Memo to self: do not use the rich text editor

[redbird]

It turns out that the "rich text editor" automaticaly escapes HTML: so, instead of giving me nice neat tags, so I can link to (for example) exampleusername it translates the < to &lt; and the quote marks to &quot; and then interprets them to show the characters they code for, giving me &lt;user name=&quot;exampleusername&quot;>.

Also, it was a nuisance to enter that, because the HTML editor wants to treat HTML properly, so & lt; is read as < if I don't explicitly code for the ampersand as an entity. (The space before the l added in the interests of clarity at the expense of literalism.) Things like this are why people want a rich text editor, but I want to link to my friends sometimes.

There is probably a way of doing this in rich text, but it's not in the FAQ yet.

Comments

[liv]

It wouldn't surprise me if the Rich Text Editor is broken, but how it's supposed to work: click on the icon of a little LJ-head with a couple of "links" of chain superimposed on it. Then it pops up a dialogue where you can enter your friend's name, and you should automatically get a correctly formed user link tag.

[redbird]

Ah. I was pasting stuff in from an LJ entry (partly to start populating this journal, and partly as a test) and followed the instructions in the FAQ, which I don't think explicitly say "this is for the HTML editor, it won't work in rich text." So this might be something that calls for an addition to the FAQ.