Support beyond <i> and <b>

[kizkiz]

Does literotica support other HTML tags beyond just <i> and <b>?

I was thinking about <pre>, <code>, and/or <blockquote>.

I really, I wanted to do an <i><pre>Opening poem lines, </pre></i>.

I've seen <center> and <br> being used in this story: https://www.literotica.com/s/the-botanists-an-adventure

 

[Hypoxia]

Does literotica support other HTML tags beyond just <i> and <b>?

I was thinking about <pre>, <code>, and/or <blockquote>.

I really, I wanted to do an <i><pre>Opening poem lines, </pre></i>.

I've seen <center> and <br> being used in this story: https://www.literotica.com/s/the-botanists-an-adventure

That's right, you have. And thanks for reading my story! The tags that work in LIT stories are <I>, <B>, <U>, <CENTER>, and <BLOCKQUOTE> (which can be nested once). <BR> works sometimes; sometimes we get two line breaks instead of one, or at least that's how my browser sees it.

Nope, no <PRE> or <CODE> or <FONT> or any other display specifications. LIT's style sheets present the text to Laurel's taste; she's owner, publisher, and editor here. And she doesn't let us get too fancy. Such is life.

 

[sr71plt]

A question is why you think you need to use any more. Literotica is basically putting out a rolling anthology. The formatting of such collections is intentionally meant to be uniform across the collection to not be distracting to readers. Lit. has chosen a very basic format style for this reason--not to distract the readers from the content of the stories. They are trying to keep the readers focused on the content the author has put in the story. One would think the authors would want that too.

 

[AirRichard101]

That's right, you have. And thanks for reading my story! The tags that work in LIT stories are <I>, <B>, <U>, <CENTER>, and <BLOCKQUOTE> (which can be nested once). <BR> works sometimes; sometimes we get two line breaks instead of one, or at least that's how my browser sees it.

Nope, no <PRE> or <CODE> or <FONT> or any other display specifications. LIT's style sheets present the text to Laurel's taste; she's owner, publisher, and editor here. And she doesn't let us get too fancy. Such is life.

You forgot (or didn't know) you can use <A> to put clickable links in a story - but be careful. You can only link things within Literotica such as other stories. Laurel will look closely and reject your submission if you try going outside Lit.

You are right about nesting <BLOCKQUOTE> but I don't know if there is a limit of once. We nested, but only once.

Here is a warning, pay attention when reviewing your submission as all these tags do NOT carry over across Lit page breaks (we found out).

Here is Sandy's submission that uses most of these tags: Chronological Listing. All her other stories are linked within.

ETA: I think pilot is right about not needing all the fancy stuff. Except for our special (non)story, we only put bold stuff in the lead-in and italics inside the story for emphasis.

 

[kizkiz]

https://www.literotica.com/s/demons-punish-ch-01

I have this short "poem" "quote" thing the presides the actual narrative. The lines are short, but they end up double spaced, when I would have preferred it to be single space. It it looks weird and makes it confusing to me to know when the "flavor text" quote ends and the story begins.

Just curious if I could do something like that or not.

I agree about keeping it simple and don't need CSS stylesheets or anything.


Humans were given life by the Word;
Their greatest gift was free will.
None born to the Word could be corrupted;
Those of the Word were allowed to trip and fall.
Always their actions were their own;
Their actions were theirs to be judged.
And so Demons punished the wicked;
And Angels protected the righteous.

 

[AirRichard101]

https://www.literotica.com/s/demons-punish-ch-01

I have this short "poem" "quote" thing the presides the actual narrative. The lines are short, but they end up double spaced, when I would have preferred it to be single space. It it looks weird and makes it confusing to me to know when the "flavor text" quote ends and the story begins.

Just curious if I could do something like that or not.

I agree about keeping it simple and don't need CSS stylesheets or anything.


Humans were given life by the Word;
Their greatest gift was free will.
None born to the Word could be corrupted;
Those of the Word were allowed to trip and fall.
Always their actions were their own;
Their actions were theirs to be judged.
And so Demons punished the wicked;
And Angels protected the righteous.

I think your problem doesn't need HTML tags to be cured. In Word, if you hit <enter> (or <return>) at the end of each poem line, it inserts a new paragraph mark. If you tell Word to 'show' the paragraph marks, you'll see them. Try replacing them by holding the shift key while hitting <enter>. This will put <CR><LF> after each line instead. When you review the submission, you should see single spaced lines.

 

[RejectReality]

When you need single spacing, do it that way in the document, and then utilize the "notes" section of the submission form to request that the single spacing be maintained for the poem. Otherwise, Laurel defaults to adding the extra carriage return between each line.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Or paste it into the text box and fix any problems in the preview.

 

[kizkiz]

I had pasted them into the text book and they had looked fine to me in the preview. Then when it got published it had the double spaces. Maybe I screwed something up.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Then your
poem should
have looked
like this.

Then your

poem shouldn't

looked like

this.

Humans were given life by the Word;

Their greatest gift was free will.

None born to the Word could be corrupted;

Those of the Word were allowed to trip and fall.

Always their actions were their own;

Their actions were theirs to be judged.

And so Demons punished the wicked;

And Angels protected the righteous.

You had to have placed the extra paragraph marks in the text. The rest of your story looks fine.

Question: The 333333333, is that just a scene separator?

Usually, scene separators are * * * *. Now if you want, you can use...

<center>* * * *</center> to center the separator.

 

[RejectReality]

No, Laurel defaults to adding the carriage returns unless you specifically request it via the notes section -- and not always, even then.

Getting it right in the document means squat if she notices it, and you haven't put in the special request.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Hmmm...

This story has a sort of poem to begin...actually song lyrics and she didn't add returns.

 

[RejectReality]

I change everything over to plain .txt before submitting here, so there's no formatting at all left in mine, and unless I've specifically requested it, all the poetic spells in Danica/SOTM were double spaced, despite being single-spaced in the document and showing that way in preview.

It may be that it's an automated process, and having the poem start the document caused Laurel to recognize it and override the default.

Either way, the best bet is to specifically request it in the notes section if you want something to come out single-spaced.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I just copy right out of word and if you have it setup right, it looks exactly the same in the lit preview. Just the way it's supposed to look on Lit.

 

[kizkiz]

Yeah I copied and pasted it into the text box. It looked fine in the preview. Just trying to figure out not to have that repeated.

 

[sr71plt]

Yeah I copied and pasted it into the text box. It looked fine in the preview. Just trying to figure out not to have that repeated.

I think the most assured way has been posted to the thread already--use the notes box to tell the submissions editor, Laurel, what you are trying to do.