BB6minimanual</a> for a
link to a file on the web.
3. HTML -- here, the tags for
bold and underline are used -- this is what it looks like in the
textbox:
and then in the Preview:
When the Preview pleases you,
make sure to scroll to the bottom of the page to click Submit,
then click OK on the next screen.
Note that you have to use IE as your browser for access to the
Textbox Editor.
For more, see the files HTML, HTML basics
No, you do not need to learn HTML. You can use Netscape Composer to
create formatted content easily, then click View, HTML Source, then
copy and paste everything within the <body> and </body>
brackets into your textbox. Do not copy the body tags.
Do not use HTML code created with Word or Excel or WordPerfect. It has
extraneous material that will not work on Bb. If you must use material
created in Word, open the .doc file, then copy and paste into a new
blank Netscape Composer file. If you must use an HTML file created in
Word, down the Microsoft Word 2000 HTML Filter from Microsoft (PC only).
Yes, you can include images as well as links to various online data in
a
textbox.
See Textbox Editor examples and
instructions, by John Dono
Opinions differ on the ease and usefulness of inclusion of such
material in an announcement.
My opinion is that the textbox is fine for small bits of information
but that creating and uploading a course document for more data is
simpler and
neater.
See ../webpage_create/webpage_create.html
See upload_to_Bb.html
Using
the Textbox Editor -- available in Internet Explorer only --
shows the following screen:
