Dreamwidth tips and observations.

[teres]

Given that I've made some observations and tips on my own journals over time, I thought it was time to share them a bit wider, so here goes:

• If you want to fine-tune your style, this page is the place to do it! You can use any CSS you want there.


• If you want to remove another user's custom CSS from your view, open the console, put in "$('style').remove();" and press Enter.


• To show people a details tag is clickable, add 'style="cursor: pointer"' to it.


• If you want to expand all comments on a Dreamwidth page, you can open the console (F12 on Windows), paste this: "$('a:contains("Expand")').click();", and then hit Enter!


• If you're navigating via the "previous 20/next 20" (or whatever amount you have) links, the furthest back you can go in plain view is 699 entries. If following the back link would land you at 700 or above, you'll get the same page as you just had. Trying to go back from there, or from a page reached by manually entering a number above 700, will lead you to the day view page for the day before the earliest entry in the overview.
  
  
  Navigating back via tags stops working at a seemingly random point between 500 and 512, and there's no way to go further back from that.


• You may have noticed that titles on Dreamwidth show a tooltip with the title when hovered on. This does not work when the title contains a straight double quotation mark ("), since that makes the title text cut off at the first quotation mark (and means nothing if displayed if the quotation mark is at the beginning). If displaying this title text is important to you, I recommend inserting these quotes by using """ for them.

Comments

Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

That's a great list of tips.

Re: Thank you!

[teres]

Thanks! I'm especially happy with the option to expand all comments; it may be quite slow, but it's still quicker than opening everything by hand and it might have saved me quite some headaches.

[vriddy]

Thanks for sharing! :)

[teres]

I won't pretend that many people will need these tips (aside from the option to expand all comments), but I do think it's nice to have them written out and in an accessible place. You never know!

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

I put the CSS tag on it, so that should help. We do get a fair number of folks looking for instructions here. I watch for new users and point them to this community. So it's great to have different folks sharing their experiences and tips!

Re: Thoughts

[teres]

Thanks for tagging it! I wasn't quite sure what it should get, so that helps. And now that I think about it, this stuff will probably be rather valuable to some people, so I'm happy to post it here!

Re: Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

If you're not sure about tags:

1) Find the list of tags and click the top where it says "most popular tags" or something like that. It'll give you the whole list of available tags in that community. Read down the list to see if anything seems to fit.

2) You can usually ask the moderator or another highly active person for suggestions.

3) Look at similar posts and see what tags they use.

I try to keep an eye on posts here and add tags as needed, but I don't always notice that a post is untagged.