Tags#
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Sometimes, it can be useful to add information about a passage that is not visible to readers. Tags are a way to do this. They function as labels stuck on the side of a passage, visible to only the author while writing.
A tag can be any series of letters, numbers, or punctuation without spaces. Passages can have multiple tags.
Special tags#
There are some tags that have special meaning to Twine. They change how the story behaves or appears. These special tags are described below.
- annotation: An annotation
- stylesheet: A CSS stylesheet. Additional tags (excluding transition) can be applied to restrict this stylesheet to specific passages.
- transition: Signifies that the stylesheet defines a CSS transition. Should only appear alongside the stylesheet tag. Has no particular meaning when applied to an ordinary passage.
- script: A JavaScript script that will be run before the story starts. Used primarily to install custom scripts or macros.
- bookmark: A passage that will appear in Sugarcane's Rewind menu
- nobr: Causes all of the line breaks in the passage to be removed, as if the entire passage was contained in a
<<nobr>>
macro. - Twine.private: A passage which will not be included at all in the compiled HTML file
- startup: Signifies that the passage can be used to initialize variables. Currently a feature only on Harlowe