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) ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
exampleusername it translates the < to < and the quote marks to " and then interprets them to show the characters they code for, giving me <user name="exampleusername">.
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.
exampleusername it translates the < to < and the quote marks to " and then interprets them to show the characters they code for, giving me <user name="exampleusername">.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.
