Do Parentheses need HTML?

[ShamBaLa]

Found discussions of brackets in AF { } but not ( ) parentheses used in stories.
I went to three on line txt to HTML conversion sites and within the sentence (if you make a
parenthetical comment) like this, there is no HTML code on the ( or ) symbol.

I have found:

( ( Left parenthesis, round opening brackets, comment starting

) ) Right parenthesis, round closing brackets, comment ening


and this:

<&#40;> (
<&#42;> )

What will Lit accept and/or tolerate?

Not that I need it a lot, but it applies when making an aside in the narrative.
Now I'm just curious.

 

[PennyThompson]

Normal parentheses characters will work fine, no HTML required!

Bracketed code can be iffy, because Lit will only accept and render a small subset of HTML code and will either ignore or strip out other tags, sometimes taking text along with it.

 

[ShamBaLa]

Normal parentheses characters will work fine, no HTML required!

Bracketed code can be iffy, because Lit will only accept and render a small subset of HTML code and will either ignore or strip out other tags, sometimes taking text along with it.

Great thanks. I guess it is like quotation marks. They don't need code either.

 

[GeorgiePorgy]

Is there a way to use an alternate editor, such as the one in the forums comments, to make generating the HTML easier?

 

[PennyThompson]

Is there a way to use an alternate editor, such as the one in the forums comments, to make generating the HTML easier?

Mmm that's tricky. There are plenty of HTML editors, either downloadable apps or online browser tools, that will generate HTML for you.

The problem is that Literotica doesn't accept full HTML code, only a specific, limited subset of HTML formatting tags. If you use one of those editors and then submit the code that it generates, I think it could really mess up the way your story gets formatted when published, or it might just get your submission rejected and kicked back for using code that isn't accepted

 

[ElectricBlue]

Is there a way to use an alternate editor, such as the one in the forums comments, to make generating the HTML easier?

The safest thing to do is write in whatever, but copy paste into the submission box. Then Preview. If your html has gone tits up, you should be able to edit in the form. It's pretty much WYSIWYG.