Valentine's Day art fests! (& a technical question)

[bluespirit]

The annual Valentine's Day art fests are running again over at sgaartvalentine & h5oartvalentine.

If you'd like to take part as an artist or leave a prompt for some art that you'd like to see, then do pop over & check out the details. (It's a very easy-going challenge with very few rules. *g*)

Also - can anyone help me out please?
In the past, I've done the text area thing that let's a little box show with code for copying & pasting.  But I tried to do this yesterday (to allow the art fest banners to be pimped) & it didn't work - the text inside got changed. :(
I tried to edit it, but it kept changing parts of the code etc to weird stuff.

Edit:
Yay! Sorted - I needed to tick the 'stop auto-format' option in the HTML version.
Thanks to saphirablue & tashirasbubble for the help. :)

Comments

[saphirablue]

Here via f-list surfing:

Do you switch from the HTML view back to the Rich Text View before posting? When I did that it messed up the coding for me too...

[bluespirit-star.livejournal.com]

Aaagh! I think that's what I must have done.
I've tried it as HTML only (& ticked the 'stop auto-formatting option') & it worked!
Thank you kindly. :)

[saphirablue]

:) You are welcome. I had once to fight (and search and search and search) with this too until I discovered that the RTE messed the coding up...

[tashirasbubble.livejournal.com]

Did you tick the box to stop auto formating on the HTML tab...I know that has messed my code up a number of times...it needs to be ticked to use pure HTML code.

[bluespirit-star.livejournal.com]

Yay! It worked - thank you so much. :)

[tashirasbubble.livejournal.com]

You are very welcome - glad I could help :)