Manipulating LJ-Cut Tags

[akizukikaoru]

Title
Manipulating LJ-Cut Tags

Short, concise description of the idea
Permit users to manipulate placement and appearance of lj-cut tags.

Full description of the ideaAfter three days of tinkering with the HTML formatting of my entry, browsing the FAQ, e-mailing Support, downloading clients (and e-mailing their programmers), I still can't manipulate

Comments

[charliemc]

Do you use HTML all the time? Issues with lj-cuts are generally related to not using the HTML format...

[charliemc]

I should clarify and say that I've never had any issues with my lj-cuts (I've had a journal since 2002). But such issues are a known issue with the Rich Text Editor...

[just_chiara]

I'm not quite sure I get how you'd want lj-cuts to work. Because they seem to be working properly in the image you posted, so I'm assuming you'd want them to work in a different way?

[hammond]

Looks like she wants to use them like anchor tags. I.e. Each link goes to a different LJ-cut section in the same entry.

[just_chiara]

I think you're right, thank you.

That would be confusing, IMO. When you click on an LJ-cut it opens the link and you keep on reading from where you left off. If it opens a section of the entry further down, it means you'd skip part of the entry. Some people already mess up LJ cuts as they are, I'd be honestly scared of what could happen if they functioned as both cuts and anchor tags. Isn't it easier and less confusing to create an LJ-cut and then make an anchor tag too?

[azurelunatic]

But LJ-cuts do have anchor tags associated with them. The first tag has #cutid1, and the second has #cutid2, and so forth. Though I think those are only visible from within the cut, so there won't be 20 #cutid1 anchors appearing on any given friends page.

[justhuman]

As discussed above, I think that what you'd like are anchor tags. The function of the LJ-cut is to hide a section of text and then go on in sequence.

I don't support changing the current functionality of the cut, but I do support the addition of easy code for adding anchors. It's been a while since I coded them in html, but it's probably possible to use them right now.

[ldymusyc]

LJ-cuts can act as anchor tags, if you're not wanting to put in the work to create actual anchors. Create the cut, put in the text you want to hide, then put . Create new cut, repeat. Each cut gets identified by a number as cutid1, cutid2. Use that to form the psuedo-anchor tags.

[akizukikaoru]

My entries max out in length. I hid portions of text using LJ-cuts, but I hated the way they listed at the bottom of the entry. I wanted to make them look the way I wanted them to look (by putting them in as chapter numbers in my table and eliminating the parentheses).

I eventually had to dig into CSS to make it finally work. It seems to me that it'd be easier if we can just hide the darn things.

[debris_k]

Um, why would you even WANT to hide the parentheses and the other stuff that marks an lj-cut as an lj-cut? How would anyone know that's what they were if they weren't marked as they are now? *is confuzzled*

Dude. And your post doesn't describe what you actually want to accomplish AT ALL.