Livejournal question

[sholio]

Help, help. Can anyone who is wise in the ways of LJ-fu tell me how to set my preferences so that I'll get the HTML/plain text editor rather than the rich text editor when I post an entry? I've never had to do that before, because when I signed up for my other accounts (which was 3 or 4 years ago) the rich text editor wasn't even an option, and it's stayed defaulted to the other. However, the rich text editor seems to be the default now, and I can't figure out how to switch it for my new account. Going nuts! Help!

EDIT: Restarting the browser seems to have stopped the format switching and gotten it to stay on the last one I used. How odd. Thanks for the comments, everyone!

EDIT2, SON OF EDIT: This has nothing to do with the above, but a very handy little tip I got from dossier to get rid of those mega-annoying "SNAP" pop-ups over links --
go to http://www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/ and uncheck "Enable graphic previews on external links within your journal" to make 'em go away. That had been driving me MAD and I thought it might help someone else.

EDIT3, EDIT FROM THE BLACK LAGOON: And to get rid of the pop-ups on your friendlist, instructions are here: http://spacecowb0y.livejournal.com/281574.html (hat tip to dossier and abyssinia4077)

Comments

[alessandriana.livejournal.com]

When you post the entry, you'll see two tabs at the top right corner; one's for rich text, the other's for HTML.

[sholio]

I know, but rich text is the default, and since that's never what I want, I always have to switch every time I post or edit anything. This is going to get really old, really fast. I've also had a bit of trouble with losing all my formatting and paragraph returns when I hit "edit" and then switch to HTML; I *think* I know what's causing it and how to make it stop, but it's still very annoying.

[alessandriana.livejournal.com]

---Really? Once I switch mine, that's it; it remembers that I want it as HTML and doesn't switch back unless I manually switch it.

[sholio]

I tried quitting the browser and logging out and back in, and now it seems to be staying on HTML. Huh! I also had to delete and repost my post-dated entry to get it to allow me to post anything else (editing the date to "post-date" didn't work), so maybe LJ is just being a bastard to me today.

[rigel-7.livejournal.com]

t might have something to do with which viewing style you have as default.

If you have "Horizon" or "Vertigo" as default, then I think the rich text editor *stabs it* is automatically loaded when you write a post.

I have good old "XColibur" and HTML defaults for me.

You can change your preferences here (http://www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/?view=schemes), as they don't appear as options on the regular manage settings page.

Hope that works!

[sholio]

Thanks for the tip! Oddly, it seems to be staying on HTML now that I've quit and restarted the browser and done a couple of test posts, so perhaps there was a stuck cookie or something weird like that. If it does it again, I'll try this. *joins you in stabbing the rich text editor*

[naye]

I'd gotten the impression that it just remembered my last choice - if I ever use the rich text editor, I'll have to reset it to HTML when I post my next entry. I don't know what else it could be - I'm used to getting the HTML automatically, but then again, I've been using my LJ for years now...

[sholio]

Yeah ... in fact, for my "friendshipper" account, rich text is not even an option, which I'm certainly not complaining about.

However, restarting the browser seems to have gotten it to stay in HTML mode, so perhaps it was just some sort of weirdness with cookies or browser flakiness or something...

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

on the snap thing: that gets rid of them to your journal - so they'll still be on your flist.

Go here for instructions on how to never see them ever on anyone else's journal (I think I knelt down in gratitude when I found this): http://spacecowb0y.livejournal.com/281574.html

[sholio]

Oh, thanks! I actually got that from dossier too, but I hadn't done it since I don't use AdBlock (that I'm aware of, anyway). I'll edit it into the above post.

What really baffles me is why ANYONE at LJ thought it would be a good idea to do this in the first place!

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

I'd never heard of Adblock but I hate those snap things so much I downloaded it just so I could use it here.

What really baffles me is why ANYONE at LJ thought it would be a good idea to do this in the first place!

I know! I haven't seen a single user say anything good about it. Makes me wonder: if they make a new feature and everyone HATES it, can we get them to remove it?

[anniehow.livejournal.com]

God, thank you! Those pop up thingies were driving me crackers (tacit assent should be banned. seriously)

[sholio]

You're welcome! They're really annoying...

[greyias.livejournal.com]

I actually managed to turn them off within the stupid thing themselves yesterday. There's a tiny little option, a button in the top hand corner of the previews that says "disable" (I think... I turned them off and I'm not willing to turn them back on for sake of clarity). It then brings up this sad, guilt-inducing message "Do you really want to send me away? :( ", and when you tell it "YES!", they disappear. They haven't showed up for me on two computers, so it might be an alternative to those who don't use AdBlock.

[sholio]

Oh! Thanks for the tip! I'll give that a try.