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Royal Road Author Note Box Builder
Build a framed box for author notes, chapter-end updates, hiatus notices, and schedule changes. Copy HTML for Royal Road source view, legacy BBCode for compatible editors, or a PNG for places where markup does not render.
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.
Use HTML in Royal Road's source-code view. BBCode is retained only for legacy editors that explicitly accept it. The image below carries the colours either way.
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. |
<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>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.
Good to know
Questions about this tool
Which kinds of note can I build?
Four: Author's Note, Announcement, Hiatus, and Schedule Update. Each starts with its own heading, a starting body in the right tone, and its own colour. Switching type keeps the words you have already edited.
How do I get the box into a Royal Road chapter?
Copy the HTML, open the chapter in Royal Road's source-code view, paste it where the note should sit, then switch back to the visual editor and check the platform preview before you publish.
When would I use the BBCode or the PNG instead?
BBCode is only for legacy editors that explicitly accept it, and it carries colour on the text rather than on the cells. The PNG is for Reddit, Discord, or X, where Royal Road markup does not render. Royal Road chapters use the HTML.
Does my note leave my browser?
No. The box is built on this page and nothing is uploaded. The small writeide.com mark appears on the downloaded PNG only, and you can switch it off.