>But why would it affect your entire flist and not just my entry? That's odd....<
Because your entry shows up on my Flist page, html and all. Any unclosed tags in any one entry will affect everything beneath that entry on that page.
If I were to open a <b> tag in this comment, and not close it, every comment that got posted beneath mine (anything that showed up physically under it, regardless of threading or post times) would show up in bold face, until someone else though to throw in a </b> to close it.
I've had all kinds of things happen to my Flist like that. Just last week, Heather posted to her LJ a table that had some seriously screwy code in it, and it turned my entire Flist into mashed potatoes, basically (parts of one entry showing up in the middle of another, for no apparent reason), until it scrolled off the front page. I don't think she changed the code on that table though, so if you scroll back, you'd probably still see one page that has some *serious* formatting issues. :)
I've had people turn my entire Flist bold, I've seen other people's Flists that were almost entirely like this because someone forgot to close a strike tag, and I myself once turned my entire Recent Entires page into one gigantic link to the Save Katie campaign, because I did exactly what you did... I put <a/> instead of </a>.
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Because your entry shows up on my Flist page, html and all. Any unclosed tags in any one entry will affect everything beneath that entry on that page.
If I were to open a <b> tag in this comment, and not close it, every comment that got posted beneath mine (anything that showed up physically under it, regardless of threading or post times) would show up in bold face, until someone else though to throw in a </b> to close it.
I've had all kinds of things happen to my Flist like that. Just last week, Heather posted to her LJ a table that had some seriously screwy code in it, and it turned my entire Flist into mashed potatoes, basically (parts of one entry showing up in the middle of another, for no apparent reason), until it scrolled off the front page. I don't think she changed the code on that table though, so if you scroll back, you'd probably still see one page that has some *serious* formatting issues. :)
I've had people turn my entire Flist bold, I've seen other people's Flists that were almost entirely
like thisbecause someone forgot to close a strike tag, and I myself once turned my entire Recent Entires page into one gigantic link to the Save Katie campaign, because I did exactly what you did... I put <a/> instead of </a>.:D