Dreamwidth Tools addon: I'm going to work on some pages, but not on others!
Me: why

I'm so sorry to people who get the actions and they're not Smallified. I haven't figured out how to do that on my own every single time.

just <small></small> around the brackets

sucks that the addon isn't working properly :/

One day I will memorize this. (Probably fairly soon, thankfully) I keep getting it mixed up with <s> </s> which I think might actually be strikethrough?

yep, that's strikethrough!

I mix them up too

I've been re-learning basic HTML off and on for about 20 years now, and it's amazing how it never quite sticks!

haha yeah... I'm kinda the same. I know the basic formatting stuff pretty well due to being on LJ and DW for so long, but anything beyond that is also beyond me

At least you've got the basics! All I consistently remember are b,i,u, and that / closes a code. I am having fun playing with premade fancy things though, since even I can change colours, and am okay at changing dimensions.

yeah, that's about the extent of my solid knowledge

also textarea and blockquote, just about

you know what was a pain? when it was trendy in LJRP to make your text sparkly

What's text area and block quote?

H-HOW DO YOU MAKE TEXT SPARKLY?

text area is how you make those small textboxes that you can copy/paste text from!

OH! Thank you! I've been wondering how to do that! I plan to overhaul my permissions a little so there's a description of things and some other things are less wordy, so when I do that I'll try to put in the text area with the codes to reply to it with!

block quote makes the text look all fancy. like it makes the sides look even and pulls them in a little.

haha yep!

Ooooh. I'm gonna have to give that a try some time!

yeah there used to be code for making text blink way back when but I don't think it works on DW

I don't exactly miss blinky sparkly text but it was... fun?

Oh my gosh. It sounds like an accessability nightmare, but also: Sparkles can add dramatic flair.

<blockquote> like.. indents the block of text a little bit

Ohhh! Like in a magazine or article?

hang on let me do a demonstration

ralltiir | (no subject)

some dreamwidth layouts also do fancy things with blockquotes, like so:

OH! This makes perfect sense! Thank you so much!