Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Shorthand way of deleting HREF lines of HTML code

 One way is just to use your delete button from the right end of the last line of HREF code you want to delete. This is more time consuming but all you do is to place your cursor and then hold down your delete button. However, you have to stay on to of it so you don't accidentally delete more lines of code than you want to. 

A quicker way "But more potentially dangerous" is to use the Edit Function and to take your cursor and run it through your individual Href code you are trying to delete to turn it usually purple or blue. Once you do this you can hit your space bar and the whole line of code is gone. However, holding the delete button is less likely to cause you to delete more code than you want to.

Remember this, Unless you save the HTML code page it is NOT saved in any mistakes you might have made. So, if you make a mistake don't save it!

Go back and start over to save yourself a lot of work.

For example, don't save your work if you are working on a previous days HTML coding. Just make a copy and make a NEW POST entirely with it. So, you can completely copy a previous days coding to another New POST page this way and then do your editing there at the new Post site and then save that when you are satisfied.

I usually change one line of href code at a time and save it and then check to see how it loads. I will make a copy of one line up to 10 times so I know that these are all copies because they all have exactly the same coding URLs and Texts And then one by one I paste the new URLs over the old ones after blueing or purpling out the old ones on each of the 10 or so new copies I have made of one particular Href URL and text code.

Testing after each line of code you change helps create a stream of accuracy better than doing it all at once and then not being able to find what you did wrong. So, I change a line of HREf coding and then save it and then test it each time to make sure it is loading right for my readers worldwide. This also means that for a time you might have up to 10 links doing exactly the same URL and text links. But, one by one you change that over the next 1/2 hour to hour as you make sure everything is working properly worldwide in HTML coding at your link site.

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