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[arysteia]

Is anyone able to tell me what the code is to get a user name to link to DW when posting in LJ? Google provides a thousand links for the reverse, naturally, but this has me stumped. Thanks in advance.

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[rebelsheart]

LiveJournal itself doesn't have a code to do what you describe. You can hack it together with the HTML below, substituting the desired username for 'example'

[arysteia]

Woohoo! My hero! Thank you.

But god that's complicated. They couldn't possibly give us what we want, huh. ;-p

[rebelsheart]

Dreamwidth did some work to make it possible to link to other sites with their code. The HTML I shared is what Dreamwidth produces on a crosspost and can be looked up with the 'View Source' function in most browsers. It can also be used to link to a Twitter or Facebook user with minimal adaptation.

[arysteia]

This is a learning day for me! Thanks again.

[rebelsheart]

Alternately, you can use basic HTML if you don't want the special formatting. This is covered in the first bullet of this FAQ: http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=67

[arysteia]

Oh, yeah, that's what I've been doing up till now. I was just curious -- read consumed with it -- because I knew I'd seen proper links around the place, but could find no FAQ anywhere that said how to do it.

[andy]

You can copy an HTML snippet to do that on the Dreamwidth profile page for the user you need to link to.