Comments | caffienekitty: How to Avoid Using the LJ Rich Text Editor

caffienekitty

How to Avoid Using the LJ Rich Text Editor

Aug 24, 2011 15:34

Since the Rich Text editor on Livejournal goes insane frequently and messes things up and drives everyone nuts, here are some basic HTML codes for use when posting on Livejournal in the HTML Editor.

( Some basic HTML tags and advice under the cut. )

tech, ...thing, lj

Comments 24

embroiderama August 24 2011, 22:49:40 UTC

I’ve been writing things directly into HTML for years, and it’s second nature to me now, to the point I have to remind myself not to put in formatting tags when I’m writing email or non-HTML things.

Yes, me too! I taught myself from Geocities. LOL I've now lost most of the web page design stuff I taught myself (which was decent at the time but horribly basic now) but those formatting tags and whatnot are happily stuck in my brain. If you don't mind, I'm going to promote this post on my journal.

caffienekitty August 24 2011, 22:52:09 UTC

Go right ahead! I've seen a lot of Rich Text Rage floating around lately, so I'm hoping this helps people.

ficwriter1966 August 24 2011, 23:26:25 UTC

Awesome! I knew a few of them - I flipped back and forth between Rich Text and HTML to see what the codes were, and I've been using Notepad to strip out the Word-generated junk codes.

Rich Text seems to still be arbitrarily double-spacing things - but I found that if you go into "edit," make no changes, then save the page again - the double-spacing goes away.

So typical. Every time they try to "improve" things, it messes everything up. *headdesk*

caffienekitty August 25 2011, 03:22:02 UTC

I do not know why people keep 'improving' things that worked just fine.

saberivojo August 24 2011, 23:35:32 UTC

Thank you. Other folks have tried to teach me and I have a cheat sheet - but I have copied and pasted this to my existing cheat sheet.

LJ...why do you do this to me?

caffienekitty August 25 2011, 03:22:49 UTC

If any of us knew why LJ did some of the things it does, we'd be psychic.

izhilzha August 24 2011, 23:42:08 UTC

Nicely put together.

I learned HTML (basics, anyway) well before I ever got on LJ, so I've never used the Rich Text thingy.

caffienekitty August 25 2011, 03:24:12 UTC

Thank you! I've never used the rich text thing either. I tend to think in HTML. XD

aelfgyfu_mead August 25 2011, 00:31:40 UTC

Thanks! I use some of those, but there were a few I didn't know.

"Code Monkey" is a very appropriate song!

caffienekitty August 25 2011, 03:24:45 UTC

Indeed it is! One of my favourites of his as well.