Ryan Fitzer

I tried this peice of code as a test with no problems (in the html window:

<FORM action="http://somesite.com/prog/text-read" method="post">
<P>
<TEXTAREA name="thetext" rows="20" cols="80">
First line of initial text.
Second line of initial text.
</TEXTAREA>
<INPUT type="submit" value="Send"><INPUT type="reset">
</P>
</FORM>

I know WP will strip out any empty elements. I’ve had to put   in places to get around this. You could also turn off the WYSIWYG editor when making the forms.

The embed tag is a proprietary tag for Internet Explorer. As a result, pages that use them will not validate. I’m pretty sure WordPress will never support this tag as it is not valid html. There are plugins that make it easy to insert YouTube, Google and many more video formats though. The one I use is:

http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/vipers-video-quicktags/

If you do not want a plugin or would rather cut and paste code in as is, you can turn of the WYSIWYG editor before such a post.

Also, you will have the same problem on every the rest of the text in the sidebar when you have longer titles. If you alter the #sidebar css rule to look like this:

#sidebar
{
padding: 20px 0 10px 0;
margin-left: 610px;
width: 130px;
}

All I did was change the width from what you had (170px) to 130px.

Here’s a link that shows how to do it with unobtrusive javascript. Keeps things nice and separate.

http://www.exit404.com/2005/57/unobtrusive-persistant-scriptaculous-effects

You need an element to clear your float. Plug this in in the proper place in your css to see what I mean:

.narrowcolumn {
float: left;
padding: 0 0 20px 50px;
margin: 0px 0 0;
width: 600px;
/* my edit */

height:200px;
background:red;
}

Here’s a link that will help.

http://www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html

You could make a page template that only pulls certain categories into it and then password protect the page. I haven’t tried it but the Write>Page area has a sidebar section for password protection.