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Other Page Tags

Layout

Use the "%LAYOUT" tag to change the overall formatting for the page(s). Several switches are available:

%LAYOUT cover - Suppresses the page footer and indexing. Useful for cover pages where administrative data at the bottom of the page is unnecessary.
%LAYOUT print - Suppresses navigation links and the table of contents for the page. This is useful when you want to "pretty print" the page on paper.
%LAYOUT slide - Create presentation slides based on the headings in the document.
%LAYOUT keyword - Identifies a page that contains keyword index terms.
%LAYOUT noindex - Identifies a page that should be excluded from indexing.

Colors

The "%COLORS" tag allows you to change the text and background colors for the page. Colors are represented by a pound sign (#) and three red/green/blue hexadecimal digits (black is #000000 and white is #FFFFFF). You can set up to five of the following:

BGCOLOR - Background color
TEXT - Text color
LINK - Link color
ALINK - Active link highlight color
VLINK - Visited link color

  %COLORS BGCOLOR=#40FF40 TEXT=#FFFFFF LINK=#0102FF VLINK=#0102FF

Netscape Only

Watermark

The "%WATERMARK" tag allows you to add a watermark graphic to the page instead of the solid color background:

  %WATERMARK mtxbg

Netscape Only

Base

The "%BASE" tag is similar to the "%PATH" tag and is used to specify the permanent location for the page. This is useful when the page is copied, saved to disk, or printed on paper. A reference to the original document will appear in the page footer. Specify the path without the file name, MTX will add it automatically to make a complete URL. It also adds a <BASE> tag to the HTML header. This is useful if you distribute the page to multiple sites. Relative URLs will use the path specified by "%BASE", not the current location of the page.

  %BASE http://www.med.ufl.edu/medinfo/mtx/docs/

Counter

The "%COUNTER" tag is used to add a dynamic counter at the bottom of the page. You must specify a start date for the counter and the URL of the CGI counter program.

  %COUNTER January 1, 1996 http://www.med.ufl.edu/cgi/counter.cgi

Refresh

Netscape and other Web browsers have the ability to refresh pages automatically at timed intervals. The "%REFRESH" tag allows you to specify the number of seconds the browser will wait before updating the page. You have the option to specify a URL to jump to when the interval has elapsed. If no URL is specified, the browser will refresh the current page.

  %REFRESH 30
  %REFRESH 60 http://www.med.ufl.edu/medinfo/mtx/docs/slides.html

This page will return to the index page after 30 seconds.

Edited on February 23, 1996 / Updated on March 5, 1996
MTX 1.3 User's Manual / Copyright 1996 by the University of Florida
Location: http://www.med.ufl.edu/medinfo/mtx/docs/otherpp.html

Contact: Richard Rathe / rrathe@ufl.edu

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