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Web Mad Libs

The web mad libs applet allows webmasters to add mad libs to their web site. This version includes a tagline at the bottom of the applet mentioning this web site. For a version without the tagline, e-mail orders@codevision.com.

Follow these steps to add the web trivia applet to your web page:
  1. Download (right-click or option-click and "save target as") the MadLibsApplet.jar file.
  2. Download a sample mad lib file lethergo.txt file.
  3. Change the sample mad lib file following the example. Specifially, the first part of the file lists the parts of speech each requested word should be, preceded by a number key and seperated by a tilde. For example, if the first word should be a person's name, and the second should be an adjective, the file should start out as: 
    1~Person's name~
2~adjective~
    This section is followed by a "***~" noting the story is coming up next. Add the story to the file as plain text with two exceptions: replace the word from the story with "~number~" where number matches the key for the word listed at the top of the file, and add "\n" wherever a new line is to be inserted.
  4. Upload the MadLibsApplet.jar and your mad lib text file to the web server.
  5. Include a modified version of the following code to your web page:
    <applet code="MadlibsApplet.class" width=600 height=400 archive="MadLibsApplet.jar" codebase="http://**web address of MadLibsApplet.class**">
    <param name="title" value="**Title to appear in the mad libs applet**">
    <param name="dataurl" value="**The full URL of the mad lib text file**">
    <param name="background" value="255, 255, 255">
    <param name="foreground" value="0, 0, 0">
    <param name="font" value="Times, plain, 14">
    <param name="titlefont" value="Times, bold, 18">
    </applet>

    (Note: background and foreground take r, g, b color values. font and titlefont expect font name, style (plain, bold, or italic) and point size.)