accrington Posted December 26, 2008 Report Share Posted December 26, 2008 How to create a fraction in a web page? I know only this way: ?. How to get a horizontal line in an elegant way? Could you, please, suggest a link where to read about it? Thanks. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
administrator Posted December 26, 2008 Report Share Posted December 26, 2008 How to create a fraction in a web page? I know only this way: ?. How to get a horizontal line in an elegant way? Could you, please, suggest a link where to read about it? Thanks. :-) Hi, You just wrote 1/2 in the post above and ... it looks pretty good to me. I suppose you could create a ... around the 1/2 and then use CSS to change the font and text properties. You know, make it bold, all caps etc .... Stefan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accrington Posted December 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 26, 2008 Hi Stefan, Thank you. It works when we have 1/2 and 1/3. But if I need something like this: a/b + c/d = (a + c)/ d. Or, let's say 2 and 1/3... or 11/4 = 2 3/4 etc ... You see, this is very nice: or ∑i=0∞ xi when you need a Sum. But it doesn't work with fractions. It's very simple in Word > Object > Microsoft Equation 3.0. I am wondering - do I have to make everything like .gif? Boring. I hope that there should be something nice, as you said: create a ... around everything. Thanks a lot and Happy Boxing Day! accrington Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Posted December 26, 2008 Report Share Posted December 26, 2008 Create an image for them and reduce to a small size, assuming you haven't got too many. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysaurus Posted December 26, 2008 Report Share Posted December 26, 2008 (edited) The proper, semantic way to mark up mathematics is to use....MathML! It is a recommendation of the W3C, and it is certainly the way to go for more complex stuff. Wikipedia has an excellent article with examples here. Predictably, IE only supports MathML with a plugin, so depending on your audience, this may or may not be the best solution. Edited December 26, 2008 by monkeysaurus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accrington Posted December 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 26, 2008 Thank you, monkeysaurus! MathML looks very good for my task. I've found this page http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/math/#fractions, read about it, and I've got completely lost. Now, with your help it looks crystalclear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
administrator Posted December 26, 2008 Report Share Posted December 26, 2008 accrington, Your sheep avatar is scaring me for some reason. Stefan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysaurus Posted December 26, 2008 Report Share Posted December 26, 2008 (edited) You're welcome Accrington. Hope it's useful. And to the HTML zealots here...you need XHTML for this one! ... ... ... ... ... ... (I think) Edited December 26, 2008 by monkeysaurus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accrington Posted December 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2008 Stefan, Why? They are so cute and so curious. maths and counting sheep... monkeysaurus, Thank you once more, even if I do not understand those dots. But it is ok with XHTML. At least I know where to read about it. I hope I will manage MathML for my webpage. Otherwise I could follow Wickham's suggestion. accrington Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSW Posted December 28, 2008 Report Share Posted December 28, 2008 I would have said that too... but the Monkey beat me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhaslip Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 (edited) Place the numerator in a superscript tag and the denominator in a subscript tag 2/11 Edited January 14, 2009 by jlhaslip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhaslip Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 For Forums allowing the sup and sub bbcodes, it would look like this: 2/11 Not sure if it will work on the new Forum set-up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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