My HTML guide has been updated

[alohadave]

Source control is for losers; everyone knows real programmers write their code using magnets, on the server, live in production.

I used to work on a computer in the Navy that had a display panel that had all the registers displayed (60s vintage, not a single microchip, all discrete components). The main working register has push buttons that would set each bit.

You could program the computer manually by pressing the bits and advancing. Incredibly tedious.

What was interesting was that it had a lamp test function that would test all the bulbs on the panel. A side effect of this is that it would set all the bits in the main register, and crashing whatever was running. Useful if you needed to reboot the computer and couldn't get permission from the higher-ups.

 

[dirk2024]

Hey @FrancesScott,

Have you found anything about increasing Font Size? I've read through your guide and didn't see anything specifically about that. I looked online and found one site that said I HAD to use CSS, but you said in your guide that Literotica doesn't support CSS.

Any ideas?

 

[PennyThompson]

Hey @FrancesScott,

Have you found anything about increasing Font Size? I've read through your guide and didn't see anything specifically about that. I looked online and found one site that said I HAD to use CSS, but you said in your guide that Literotica doesn't support CSS.

Any ideas?

I'm pretty sure there's no way to override text size on a Lit story. Which is for the best, accessibility-wise! Lit allows readers to change text size and a few other font style settings, and mucking around with text sizes would cause all sorts of issues with those settings.

 

[old_prof]

I'm pretty sure there's no way to override text size on a Lit story. Which is for the best, accessibility-wise! Lit allows readers to change text size and a few other font style settings, and mucking around with text sizes would cause all sorts of issues with those settings.

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As an oldster with an oldster's eyes, I appreciate this about the site.

 

[dirk2024]

I'm pretty sure there's no way to override text size on a Lit story. Which is for the best, accessibility-wise! Lit allows readers to change text size and a few other font style settings, and mucking around with text sizes would cause all sorts of issues with those settings.

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Yeah, I use this for when I'm reading on my Kindle.

But I am hoping for a larger Header on my story itself.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Yeah, I use this for when I'm reading on my Kindle.

But I am hoping for a larger Header on my story itself.

The site already gives you a much larger font for the story title.

 

[TheLobster]

Which is for the best, accessibility-wise!

Eh, really? Zoom (aka. changing text size) is like the simplest and most universal accessibility option that's available on virtually every browser. The whole idea of having a dedicated option for it on the site itself is weird to begin with, especially since the option tucked away under tiny UI elements that lack any visual cues they're even interactive.

And regardless, if Lit insists on having this option, it could nevertheless still support <hX> headers which are scaled to the selected text size, e.g.:

h1 {
    font-size: 24pt;
}
.font-size-plus1 h1 {
    font-size: 26pt;
}

as well as the <small> tag (and let's face it, the <big> tag as well; it might be deprecated, but trifles like this hasn't stopped the many authors who use <center>).

 

[RocketGrunt]

as well as the <small> tag (and let's face it, the <big> tag as well; it might be deprecated, but trifles like this hasn't stopped the many authors who use <center>).

No, the thing that stops users from using <center> on Literotica is that the site is still randomly not displaying some center-aligned text, regardless of what system you used to get it centered in the first place.

The bug has been going for months and there's no evidence that Manu is even working on the problem.

 

[FrancesScott]

Hey @FrancesScott,

Have you found anything about increasing Font Size? I've read through your guide and didn't see anything specifically about that. I looked online and found one site that said I HAD to use CSS, but you said in your guide that Literotica doesn't support CSS.

Any ideas?

@PennyThompson has answered, but to confirm, I am unaware of any way to control font size, face, or color in Literotica submissions. And this is probably a good thing, for the reasons she outlines.

 

[dirk2024]

@PennyThompson has answered, but to confirm, I am unaware of any way to control font size, face, or color in Literotica submissions. And this is probably a good thing, for the reasons she outlines.

okay, thanks Frances.

 

[dirk2024]

The site already gives you a much larger font for the story title.

I'm not looking for the title. The story I'm working on will include an official press release, so I want to change the font sizes to more accurately mimic one of those.

But, my hopes and dreams for this will not come to fruition.

 

[SmilingLez]

I wrote this to help other authors, and @Laurel was kind enough to contribute some content. As a few people pointed out, I had forgotten to include bulleted lists. This new version has these as well:

https://www.literotica.com/s/how-to-format-a-story-with-html

If there is anything else missing, please contact me.

Much thanks. I just recently found that the Literotica editor has a word count. This will save me time as no two word count apps are the same. I will just use Literotica's when submitting stories

 

[ElectricBlue]

I'm not looking for the title. The story I'm working on will include an official press release, so I want to change the font sizes to more accurately mimic one of those.

But, my hopes and dreams for this will not come to fruition.

Ahh, you're looking to tweak the story font size itself. That's not going to happen - the site uses a simple house style for uniformity, to make the display as simple as they can, so it's compatible on multiple devices. That's why only a limited range of html is allowed.

You've got a printed page mindset going on, not digital. You need an offset printer .

 

[dirk2024]

Ahh, you're looking to tweak the story font size itself. That's not going to happen - the site uses a simple house style for uniformity, to make the display as simple as they can, so it's compatible on multiple devices. That's why only a limited range of html is allowed.

You've got a printed page mindset going on, not digital. You need an offset printer .

Okay...thanks.

 

[IWroteThis]

No, the thing that stops users from using <center> on Literotica is that the site is still randomly not displaying some center-aligned text, regardless of what system you used to get it centered in the first place.

The bug has been going for months and there's no evidence that Manu is even working on the problem.

I'm pretty sure they were referring to the fact that people still use the "center" tag despite it being deprecated, not that people aren't using it.

 

[IWroteThis]

Ahh, you're looking to tweak the story font size itself. That's not going to happen - the site uses a simple house style for uniformity, to make the display as simple as they can, so it's compatible on multiple devices. That's why only a limited range of html is allowed.

You've got a printed page mindset going on, not digital. You need an offset printer .

What they are wanting to do has nothing to do with print versus digital. It's HTML4 versus HTML5, and the push to move all control to hidden CSS files. Like center, the font tag has been deprecated, but it's still there and largely supported by browsers.

 

[RocketGrunt]

I'm pretty sure they were referring to the fact that people still use the "center" tag despite it being deprecated, not that people aren't using it.

Yeah, but whether you use:
< div style="text-align: center;"> < p> < /p> < /div>
or
<center>
or
None of the above because you use a WYSIWYG text editor and center the text in the word file itself

It still just doesn't fucking work on Literotica if your work is more than one Lit page.

 

[ElectricBlue]

What they are wanting to do has nothing to do with print versus digital. It's HTML4 versus HTML5, and the push to move all control to hidden CSS files. Like center, the font tag has been deprecated, but it's still there and largely supported by browsers.

I know that. Joke emoji. Sigh.

It's still a printed page mindset to an extent, wanting something to look like a press release - rather than a publishing platform where every story looks the same for practical, technical reasons. But the OP knows that already.