LJ questions

[azurelunatic]

If you have questions about LJ, and how to do certain cool things with it, do feel free to ask me. I'll either know or I won't.

That being said:

The cut tag is almost everyone's friend. A simple <lj-cut> produces an effect like this: where everything after the cut tag is hidden behind that link until someone puts in the closing tag, which is </lj-cut>. This is useful for hiding large photos, TMI items, memes, and very long posts.

The spiffy username thing is done so: <lj user="azurelunatic"> becomes azurelunatic.

Livejournal automatically makes links clickable when you post them in your journal; as long as you make sure that the http:// bit is in front of the link you're pasting in, it will link happily.

Comments

[jadedusoliel.livejournal.com]

You know, thank you. I have been trying for ages to get the LJ cut to work for me. The cleint I was using always gave me problems. Thanks. I'm going to book mark this so I can find it later.

[azurelunatic]

You're welcome.

A well-educated group of users makes everybody happy.

[wibbble]

<lj user> also produces all the different kinds of tags you might see (like news, lj_dev, and garfield_comic.

You can find the complete list of tags at this FAQ answer.