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Editing and quoting works strangely https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=53478.msg1122549#msg1122549
« on: January 22, 2014, 02:24:43 pm »
I have to say that this forum has the weirdest way of quoting and editing posts that I've seen in any forum.  If you quote another post, it appears already formatted as html which means that you can't, for example, break up the quote into different paragraphs and reply to each one.  You have to toggle the view and add the html formatting (of "blockquote") yourself.  Then you have to toggle the view back, otherwise, rather than making what you've quoted be a quote, you end up with the text "blockquote" at the start and end of your quotes.

And I've just noticed another oddity.  I just made a post in which I used a couple of the elements smilies: :time :darkness  Then I realised that I needed to change something, so hit "modify".  Rather than appearing as ": time" without the space, the smilie now appeared as an actual smilie.  Which is great, except that when I posted the amended post, the smilies, evidently not recognised by the html interface, showed up as ".." and I had to go back and edit them back in.

My question is - is this actually any better than more standard forum software that just uses BBCode?  I can't see any advantages, and it's almost unfailingly a pain in the arse.

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Re: Editing and quoting works strangely https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=53478.msg1122550#msg1122550
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2014, 02:32:54 pm »
... We do use BBCode.

Just tested the elements "smilies" and I didn't see any problem with editing.
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Re: Editing and quoting works strangely https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=53478.msg1122551#msg1122551
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2014, 02:34:48 pm »
The quote function isn't html. The only ones who can implement html are Admins. I can't say I understand your difficulties with quoting either. You just do
Code: [Select]
[quote author=ElementalDearWatson]pain in the arse[/quote] and get
Quote from: ElementalDearWatson
pain in the arse

Or you click to quote someone's post and get it automatically along with the date of the post. If you want to keep the date, you just copy and paste that part of the BBcode. Example:

Code: [Select]
[quote author=ElementalDearWatson link=topic=53478.msg1122549#msg1122549 date=1390400683]arse
[/quote]
creates
arse

I have literally no idea how quanta symbols could become "..". It'd be one thing if they were just doing : time instead of :time.
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Re: Editing and quoting works strangely https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=53478.msg1122553#msg1122553
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2014, 02:46:04 pm »
Quote<blockquote>testing
testing</blockquote><blockquote>testing some more</blockquote>


Edit: Got it.

Likely, you started in the wrong view, the what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor on this forum is horrible. If I quote something, it appears as BBCode the way Higs has shown (at least for me), but if I make a quote in BBCode way and toggle the view, weird stuff with blockquotes starts happening.
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Re: Editing and quoting works strangely https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=53478.msg1122568#msg1122568
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2014, 05:14:29 pm »
Quote from: the dictator on Today at 02:46:04 PM<blockquote>Quote<blockquote>testing
testing</blockquote><blockquote>testing some more</blockquote>


Edit: Got it.

Likely, you started in the wrong view, the what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor on this forum is horrible. If I quote something, it appears as BBCode the way Higs has shown (at least for me), but if I make a quote in BBCode way and toggle the view, weird stuff with blockquotes starts happening.



</blockquote>

When I hit quote I get this, same as The dictator

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Re: Editing and quoting works strangely https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=53478.msg1122642#msg1122642
« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2014, 01:01:03 am »
That smiley thing happened before to me, and it seems to be from the same problem as the other: Just go to your Look and Layout settings and untick "Show WYSIWYG editor on post page by default".
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Re: Editing and quoting works strangely https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=53478.msg1122673#msg1122673
« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2014, 10:13:35 am »
So, basically, the "toggle view" button (or the WYSIWYG view in general) is bugged when it comes to certain bbc tags, specifically [quote][/quote]?

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Re: Editing and quoting works strangely https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=53478.msg1122802#msg1122802
« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2014, 02:55:01 am »
That smiley thing happened before to me, and it seems to be from the same problem as the other: Just go to your Look and Layout settings and untick "Show WYSIWYG editor on post page by default".

Ah, that looks like it.  Thanks, guys.

Testing :time

[Edit]Yup, that's fine now.  Thanks, all.

 

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