It seems to come up so often...

[prowler1971]

How do I use an lj-cut? What are the other LiveJournal-specific tags?

LJ-CUT

<lj-cut> ... </lj-cut>

This can be used in a journal entry to hide all or part of an entry. When the entry appears in your journal or on someone's Friends page, everything after an <lj-cut> markup tag and before a closing </lj-cut> markup tag will be replaced by a link to the Read Comments page. The Read Comments page always displays the entire entry and any comments made on it. When the <lj-cut> is closed with </lj-cut>, any text placed after the closing </lj-cut> tag will also display on the journal, instead of just on the Read Comments page.

By default, the link will say "Read more...", but if you want it to say something else like "Cut off here", you can write the markup tag as <lj-cut text="Cut off here">

If you wish to see your entry with the <lj-cut> after you have updated your journal, you will have to view your journal. If you go to "view entry", you will see the entry as it appears after clicking on the cut. Additionally, the "preview entry" link will also take you to a view of your entry as it appears after you have clicked on the cut. You will not be able to view your lj-cut when previewing your entry.

This has been a public service brought to you by people who encourage the liberal use of LJ cuts when posting photos, pictures and other things that foul up other people's friends pages.

Comments

[mazianni.livejournal.com]

Your post is too long! You should put it behind a cut!

[prowler1971.livejournal.com]

Ya know... I thought about doing that.

[merlin-v12.livejournal.com]

Thank you for that helpful hint. Those of us who frequently check our LJs by way of a Blackberry also find intensely graphics-heavy pages to be something of a pain. It's a four-inch screen that downloads data at near-dialup speeds!

[keimel.livejournal.com]

I know all my recent postings have been just so long and graphic intense. Sorry, I'll try to do better. ;)