html in answers?

[popestcyril David W. Quatrone]

A commentator is insisting that I can get super and sub script in answer column.  I have tried his suggestion, but can't get it to work.  Is it possible?  and if so, can someone guide me through it?  Comment is on this quiz:  http://www.sporcle.com/games/popestcyril/say-it-with-a-letter-d---k

Thanks.

Cyril

[JoeBeta]

I tried pasting H₂O  into a Draft quiz answer section of my own, and it worked. In my experience and observation the general sub and super tags don't work in the answer section, but at least some (perhaps all?) individual characters do work. I've always found that copying and pasting is by far the easiest way to deal with that kind of thing.

[Bazmerelda]

I think Q_Pheevr already clarified it in the quiz but HTML sub and sup tags will not work in the answer column, however unicode characters will. Unicode sub and superscripts only exist for a handful of common useful characters, whereas if they were available, HTML tags could be added to any text.

You can compare the difference between HTML and unicode sub and superscripts on this wikipedia table. You'll notice straight away that the HTML versions look much better than the unicode equivalents.

Also try copying and pasting a unicode superscript and an equivalent HTML superscript into something like a Google search bar. You will see that the unicode version stays small, while the HTML version has the code stripped out so that it appears full sized. This is what happens when you attempt to use the HTML version in a Sporcle quiz.

A unicode ² is a distinct, separate character from 2. An HTML ² is just an ordinary 2 character, which your browser has been told to raise and shrink.

If you want to use sub and superscripts in your quiz data, I'm afraid you're stuck with the rather more limited unicode versions, which can be copied and pasted from unicode sites or wikipedia. Unfortunately it is not always guaranteed that everyone will have these characters installed on their computers so some quiz players may complain that they are just seeing empty squares.

[popestcyril David W. Quatrone]

Thanks Bazmerelda and JoeBeta, appreciate the answers.

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