TagClouder

[undyingking]

I've added a feature to the TagClouder such that it now offers you the raw HTML to paste into your own page, etc. Unfortunately it comes out like this:

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books car

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Presumably LJ is stripping out the <style> ... </style> for security reasons or some such... any thoughts for ways round this? I could go back to doing it with text attributes I suppose, but that seems a bit retrograde...
Any thoughts about this or further improvements welcome!

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Edit: now a trial with no internal style spec, but linking to an external stylesheet:
books car

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Bah, no better.

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Edit: now a trial with inline style:
books car

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oho! -- that looks more promising. Unfortuatnely it involves hacking into the <a> tag, which I'm keen to avoid doing as it will require all manner of hideous regexping. And it this way really any better than using <font>?

Comments

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Well, that seems to work OK, but is it really much better than using <font> like I was in the original pre-CSS version?

[chrisvenus]

yes. <font> is deprecated. :)

Also CSS is likely to play more nicely with other style stuff (eg if I want my default font sizes to be twice as big then CSS will probably scale nicely whereas <font> probably won't.

In general though whether it is any better really depends on what criteria you are using to measure.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Bah, hideous regexps I guess it is then! -- but not today ;-)