This Post Is An Example…

HTML code tags and img tags are something I want to look nice on this blog, and code tags aren’t something I’ve really had to make a huge effort with before. I’ve not written a website where I have a huge need to style them, but since I’ll probably be writing about code I’ve written on this blog, I will need them here:

How I’ve settled on code tags working

@echo off

echo Hello World!

echo This is a really, really long line of code and it's just going to keep going and going and going because I need it to be a long line of code and to keep going.

The only thing is code highlighting. I’ve looked into highlightjs, but I think it’s overkill, and if there’s any very large bits of code I want to include, I’ll probably just use GitHub gists to include them here.

How I’ve settled on images working

Images will look like…

When Pandoc (which the script used to run this site calls) converts Markdown to HTML, it adds any image description to <figcaption>, as well as the image alt= text. I therefore wanted to come up with a nice way to display this caption, and based on the colours I was already using for other parts of the site, this is what I came up with. It used a :before CSS element to add a border in the top left, and the bottom right caption is the <figcaption> element.

Anyway, that’s it.