u mean insert a graphic? <img src="/myimagefolder/smile.gif" alt="smile" /> HTML: html has no built-in smilie graphics if that's what you're asking. that's just a feature of this forum software (vbulletin).
well, i thought there might be some interesting trick to it. never know what those programmers are up to
As it's been said before, you have to insert an image to do that. Most forum software packages have scripts that take ASCII text art (like smileys) and converts them to HTML code for images that then get displayed as smileys.
Or you can use "Smiley Faces Font", but the smileys will be visible only to people that have the font installed. You can use CSS to add this font to your page and ask people at the top of your page to download your font. You may succeede
it's usually done when filling a website with dynamic data from within a database. then it's just a pattern match away from an image. example in in php.... assuming you have smile.gif <?php $str = "im going insert my smiley :) into this sentence. yay!!! :)"; echo preg_replace("/:\)/","<img src=\"smile.gif\" alt=\"smile\" />",$str); ?> PHP:
Wingdings has 3 very basic smilie faces and is certainly installed as standard on all windows based PCs - dont have the default fonts list to hand to check Mac and dont even know if there is a default fonts list for Linux I suspect however you mean as has been as per the smilies here in which case you use a "replace" command in your chosen server side language/ framework