Like I Want It

You know, I really like BlogCity.  There's one heck of a lot of control over the look and feel of my blog--and I could have more if I really felt like playing around with CSS--and no one bothers to disqualify it when they're naming platforms that can't take their money-making opportunities.  But there's one thing about it that pisses me off: it edits things.

When I type something in the HTML edit box, as I occasionally do, the editor will sometimes change things on me--sometimes it's a matter of where a particular tag sits in the link code, sometimes it's a complete butchering of whatever I tried to put in.  And as far as I can tell there's no way to stop it doing this.  Which is annoying when I'm trying to get something past, say, an automatic checker that doesn't recognize things as valid if the nofollow tag is before the href tag rather than after.  I do not get why this happens.  If the editor doesn't trust me to know how I want my HTML set up, why give me the option at all?

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