Many users compose descriptive text in another program and then copy and paste it into HyperCities. This is actually a good option, because it allows you to do multiple drafts of the text before displaying it in HyperCities. If you do this, though, it’s best to use a plain text editor like Notepad (Windows) or TextWrangler (Mac), and do your formatting using the HyperCities editor, unless you know HTML. Avoid word processing programs like Microsoft Word; Word generates HTML that looks strange in HyperCities, so HyperCities edits most of this formatting out. In other words, doing the formatting in HyperCities saves you time.
If you would like to write your own HTML, here are some guidelines:
- Only use tags that normally appear in the <body> portion of an HTML document. Anything in the <head> portion is discarded.
- Use inline styles. CSS blocks (<style> tags) are removed by HyperCities for appearance and security. In the past, some cut-and-paste text from Word has changed the entire appearance of HyperCities because of conflicting style names or styles applied globally to all tags, e.g. <p>.
- Links in HyperCities always open new windows. Anchor tags do not work in HyperCities content.
- Clicking on images in HyperCities always opens them in our special photo viewer, which allows a user to see them in a larger size.
- The following tags will be filtered out, and everything inside of them will be removed:
- <head>
- <script>
- <style>
- <iframe>
- <form>
- <input>
- <select>
- <blink>
- For security reasons, all Javascript is filtered out.
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