Help--I'm so pathetic (sometimes)

[shadownyc]

I want to copy the name of another LJ user from my flist into an entry (to tag someone) but I have no idea how to do this. I tried to highlight an LJ name and then right click to do a typical copy/paste but that is clearly not the way. Could someone comment with step by step instructions? Once I know how to do things they become second nature, but I need to be "walked" through slowly the first time around with detailed instructions. Thank you to whoever out there can help!

Comments

[mclachlan.livejournal.com]

This is starting to drive me crazy. I'm sorry I keep bombarding you with comments and deleting them. LJ just doesn't want me to help you.

<
lj user
=
"
NAME HERE
"
/>

[shadownyc.livejournal.com]

Thanks for all your help!

[negativeerin.livejournal.com]

Hey, what you want to do use an lj tag that makes the user's name appear:



Type < lj user="whoever" > taking the spaces out after the first carrot and before the last. You'll get this, negativeerin, for example.

[shadownyc.livejournal.com]

Thank you, now I'll give it a try!

[moose74.livejournal.com]

I think this is what you are talking about:

You type: < lj user="moose74" > Just take the spaces out between the carets <> and the text and you'll get: moose74.

Or, you know, whomever's user name you want in there! :P

[shadownyc.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the advice, I'm going to give it a shot!

[luceononuro.livejournal.com]

put lj user="user name here"

between < >

and you have it

[shadownyc.livejournal.com]

Thanks for helping me out!

[fiercediva.livejournal.com]

There are 2 ways. If you do your posts in HTML, you just enter

[lj user="name" /] but use these < > instead of the [] brackets.
(I had to do that so the text wouldn't show up as user. )

If you use the rich text for posts, there is a little icon/button with a user "head" on it; if you choose it at the point where you want to insert the LJ user's name, it pops up a dialog box and you just put the user name in the box and enter, and the LJ name is automatically inserted into your post.

[shadownyc.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for the explanation!

[bloodyrose82.livejournal.com]

You mean link someone in your post? Their journal rather than a specific post (for instance, like how I put my beta's name each time I update my series?).

If so, this is what you do:

1) Go to update your journal and click on the rich text option just below the text box.
2) When the page loads, you will see a little row of buttons above it (a B on the left hand side, arrows on the right).
3) You see the little man with the blue shirt icon, fourth from the right? Click on that.
4) A little box saying 'Explorer User Prompt' will come up. It asks you to enter a username. Type it in exactly how it appears (eg: shadownyc) and click okay.
5) The user name will now appear in the text box next to the 'little man wearing a shirt' symbol. When you have finished writing your post, click 'update journal' as you would normally. The name will be highlighted and will now be a link.

I hope that's what you meant, and that instructions are clear enough. :)

[shadownyc.livejournal.com]

Thank you for all your help!

[jule1122.livejournal.com]

I'm generally LJ illiterate but I actually know how to do this. It's in the FAQs, but use these symbols <> inside them type lj user="ljname" with no spaces between the beginning and ending symbols and the text. jule

[shadownyc.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much--the FAQ's sometimes make me crazy.

[vedaprophet.livejournal.com]

use this code:
<lj user="vedaprophet">
to make vedaprophet

see? replace vedaprophet in the code with whatever the user's name is. :)

[shadownyc.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the code and example, I really appreciate it!

[thelocation.livejournal.com]

Do you still need help with this?

[shadownyc.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I'm all set!

[twistinside82.livejournal.com]

The tag for LJ user names is this:

< lj user="username" >

Just without the spaces between the first < and the lj, and the last " and the last >. :D

Also, to make your ficlet request from the Lizathon Lottery, just send negativeerin an e-mail at negativeerin@livejournal.com . :D

[shadownyc.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your help. Erin wrote a great fic for me entitled, "One". I was so giddy when I read it. It makes knowing all kinds of trivia worth while. :)

[strlingdragnfly.livejournal.com]

It's pretty simple. Here's the code - just remove the spaces EXCEPT for the one between lj and user.

< lj user = " name of journal " >

[shadownyc.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your help!

[darksylvia.livejournal.com]

Um, you should be able to copy-paste. But to make it into an official link/tag, you do:

lj user="username"

Except with HTML brackets around that. Did that make sense?

[shadownyc.livejournal.com]

Thanks, that DID make sense!

[finnfan.livejournal.com]

You mean do this finnfan ??

You just write (lj user="nameofthepersonyouwanttotag")
but replace ( and ) with < and >.

Hope this was what you meant.

[shadownyc.livejournal.com]

Thanks, you guys are so great!

[severina2001.livejournal.com]

[lj user="severina2001"]

except instead of [ ] you use < >

[shadownyc.livejournal.com]

Thank you!