Long Text Post
Unlike the previous two, this text post will be very long, and show off common markup within the Tumblr ecosystem. All of the first set of markup is auto-generated by Tumblr's rich text editor, since only nerds use Markdown. Hardcoded HTML is more common.
This is a mention: tigts. This is a link, set to open in a new tab/window.
Bold italics bold & italics strikethrough strikethrough with the previous twoSOME PEOPLE REALLY LIKE ALLCAPS
This image is smaller than the 500px width limit.
This one has automatically been resized to 500px by the built-in uploader.
This one is an externally hosted image inserted into the image's src attribute.
Lists are frequent.
Usually for comedic timing, or "I'm gonna lay down the facts for you tone of voice."
Thankfully, most Tumblr users don't care about the idea of "nesting tags," so it's rare to see lists used for anything complex.
Whether they use an ordered or unordered list for unordered or ordered content is completely up to chance.
Really, the fact that the two have their own HTML tag seems a little inelegant when you think about it. But most of early HTML was very, very inelegant.
Blockquotes aren't used too frequently independently, as they resemble reblogs very closely. It still happens, however, so this example is useful.
That about does it for the built-in rich editor options. Here are some examples of user-constructed custom HTML:
Users love putting odd captions in pre tags. You almost never see them used for actual code, but it could happen.
They also cheat in "small text" using the superscript and subscript tags.
Once upon a time there was a great deal of big(ger) and small(er) tag abuse, but ever since the Dashboard stopped honoring their display their use has dropped off.
receive the sacrament my son lol jk receive acid from the mouth of a skeleton pic.twitter.com/lUt9hKPzym
— Jason Poland (@robbieandbobby) July 17, 2014
You'll also see embedded tweets and other media like this, but again the dashboard doesn't display them for security reasons so they're not common unless below a read more break. Speaking of which...