LJ bio HTML woes, anyone?

[cloudsinvenice]

Welp, I updated my profile text and apparently broke my LJ profile in the process. I'm using the same raw text there as on my DW profile where it's working fine (though obviously I've changed DW username coding where necessary), and there's only a couple of new bits of HTML there, but now the whole thing is refusing to display properly. Is anyone else having trouble with HTML in LJ bios? I don't want to bother Support if it's just one of those transient bugs, or I've made some really obvious embarrassing coding mistake:


The consuming fandom obsession of my life is the Vampire Chronicles series, and my fandom home is < a href="http://vc-media.dreamwidth.org >< b >VC Media< /b >< /a >. I also hang out a lot at < a href="http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org >< b >Fail Fandom Anon< /b >< /a >/< user name="fail_fandomanon" > because I love pan-fandom and small fandom discussion; that comm is to blame for half the book recs on my Amazon wishlist.

Other things I love and will happily discuss ad nauseum include The Police, Kate Bush, Harry Potter, Marvel comics and movies, comics and movies in general, The Dark Tower, The Stone Dance of the Chameleon, A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones, Code Name Verity, Terminator and Battlestar Galactica. I'm a language and history geek and I sometimes resort to cat picspam when post inspiration is lacking. I'm currently doing a complete rewatch of Jonathan Creek with < user name="teylaminh" >, so you can expect intermittent episode recaps. Also, this year I got obsessed with Hannibal and Breaking Bad. My boyfriend and I are also working our way through Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, and I foresee a need for anime series recs when we finish the second gig box set.

Places I'm in besides this one:

- I cross-post from < a href="http://cloudsinvenice.dreamwidth.org" >Dreamwidth< /a > and < a href="http://cloudsinvenice.insanejournal.com" >InsaneJournal< /a >, though IJ's more of a backup now
- I < a href="http://twitter.com/cloudsinvenice" >tweet< /a > and < a href="http://cloudsinvenice.tumblr.com" >tumbl< /a >
- my themed Tumblrs: < a href="http://the-october-country.tumblr.com" >the-october-country< /a >, where I collect autumnal things; and its counterpart, < a href="http://now-winter-comes-slowly.tumblr.com" >now-winter-comes-slowly< /a >
- my neglected but occasionally inspiration-hit icon journal is at < user name=visionsofthenight >, and my likewise occasional < i >Vampire Chronicles< /i > fan art is at < a href="http://cloudsinvenice.deviantart.com" >deviantART< /a >
- and I'm on < a href="http://ao3.org/cloudsinvenice" >AO3< /a > and < a href="http://cloudsinvenice.pinterest.com" >Pinterest< /a >, albeit quietly


Here's how it's currently displaying on my LJ profile - maybe the error code is indicative of something: http://cloudsinvenice.livejournal.com/profile

Comments

[marymac]

Are you doing the user-name codes like Dreamwidth rather than the LJ code, possibly? I think you have to do < lj user="exampleusername" title="AnExample" > for them to work on LJ.

[cloudsinvenice]

It turned out I'd created a bastardised form of code with elements of both - the tags from DW, but with the quotes from LJ! That'll teach me to do this kind of thing on four hours' sleep!

[pointedulac]

I can't see what's wrong (smarter people than me are weighing in) but it's funny, because i usually have the opposite problem, where my HTML is totally FINE in LJ and then gets all weird in DW. :/ No idea why something that should be streamlined is so wonky.

[cloudsinvenice]

Yeah, I've seen that happen too - got my problem solved though; turns out I'd messed up the name tags!

[gairid]

I don't see anything that looks wrong but I have been known to make some really ridiculout html errors with simple spacing errors.

It could just be LJ having a coughing fit.

[cloudsinvenice]

Apparently I combined elements of both DW and LJ username tags! I'm glad I asked friends rather than bugging support; I sort of sensed that I'd been staring and staring and mmissing something ridiculously obvious!