Update (11th August 2007): We now have numbers!
Description
View-source. You’ve gotta love it. But it’s a bit boring sometimes — line after line of hypertext, with the only highlight being nice indentation if you’re lucky. I thought I’d liven things up a bit by putting some nice messages into the source of my web pages. For example:
_____ ______ _____ _ _____ ______ _____ _____ _____ _____ | _ | | __ | | ___| | | | ___| | __ | | _ | |_ _| | ___| | _ | | |_| | | | | | | |__ | | | | | | | | | |_| | | | | |__ | |_| | | _| | | | | | __| | | | | | | | | | ___| | | | __| | _| | |\ \ | |__| | | | | |___ | |___ | |__| | | | | | | |___ | |\ \ |_| \_\ |______| |_| |_____| |_____| |______| |_| |_| |_____| |_| \_\
That would surely cheer up any source code haxor. So I decided to spread the love and create a really big source code text generator. Give it a go below.
Instructions
You can use the generator below to create really big source code text for your own website. Type the text you want to show up really big in your source code into the box below. It will show up in the larger text area underneath. Numbers and several punctuation characters work too, you’ll have to try them.
What Now?
Copy and paste the text out of the big text area and whack it into your source! You can paste it into a JavaScript tag as long as you keep the /* and */ in place, but don’t forget to put it between <!-- and --> if you’re just going to whack it into your source. View-source this page if you want to see a huge source text message out in the wild.
February 20th, 2007 at 11:02 am
(yeah it’s not perfect, but without it spelling words such as “COCK” is remarkably difficult)
February 20th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Thanks fluffle, we now have a ‘K’!
March 20th, 2007 at 1:10 am
Might I suggest another K?
March 22nd, 2007 at 12:43 am
We now have a new and improved ‘K’ based on John Smythe’s suggestion :-)
June 2nd, 2007 at 5:18 am
i prefer this one
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June 2nd, 2007 at 5:20 am
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June 13th, 2007 at 4:14 am
June 13th, 2007 at 4:22 am
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:04 pm
This K looks pretty good, in my opinion: don’t know about the \ that doesn’t “connect” quite right.
November 13th, 2007 at 7:22 am
/* _ _ ______ _ _____ _ _ ______ _ _____ _____ /\ \ \ / / | __ | | | | __ \ | | | | | __ | | | | ___| | ___| / \ \ \ / / | | | | | | | | \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | / /\ \ \ \/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | / __ \ \ / | |__| | | | | |__/ / _ | |__| | | | | | | | _ | |___ | |___ /__/ \__\ \/ |______| |_| |_____/ |_| |______| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_____| |_____| */nice gadget :P
May 30th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Lovin it. Thanks!
August 8th, 2008 at 8:01 am
/* _ _ _____ _____ _ \ \ / / |_ _| | ___| | | \ \ /\ / / | | | |__ | | \ \/ \/ / | | | __| |_| \ /\ / | | | | _ \/ \/ |_| |_| |_| */hmm, doesnt look right in preview box ??
August 8th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Luke: You need to wrap it in a <pre> tag so it gets displayed in a fixed-width font :)
August 15th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
/* _ _ ______ _ _____ _____ ______ _____ _____ _____ \ \ / / /\ | __ | | | |_ _| | ___| | ____| | _ | | ___| /\ |_ _| \ \ /\ / / / \ | | | | | | | | | |___ | | __ | |_| | | |__ / \ | | \ \/ \/ / / /\ \ | | | | | | | | |___ | | | |_ | | _| | __| / /\ \ | | \ /\ / / __ \ | |__| | | | | | ___| | | |__| | | |\ \ | |___ / __ \ | | \/ \/ /__/ \__\ |______| |_| |_| |_____| |______| |_| \_\ |_____| /__/ \__\ |_| */August 15th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
December 24th, 2008 at 6:17 am
Another K fix, use a left curly bracket
/* _ __ | | / / | |/ / | { | |\ \ |_| \_\ */December 24th, 2008 at 6:18 am
pre tags didn’t work for me.
Update: Fixed.