can someone tell me

[mmegaera]

How to put someone's DW username into a DW post or comment? What the HTML is? Thanks!

Comments

[annathepiper]

Like this:

<user name="annathepiper">

You can also get clever by specifying site if you want to mention a user elsewhere, like on LJ:

<user name="annathepiper" site="livejournal.com">

So these would get you annathepiper and annathepiper respectively.

[nishatalitha]

There's a FAQ for LJ users here that should cover the differences in HTML use.

[azurelunatic]

There's also a handy section at the bottom of each Dreamwidth profile to copy the code to link to DW users, on-site or off-site.

[mmegaera]

Oh. Well, that's just too simple [g]. Thanks.

[azurelunatic]

You're welcome. :D

I get a little thrill every time I see it there, because I was the one to file the request for that feature.

[mmegaera]

[g] That's fun.

[mmegaera]

Thank you.

[mmegaera]

Thank you. I wondered if it was [dw user=whatever] the way LJ is [lj user=whatever] (substituting the arrow brackets, of course), but that didn't seem to work.

[annathepiper]

You're welcome! I think they may have chosen to generalize it to "user" so that they could specify the "site" argument.

[mmegaera]

That's actually rather sensible!

[peoppenheimer]

You might find yourself saying that often.