Go away semicolon!

In the weblog I posted tonight, I tried to use some html code so as to make a phrase link to one of my cels in my gallery. However, when I hit the "submit" button, RS inserted a semicolon in my code, effectively breaking it. I tried logging out, deleting my cookies, and logging back in, but the semicolon still haunted me. Perhaps I'm just messing my code up, but I don't think so . . . here's what I wrote:

<a href="link.com" target=_blank> phrase </a>

So, is the blog just not set up to incorporate html code? Or is this just a little bug that I lucked out in finding? :P

Yeah I've been wondering about this too... None of my html tags work in the blog so it must be disabled. If anyone knows please inform us! Thank you.

i don't know about you, but each time i maneuver my mouse over the recent gallery updates on the front page to see what people have added that text box of new stuff follows me everywhere on the site. i think there's a bug in the system. :)

Hmmm, hadn't noticed that, and I just checked, and it doesn't seem to follow me around. I've used html in my blog before, but only to add italics or change the color of a word or two. It works for little things like that. I'll have to go back to see if I ever tried to link with html before. I don't think I have.