Using html "style" tag for formatting stories?

[h0me]

Is the style tag supported? I included the following a style at the top of my story, to indent the first line of each paragraph.

p { text-indent: 30pt; margin:0; padding: 0; }


The story formatting looked perfect in preview. But then I got to thinking about what would happen if the story was split into multiple pages.

 

[Alice_Rosaleen]

Is the style tag supported? I included the following a style at the top of my story, to indent the first line of each paragraph.

p { text-indent: 30pt; margin:0; padding: 0; }


The story formatting looked perfect in preview. But then I got to thinking about what would happen if the story was split into multiple pages.

Long story short- no. There's a list on the site of acceptable tags, but I'm pretty sure they change them to W3School standards/ use their CSS classes before it's published.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Is the style tag supported? I included the following a style at the top of my story, to indent the first line of each paragraph.

p { text-indent: 30pt; margin:0; padding: 0; }


The story formatting looked perfect in preview. But then I got to thinking about what would happen if the story was split into multiple pages.

Paragraph indents will be stripped out by the site editor - your text needs to follow the Literotica publisher's conventions. Eyeball any story, and that's what you can expect to get.

Italics and bold will be allowed, and centred section breaks do work - although center breaks will fuck up some text readers (kindle, for example), I've recently discovered - but that's about it.

Lit chooses the "look" of the content, not the author. Stick to providing words in as plain text as you can, is the usual advice whenever this comes up (which it does, often).

 

[Hypoxia]

Shalespeare got away without italics and centering. You can too. The more plain vanilla your text document, the more readable it will be on more platforms.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Shalespeare got away without italics and centering.

Ahem.

First Folio images here. Quarto here.

Those are the first printed editions, published a few years after Shakespeare's death. As you can see, the publishers were not exactly shy of italics and centering. In particular, within the play texts he uses italics to distinguish between speech and character names/stage directions.

You can too. The more plain vanilla your text document, the more readable it will be on more platforms.

...and I agree with this part entirely, but Shakespeare's not the right example for arguing it.

 

[SolarRay]

Is the style tag supported? I included the following a style at the top of my story, to indent the first line of each paragraph.

p { text-indent: 30pt; margin:0; padding: 0; }


The story formatting looked perfect in preview. But then I got to thinking about what would happen if the story was split into multiple pages.

Think about how people could misuse the style tag or attribute. The moment anything goes, anything will go. There's a place for creativity in presentation, but the restrictions are presumably in place so that there is a comfortable uniformity to the story presentation and to allow things to be readable across various platforms and browsers. Introducing the style tag would mean overly styled text, floated and specially positioned elements, removed core functionality of Lit, background images and other media. We'd be reading MySpace erotica!

 

[Alice_Rosaleen]

Most every site references an external .css file and they don't want individual instances of any class or style for all sorts of reasons, technical and aesthetic.