Matrix (no spoilers)

[azurelunatic]

I haven't seen Matrix: Revolutions yet, and I'm not likely to for at least a little bit.

I love you all, and this is how you do a cut tag: <lj-cut text="Matrix Spoilers reside within!">

Just cut and paste that in front of any spoilers, if you would be so kind (I have done the magic HTML thing that makes it appear exactly as it should be), and all of us will be happy.

Comments

[sionainn.livejournal.com]

FTR, what is the magic HTML thingy that makes it appear as such?

I had idly wondered how to do that....

[azurelunatic]

There are two. One is surrounding any given bit of text with <pre> </pre> tags; the other is to type in &lt; for the <, and &gt; for the >. (To get the ampersand to display, the escape sequence is &amp;. Which makes this comment pretty hairy to look at from the back end.)

[sionainn.livejournal.com]

So in other words:

<this is how you would get the greater than and less than symbols to appear>

Cool.

[azurelunatic]

Hee. Me g33k. Me teach. Whee!

[wibbble]

Using the HTML entities is definitely the way to go.

Plus, if you don't know how to type accent characters, you can even do things like &eacute; and get é. Plus &trade; (™), &copy; (©), etc.

Although I tend to just type things (other than > and <) normally, and let the document encoding sort it out.

(Something I learned - when using lots of entities, always preview before you post. ;o) )

[azurelunatic]

Warning: indiscriminate use of <pre> tag may make friends' friends page wonky...