Hunh. Interesting LJ feature
Nov. 23rd, 2014 11:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiSo when I made my Amazon post this morning, of course I screwed up the HTML. But when I opened the entry to edit it, I couldn't find any problem, and spent nearly ten minutes trying to figure out what had happened.
It turns out that when you screw up HTML in an LJ entry by putting in double quotation marks (a not-uncommon mistake for me, which is why the first thing I do is a search for two quotes), and then go to the "edit" page, LJ will strip the second quote out, and thus you can just hit save after opening up the edit screen, and you'll be set.
Of course, since I didn't know that, I spent ages on that damned edit screen trying to fix a mistake that had been rectified.
Dreamwidth, incidentally, does not do the same thing.
It turns out that when you screw up HTML in an LJ entry by putting in double quotation marks (a not-uncommon mistake for me, which is why the first thing I do is a search for two quotes), and then go to the "edit" page, LJ will strip the second quote out, and thus you can just hit save after opening up the edit screen, and you'll be set.
Of course, since I didn't know that, I spent ages on that damned edit screen trying to fix a mistake that had been rectified.
Dreamwidth, incidentally, does not do the same thing.