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kemayo — Escaping your troubles with bcode
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Published: 2014-10-11 20:42:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 11840; Favourites: 9; Downloads: 0
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A not uncommon source of requests for help with journals/comments/etc on DeviantArt is:
How can I talk about HTML markup without all that stuff you try to do to help me with markup getting in the way? I don't want things to magically become markup, or get turned into links, or anything like that.
The solution to your problems is the completely made up and non-standard tag:
Anything inside a
For instance: 
Was literally:
Editing to add: this may get a little messed up if you're using Writer and you expect it to work across paragraphs. It'll work most-reliably if you're using the raw HTML input via ctrl-e.
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This is so awesome!
This is the AWESOMEST HTML tip I've ever seen.
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Hot damn! This is the best HTML tip I've ever seen!
I can't even begin to tell you how many wild methods I've used to escape a URL. I am so going to use this!!
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The second reson is the html code isn't fuly secured so there is big issues with security with it a dell but is also more secured to use the later method with is easier and more secured to use.
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Don't fret; we do a lot of screening of what's allowed to avoid security issues.
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he whoever I know there are lot of security isuess here
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Well, if you know of any, please feel free to tell me and they'll get fixed!
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I own a own webb site I had made Solo so I know what Im taking about
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I'm going to read that as you saying "I don't actually know of any security issues on DeviantArt", 'kay?
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becurse is isnt alway visseble for the blink of your eye but trust me it will be then it get noticed they someone try t´do something and it just refuse to do as it shukd
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HTML already has a method of doing this... < and >
By adding an imaginary tag called bcode, you end up with a recursive problem of being unable to describe bcode tags themselves.
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Oh, I should say, this isn't something new I've added. This has been around for somewhere over 8 years at this point, attaining the coveted status of "legacy feature that nobody knows about".
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Wait, 
tag all in one, while escaping <, right? Doesn't writer/writing comments keep the whitespace, finally, without bcode?
Anyway, yeah the recursive escaping you have to do is just part of the fun of HTML, right? I'm pretty used to it by now 
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The formatting in the chat system is largely the same as the formatting everywhere else, after all...
Comments/journals don't need the pre side of it, I admit.
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Undocumented features are awesome, aren't they? A bit like CTRL+E on the WYSIWIG editor.
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We have to do something to keep the power users happy, right? (Another tip: paste by doing cmd-shift-v instead of just cmd-v, and you won't have deviation links turned into thumbs, or lists marked up with asterisks turned into proper HTML lists...)
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Well, one might describe
Anyway, the escaping of tags is a secondary benefit. The real purpose is to not do the magic stuff we do on top of regular HTML. So I can use it to :D or talk about :thumb487831638: codes, or mention URLs (like in that example img tag) without them being turned into links.
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OK, that's a fair enough reason. Having a way to stop parsing of other codes is something long-due.
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WOW OMG I'M SO HAPPY TO FIND THIS! YOU ARE AMAZING KEMAYO :U THIS IS SO COOL
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Writer can get a bit confused by tags that cross linebreaks, because block elements.
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