The
Post an Entry page has two ways to update or later edit your journal entries. The Rich Text editor offers buttons for styling and formatting your entry; the HTML editor allows you to directly enter
HTML code with your entry. You can switch between the Rich Text editor and the HTML editor at any time by clicking on the tabs next to the entry's Subject field. You may also choose either editor as your default using the options on the
Display tab of the My Account Settings page.
The Rich Text editor requires JavaScript and might not work with some web browsers. You may be able to use the Rich Text editor by upgrading your browser to the latest version and making sure that JavaScript is enabled. Otherwise, you will either need to use the HTML editor, update your journal using a different browser, or use a
downloadable client with similar Rich Text features.
Entry Auto-Save
While you are logged in, the
Post an Entry page uses JavaScript to save your entry text every 30 seconds; other entry settings (such as the selected userpic) are not saved. When you reopen the Post an Entry page, you will be prompted to restore the entry from the auto-save draft. The draft will be cleared when you post your entry or choose to discard the auto-save draft.
If your browser does not support auto-save or you cannot enable JavaScript, you can save drafts of your entries on your computer or use a
downloadable client with draft and auto-save features; check your individual client's documentation for additional information.
Pasting text from external applications
If you paste an entry from an external application (such as a word processing program) into the Rich Text Editor, and if your browser, operating system, and application support it, the Rich Text Editor will
automatically insert HTML markup to preserve the formatting. To avoid this, you can switch to the HTML editor before you paste your text into the entry (this will remove all the tags and formatting that would have been inserted with the text), or switch to it afterward (this will show the tags and will let you remove the ones you don't want).
Note that pasting from some applications will sometimes add characters that are not UTF-8 and cause
error messages or incorrect characters.