HTML Practice Area
March 4th, 2007 by Andrew WellsThis tool allows you to post HTML to the site, and preview it in an iFrame. You are then provided with a URL to share the code with others.
HTML practice areas are useful for people that want to practice with and share HTML. Many times, people need help with HTML online and posting code directly to forums causes clutter quite quickly. Posting your code in a practice area and posting the link to it is a much more organized way of sharing HTML for assistance.
There are several variations of these tools out there like this one (See the end of the post for links). The reason why I made one was because I feel that some changes makes it better. Instead of enbedding the html inside the actual page, I decided to have the code show inside an iFrame which allows the code to be completly separate from the rest of the website which means that the site’s style won’t affect the code and vise versa. I was having these problems when I had the practice area on the old site. Another difference is that authors of their code have the opporunity to edit their submission without getting a new link. The author is determined by a cookie placed when the submission is made. If the author clears their cookies, then the submission will not be able to be edited. Other features include the ability to save your code and integration with the HTML Extration Tools.
Other HTML Practice Areas:
See this tool at: http://www.pr0gr4mm3r.com/html_practice/