[AccessD] gobbledygook

[Stuart McLachlan]

That my friend is REAL MS RichText :)

It's what MS used to use by default in emails before they got the message that only Outlook 
could read it - anyone using a different email client just say that crap. So they canged to 
HTML as the default.

As I said earlier, it's totally different to HTML.

Saving your HTNL text in Wordpad  as a .rtf file made Wordpad translate the HTML to RTF 
before saving it. Changing the extension didn't change the content back.

CSS  (Cascading Style Shhets) is something entirely different. 
It's a way of storing HTML styles in a separate file so that you don't have to repeat the style 
every time it's used 

 In the HEAD of the HTML page, you would have a line that says something like
<link rel="stylesheet" href="camco.css" type="text/css">

A CSS file looks something like this:

body{
	font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;
	color: #000077;
	font-size: 16px;
	line-height: 1.3;
	text-align:left;}
h1 {
	color: #0000bb;
	background-color: #e0e0e0;}
...

It stores the style you want to use for any element of a page that is wrapped in tags.
The h1 sytle means that every time anything in the HTML is wrapped in <h1>...<.h1> tags, it 
will be in blue with a grey background.

That saves you from writing
<h1 color: #0000bb; 	background-color: #e0e0e0;> ..... </h1>
every time you want a header on any of your web pages.

Using a stle sheet means that  you can change the appearance of any element in the  whole 
site with one edit in the CSS file.




On 12 Jul 2022 at 23:21, John Colby wrote:

> I did a little editing using the toolbar editor.  The following is
> what I ended up with displayed in the text box.  I changed the first
> word font, and just for fun changed the background of the word
> 'another' to yellow.
> 
> This is yet another FONT test
> 
> I copied that into the paste buffer, then pasted it into Wordpad.  I
> saved it into a file.rtf, which I then changed to file.html.  I then
> opened that with chrome.  It did not render it, but instead displayed
> the following.  I plead ignorance but i am guessing CSS?
> 
> {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\nouicompat\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil
> \fcharset0 Engravers MT;}{\f1\fswiss\fprq2\fcharset0
> Impact;}{\f2\fnil\fcharset0 Calibri;}} {\colortbl
> ;\red0\green0\blue255;\red255\green255\blue0;} {\*\generator Riched20
> 10.0.19041}\viewkind4\uc1
> \pard\sa200\sl276\slmult1\cf1\ul\i\protect\f0\fs28 This \f1 is yet
> \highlight2 another\highlight0 FONT
> test\cf0\ulnone\i0\protect0\f2\fs22\lang9\par }
> 
> The next question is, did it get translated into CSS (if that is what
> it is) in Wordpad?  Or isv this gobbledygook what the toolbar editor
> in Access actually wrote into the textbox renderer?
> 
> Not that it makes any difference, I am not going to create that
> gobbledygook programmatically anyway.  I was just hoping it was still
> HTML that I could mimic. -- John W. Colby Colby Consulting -- AccessD
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