Paragraph HTML Tag for Story Submission Used to Work Before

[KenNicottii]

For the 3 stories I posted prior to last year’s Winter Holidays contest, I used the double line break <br><br> HTML tag substitution to get the proper paragraph line breaks when posting my .txt file directly in the story submission box. As an experiment for my Winter Holidays entry, I used the paragraph break <p> HTML tag instead of <br><br>. The story displayed perfectly – in preview mode as well as on the actual Lit page.

On my latest story (for the Nude Day contest) I tried this again, but it didn’t work (in the story preview mode). The <p> tags were ignored, so I went back to the double line break method.

My question: Is there something about the new submission portal that could have affected the <p> tag not working – perhaps a tightening of the allowable HTML tags that can go through?

And a related question – I thought the <blockquote> HTML tag was acceptable (I was trying to use it for the first time), but it too was ignored in the story preview mode.

Thanks in advance.

 

[RejectReality]

New control panel or old?

If new, you might want to try submitting through the old panel and see if everything still previews as expected there. The new control panel submission form still has a few differences from the old one that need to be ironed out.

 

[KenNicottii]

New control panel. I guess I can test it on the old control panel for next story I submit.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

The new control panel preview probably filters out all HTML tags except those management allows. <b><br><i><u><center> and maybe <blockquote> - need to try this one.

That way Laurel doesn't have to scan the text of unwanted HTML tags.

 

[KenNicottii]

The new control panel preview probably filters out all HTML tags except those management allows. <b><br><i><u><center> and maybe <blockquote> - need to try this one. ...

Nah, my attempt at using <blockquote> for the first time was ignored by the preview mode (new control panel). Instead I had to italicize a big chunk of text, which I didn't want to do. But I would still encourage others to try this - one data point is never a desirable experiment.

Awhile back I thought about using <center> for my scene break punctuation (* * *), but I read that the <center> tag was depreciated in current versions of HTML and possibly gone from HTML entirely at some point in favor of cascading style sheets (CSS). CSS usage was way too much HTML trivia for me to bother with, so I just let the scene breaks left justify - and have learned to like it that way.