(Pretty beginner) html help

[Chao Tse-Tung]

So I'm gonna start working on my neocities again soon, and I want something that is (functionally) the same as the random agora quotes you get here.

Now, I'm not completely clueless, I can roughly imagine that there's some page containing a list of strings and then you somehow pull randomly from that list to put them on your visible page every time the page loads. Am I way off base? Regardless, guidance would be mighty helpful.

 

[shinobu]

95% sure it's some Javascript. edit: actually, it could be PHP, but you can't do it like that in neocities so what I wrote still is the way to do it in neocities

First you create a <div> or some other element in HTML, you give it an id like randomquote, and then in a <script> tag you define a list of quotes, select one at random and put it in the div's innerHTML
let quotes = ["quote a", "quote b", "quote c"]; let selectedQuote = quotes[Math.floor(Math.random()*1000) % quotes.length]; document.getElementById('randomquote').innerHTML = selectedQuote;
Something like this

 

[0xpizzaface]

this is excellent. a thing i didnt even realize i wanted and the way to go about accomplishing it. thank you both!