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Mastering the Advanced Text Block
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Forms
The form editor in the Advanced Text Block doesn't submit the form contents to anything by default. You have to specify another web page for the information to be submitted to. This page has to be able to process that information and do something with it. This usually includes server-side programming language support, a service which EZ-NetTools does not offer without an additional fee. In addition, someone familiar with the programming language would have to create the target page.
If all you need is a form that sends user information via email, the form editor in the advanced text block is not the solution. Instead, use the form editing blocks that are natively built in to EZ-PageBuilder.
Symbols
Certain symbols are not suited for inclusion in the code of an HTML page. These symbols include but are not limited to characters such as the copyright symbol (©) or curly quotation marks (“,”). They can be included on your web page, but you have to be sure that you do so properly. If you copy and paste the copyright symbol into the advanced text block, it will be inserted verbatim into the code. This is undesirable because if someone on another computer sees your website in a different font, that symbol may appear as a question mark, a box, or nothing at all. To ensure that all users can see your symbols properly, these symbols should be inserted as a sequence of characters instead. For example, © is the sequence of characters that make a copyright symbol (©©). Symbols inserted in this manner will appear correctly universally. As I said before, copy and paste will not work properly. There are two ways to make sure that you do it right:
- If you're using copy/paste to get your text into the advanced text block, you should always use the paste from word feature to make sure those symbols get converted properly.
- If you're simply typing and you need to add a symbol, use the symbols button. It will present many symbols before you that you can add to your page.
Saving / Submitting / Full Screen Mode
One common mistake that many people make is saving their page incorrectly. They will type everything into their advanced text block, and then use the file menu in EZ-PageBuilder to save their page, forgetting to submit their changes to the advanced text block first. To be sure that you don't make this mistake, hit the submit button on the advanced text block and wait for your page to reload before you use the file menu to save your page.
This may be particularly hard when you've got the advanced text block in full screen mode. This is because in full screen mode, the submit, spell check, and cancel buttons are hidden. If you're in full screen, you need to switch back to the normal view by clicking on the full screen button again, and then hit submit.
Images
If you create your documents in a program such as Microsoft Word, and then copy them to the advanced text block, you might be surprised to see that it doesn't copy your images. This is because an image must be located somewhere on the internet for it to be able to work on the internet. You need to upload the image file to the server and then add it using the image button.
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