All LJ-specific tags

Feb 02, 2012 11:29


This is a not-very-brief reference guide to every LiveJournal specific tag and markup that you can use in an entry. Many of them can be used simply by pressing a button in the Rich Text Editor, but some of them have to be added in via the HTML editor. This guide explains how to use them all with the HTML editor.

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pne February 3 2012, 09:04:04 UTC
In your discussion of lj-raw, the first example doesn't have any visible line breaks. So your explanation looks as if LiveJournal automatically inserts them somehow (input has no linebreaks, output has them).

Also, the language code for Chinese is "zh", not "ch". (That would be Chamorro, spoken on Guam.)

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fiddlingfrog February 3 2012, 22:55:45 UTC
Nice catch, thanks.

I'm holding off on fixing the language codes until I can get the list of codes LJ uses and can test them all myself.

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lillian_raven February 6 2012, 20:31:53 UTC
Oh this is amazing. A friend gave me the link to your journal entry and I must say thank you! This is so much easier to understand than the 'real' lj explanation.

Could you maybe help me with some other LJ feature? Sometimes I see such text boxes where you can scroll to read the complete text which you can also copy. I mean a box like here...
http://german-bigbang.livejournal.com/1364.html

How can I make such boxes? I even don't know what they are called...

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fiddlingfrog February 6 2012, 22:53:11 UTC
Glad you like it! If it helped you out please spread it around.

What you see there isn't an LJ feature, it's a HTML tag called . You can read more about them at http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_textarea.asp">w3schools.com, but the basic idea is that you enter