What is "hardcoding"?

[doodlemancy]

I just joined a community and read their rules and it says "please don't hardcode your entries".

I cannot for the life of me find a definition of "hardcode" anywhere, at least not in the context of Dreamwidth. Doesn't seem to be on the jargon page of the wiki. What does that mean? Also is it generally unwelcome in communities, whatever it is?

Edit: thank you! I have been educated!!! I had totally forgotten about this aspect of journaling sites.

Comments

[trobadora]

It means using html to code fonts, font size, text colour or background in your entries. People generally don't like it because it makes things hard to read or may even make them invisible on a different background - most people read DW via their reading list, which is in their own style, and everyone's is different. Hardcoding overrides that.

[doodlemancy]

Gotcha! That makes sense! Thanks so much.