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[low_delta]

I notice that I have a few people on my friends list that are new not only to LiveJournal, but to the internet in general. I'm sure they are wondering about all these nifty codes, so I'm listing them out. Feel free to add this post to your memories (click on the heart) if you think you may need to find this again.

If anyone feels the need to correct or add anything, feel free.

Text:
bold: <b>text</b>
italic: <i>text</i>
underline: <u>text</u>
strikethrough: <s>text</s>
emphasis: <em>text</em>
big: <big>text</big>
small: <small>text</small>
^{superscripted}: ^text
_subscripted: _text
Indented block of text: <blockquote>paragraph or two</blockquote>

<font size=X color=color face=font>text</font>
Size may be given as an absolute (in pixels, I believe) or as an amount larger or smaller than the viewer's default view (+2) (this is preferable).
Color may be specified as a hex number (FFCC00) or as a word (fuschia).
Fonts (face) may be named.


Displaying pictures (image tag):
<img src="address"> (image source) Address must be in quotes.

additional attributes:
height=###
width=###
title="text" (text that will be displayed if you hover your mouse on the image)
alt="text" (text that will be displayed if the image does not display.)

example: <img src="http://userpic.livejournal.com/20574/18150.jpg" width=100 height=50>


Linking to other web pages (anchor tag):
<a href="address">text to click</a>
Address must be in quotes.

additional attributes:
target=window (Use _blank to open link in a new window. I like to do this when I'm linking to someplace that viewers will want to click around the site.

example: <a target=_blank href="http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/02/02/superbowl.jackson/index.html">see the stupidity</a>

As you can see, if you show a web address, LJ will make it into a link.


LiveJournal specific tags:

LJ cut:

<lj-cut> removes the remainder of the post from view
<lj-cut> removes the part of the post that is between the opening and closing tags from view</lj-cut>
<lj-cut text="text"> without the text attribute, the text that is displayed on the cut link will say "Read more". The text attribute will put in whatever words you wish.

<lj user="username"> creates a link directly to the listed user, with the head icon next to the name that links to the userinfo page. This same tag may be used for journals, communities and RSS feeds, and will have the appropriate icon displayed. low_delta, onemoreword, theonionfeed

Scrolling text:
<marquee>text</marquee>

atributes:
direction=left, right, up, down
behavior=alternate

Marquees are not supported by Netscape. Netscape users will not see scrolling text.

List:
<ul>
<li>first point</li>
<li>second point</li>
<li>third point</li>
</ul>

Lists may be unordered (ul: bullets) or ordered (ol: numbers).
List items (li) are recommended to be closed (/li) but this is not required.

Tables:
Tables can be complex, but I'll just give the basics:
<table>
<tr>
<td>a1</td>
<td>a2</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>b1</td>
<td>b2</td>
</tr>
</table>

Comments

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[low-delta.livejournal.com]

D'oh!

thanks