posting a div layout code in a myspace bog for others to use? Options

[jessicaisprettyo...]

my friends and i have a site on myspace and i want to put some div/overlay layouts up for others to use. i usually just post the codes in scrollboxes. but you know the generic navigation codes where users need to switch the XXXXXX to their friend id? in a scrollbox, myspace switches these codes to those "msplinks" or whatever. is there a way around this? if not, where can i put these codes for others to use them? they're good layouts, but there's always something wrong with them so they aren't up on createblog. any help is greatly appreciated. : )

[jessicaisprettyo...]

oh, i did that, but then when i link to it from a blog, myspace blocks it and says the link has been disabled. grrr.

[jessicaisprettyo...]

i'll try that, thanks for your help. :)

[Mikeplyts]

Oh, wait, and you could also try going to free layout hosting sites like MyLayoutHost.com or even here at cB.

[jessicaisprettyo...]

okay im pretty much set if you do want to close this, thanks guys. :]

[fixtatik]

there's also the option of placing them within a div element. when posting your codes, any HTML tags will have to be changed, using < and > like this:

CODE

<div>&lt/div>

instead of putting them in a textarea, put them in a div element. that way, "&lt;" will be read by browsers as "<" and "&gt;" as ">" but the actual HTML won't be displayed.

it would look something like this:

CODE

<div style="width:200px; height:100px; overflow-y:auto;">
&lt;style&gt;
body { }
.div { }
&lt;/style&gt;

&lt;div class="div"&gt;
  &lt;a href="link"&gt;LINK&lt/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
</div>

it's a lot of work if you have a lot of HTML tags, but if you have a text editor that can change a certain string of characters all at once, it's easy. just search for "<" and replace it with "&lt;" and search for ">" and replace it with "&gt;". i'm sure there are also sites out there that will do it for you.