Another Basic HTML Question

[amberfocus]

I have another question for all the tech savvy folks on my f-list.  Nothing to do with LJ itself or cuts this time, just how do I make something like this:  www.whofic.com be a link that says the word Teaspoon instead of being the actual words of the link?

Thanks in advance for being so patient with my lack of knowledge.  You guys have been great.

Comments

[milieva]

< > instead of [ ] + [a href=http://www.whofic.com]Teaspoon[/a] = Teaspoon

ETA: Needed a more appropriate icon

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I got it to work. Do like the icon. It is appropriate.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

(a href="http: //www.whofic.com")TEASPOON!!!(/a)

Replacing () with <> and no spaces.

TEASPOON!!!

[milieva]

You know, yours is more accurate than what I posed. Then again, I'm lazy on LJ since the quotes aren't needed here. I leave them off.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Really? I didn't know that. :D

[milieva]

Yeah. I forgot them once by accident and the link still worked. Stopped using them ever since because I type things out in Word and the auto style tries to make them pretty.

You have to have quotes for lj-cut when you do text, but other than that, you don't need them, It reads it without just fine.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I probably couldn't leave them off if I tried. It's so automatic with me. Like not being able to type in all lower case. :D

[milieva]

Well after the Word incident, when all my links wouldn't work, I just dropped them. I have to use them when I code my website, but here it just helps to forget them (for me, anyway). Because I hate having to fix my fics after I post them.

I can't type in all lower case, unless I am on my phone. Even then I usually type full words and sentences with punctuation and everything.

[wendymr.livejournal.com]

Actually, you don't need quotes around the text in an LJ cut. I haven't used quotes for cut text in well over a year. Don't need them for usernames either :)

[milieva]

That's the only thing that messes up for me if I don't do quotes. And quotes kill usernames. This I know.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

Where DO you need to use the quotation marks? I can't remember the last time I did, but then I've probably not done HTML anywhere but lj in aaages.

[milieva]

Here on LJ, you only need them when you do the cuts with text. Outside of that, images, links, etc, you don't need them.

I still play with layouts on my website and such with HTML, as I still have yet to learn any of the fancier scripts.

[juliet316]

I need the quotes as my html alwasy gets borked if I leave them out.

[milieva]

Look at the conversation I started.

Quotes are for losers, Juliet. All the cool kids drop them. And by cool kids, I mean me. Because I am awesome. Or just unusual.

.... er... I'll go back to working on Nine!smut now... *wanders off*

[glory_jean]

Ha! You must teach us this power you have over LJ, oh Sensei. ;)

[milieva]

The power cannot be taught, young padawan. It comes from inside. But I can teach you the skills you need to awake your power.

Use this hand to wax on. This hand, wax off. New kind karate. Very much fun.

[glory_jean]

LOL. Random Karate Kid reference FTW.

[qtrhorserider.livejournal.com]

Your icon is awesome!

[milieva]

My Boston Legal one? I miss that show. Alan Shore and Denny Crane were brilliant characters.

[juliet316]

LOL!

I'm just saying, if I do linking HTML without quotes, it ends up getting borked all to hell.

Nine!Smut and the next part of Only One Way Out would be quite lovely. ;-)

[milieva]

Nine !Smut is the next part of Only One Way Out. ;) If that wasn't obvious by the end of part eight.

I have never had this problem of links messing up, outside of when the autotext changes my quotes to the pretty curly ones.

[juliet316]

Ahhhhhhhh, okay looking very much forward to it then.

More power to you then. :-)

[got_swagger]

Excuse me while I simply stare at your icon for a very long time.

[milieva]

Would you like to see it again?

[got_swagger]

Yes, yes I would.

(Where is it from, by the way?)

[got_swagger]

We don't need quotes? O.o

I've used quotes for ages on LJ, and then when I took an html class in college, I had a pretty good head start on the class, not just from LJ, but because I'm so used to doing it. I almost never forgot to close a tag or what have you.

I love it when fandom leads to awesome and practical times in RL.

[milieva]

I don't use them, but it has more to due with Word screwing things up for me if I type code out in my fic headers. It was just easier for me to drop them. I learned this was possible entirely by accident.

I learned HTML from a book and from stealing coding when I was learning how to build my own website. I also rarely forget to close a tag due to force of habit. Sometimes I forget the / and end up with entire sections of fic italicized though.


(Lisa, sorry for hijacking your post)

[got_swagger]

Ah.

I usually copy-paste my headers from my previous fics on lj when I'm actually ready to post. I rarely bother including them when I'm writing out the fic in word.

Sometimes I forget the / and end up with entire sections of fic italicized though.

Me too. I hate when that happens.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Not a problem. You wouldn't know how to insert an image into an LJ-cut would you? I can get everything else to work now, but every time I add an image into the cut it makes the cut go away. I'm getting very frustrated.

[milieva]

The usual, trade [ ] for < >.

[img src="http://www.IMAGEADDRESS"]

Hope that helps.

ETA: and I included the quotes. Since apparently others don't have my LJ powers

[wendymr.livejournal.com]

What do you mean, exactly? To put an image under a cut? You can't put an image as part of the cut text. However, you can make images 'clickable', but I only know how to do that in Rich Text.

If you mean having the image behind a cut, the coding should just be somewhere between the 'open cut' and the 'close cut' commands. HTML for posting an image is (< instead of [ ) [img src=ImageURL]

If something messes up, go back and look at your code. Make sure the open-cut command is still in place, and that the close-cut command is also still there. If it's messed up, fix it. If you can't figure out what's wrong, do what I did when I was still learning basic HTML: ask a HTML-savvy friend you trust to log into your account and look at the code and tell you what's wrong (you can always change your password afterwards).

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I think I'll stick with using the quote marks, too, since that is what I'm used to anyway.

[draconin.livejournal.com]

Click here (http://draconin.livejournal.com/) to see a demo of most of the ideas you've been asking about: It has an example of code to show a cut with an image below it, with the image being linked to www.whofic. Also of using an lj cut to intro a fic. The code for it is below, replacing the [ ] with < and >.

This is an example of an image that links to a site. Click on the cut then the image under it...
[lj-cut text="This is the text that appears before they expand the cut..."] [a href="http://www.whofic.com"][img src="http://pics.livejournal.com/draconin/pic/00058g8c.jpg"][/a][/lj-cut]

[lj-cut text="And one of the neat tricks you can do with a cut...."]And one of the neat tricks you can do with a cut is to have the same first few words repeat inside the cut. That way you can have the first sentence of your fic as a teaser and have it expand to the full fic when they click on the teaser without losing any of the actual text.[/lj-cut]