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Royal Road Author Note Box Builder

Build a framed box for your author notes, chapter-end updates, hiatus notices, and schedule changes. Pick a note type for a sensible starting heading and copy, edit the text, then copy HTML or BBCode the Royal Road editor accepts. Download a PNG to post where the Royal Road markup does not render.

Note type

Pick a type for a starting heading and copy in the right tone. Each type sets its own colour. Editing the body keeps your words when you switch types.

Heading

Body (one paragraph per line)

Output format

The Royal Road editor accepts both. HTML is the newer path the site is moving to; BBCode still renders. The image below carries the colours either way.

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Preview

An approximation. Royal Road adds its own thin table border on the published page, so the live box there will look very close to this.

✎ Author's Note

Thank you for reading. New chapters go up Tuesdays and Fridays. If you are enjoying the story, a rating helps more people find it.

HTML for Royal Road

<table style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 80%; background-color: #161616;">
  <tbody>
    <tr><td style="background-color: #2a2a2a; color: #f2f2f2; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; padding: 8px;">✎ Author's Note</td></tr>
    <tr><td style="color: #dddddd; text-align: left; padding: 6px 10px;">Thank you for reading. New chapters go up Tuesdays and Fridays. If you are enjoying the story, a rating helps more people find it.</td></tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

Image (PNG)

Downloads a crisp 2× image of the box you can post to Reddit, Discord, or X, where the Royal Road markup does not render. Royal Road chapters use the markup above.

Where to paste it

Open your chapter in the Royal Road editor, usually at the end where your note goes.
For HTML, click the source code button (the <> icon) to switch to the HTML view, then paste. For BBCode, paste straight into the normal editor.
Put the box where you want the note to appear.
Switch back out of source view. The box shows up as a table you can still edit by hand.

What Royal Road keeps, and what it changes

Background colours, text colours, alignment, and bold survive on the published page, so the HTML output sticks to those. BBCode carries the text colour but not cell backgrounds.
The heading glyph is plain unicode, not an icon font, so it travels with the text. It is decorative: the heading always states the meaning in words, so a reader whose font lacks the glyph still sees a labelled box.
Royal Road forces its own thin table border. Custom border colours and rounded corners show in the editor but do not render once the chapter is live, so the output leaves them out.
Colours use plain hex values in the HTML. You can edit them directly in the pasted markup if you want a shade that is not in the presets.

WriteIDE does this for your whole book, automatically

This tool handles one at a time. WriteIDE is the desktop studio that tracks LitRPG stats, items, skills, and quests across a whole novel, and keeps them correct at every scene.

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