https://redbird.dreamwidth.org/ Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished - Dreamwidth Studios Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:16:51 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios redbird personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/222785/52751 https://redbird.dreamwidth.org/ 94 100 https://redbird.dreamwidth.org/1562.html Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:16:51 GMT https://redbird.dreamwidth.org/1562.html 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) <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://www.dreamwidth.org/profile?user=exampleusername'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://www.dreamwidth.org/profile?user=exampleusername'><b>exampleusername</b></a></span> it translates the &lt; to &amplt; and the quote marks to &ampquot; and then interprets them to show the characters they code for, giving me &amplt;user name=&ampquot;exampleusername&ampquot;&gt;.<br /><br />Also, it was a nuisance to enter that, because the HTML editor wants to treat HTML properly, so &amp lt; is read as &lt; 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. <br /><br />There is probably a way of doing this in rich text, but it's not in the FAQ yet.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=redbird&ditemid=1562" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://redbird.dreamwidth.org/1562.html html meta public 2