getting sikuli to write html code

for these purposes you have to use paste() (see faq 933)

paste() seems just as friendly about html code as type()

it seems like the problem is within the arrows <>.

Just be more specific:
where do you want to paste what? example?

<a href="http://www.gameusd.com/?agentid=17067 " target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><br>
<img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Sk8Mythology/Cellphonetrackingsoftware.png"><br>
</a><br>

--- use raw string (nothing has to be escaped)
paste(r'<a href="http://www.gameusd.com/?agentid=17067 " target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><br>
<img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Sk8Mythology/Cellphonetrackingsoftware.png"><br>
</a><br>')

--- or escape the apostrophes:
paste("<a href=\"http://www.gameusd.com/?agentid=17067 \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow"\>"

well that without the last line break but i'm sure you get the idea.

I'm trying to do is get it to type out a similar html code (general link to image) in a field on my web browser.

ill give it a shot sec.

is there something i'm missing? I pasted your code in here's an example

click(img of field)
paste(r'<a href="http://www.gameusd.com/?agentid=17067 " target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><br>
<img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Sk8Mythology/Cellphonetrackingsoftware.png"><br>
</a><br>')

when I try to run it I get this.

[error] An error occurs at line 2 [error] Error message: SyntaxError: ("mismatched character '\\n' expecting '''", ('C:\\Users\\Daman\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\sikuli-tmp815644451383041370.py', 2, 92, 'paste(r\' \n'))

sorry, the whole string has to be in one line.

If this is not possible or not wanted, you ca use the implicit concatenation feature for strings.

(if interested you find more about this stuff here: http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#lexical-analysis)

your case:

paste(r'<a href="http://www.gameusd.com/?agentid=17067 " target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><br>'
        r'<img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Sk8Mythology/Cellphonetrackingsoftware.png"><br>'
        r'</a><br>')

works now thanks.