Minor Technical Issue With The Forum Software

[LadyMapi]

Hey everyone!

I have noticed a pretty annoying little glitch with the WYSIWYG editor.

If you start a line in bold or italics, then hitting the bold/italics button or shortcut again doesn't work properly.

For example, this is what happens if I type the following into the editor:

<ctrl+B>Starting A Bold Line:<ctrl+B> This is what I'm writing here.

Starting A Bold Line:This is what I'm writing here.

For comparison, this is what happens if I do this instead:

!<ctrl+B>Starting A Bold Line:<ctrl+B> This is what I'm writing here.

!Starting A Bold Line: This is what I'm writing here.

Or this:

<ctrl+B>Starting A Bold Line:<ctrl+B>!This is what I'm writing here.

Starting A Bold Line:!This is what I'm writing here.

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Visually, what happens is that I type the space and then the editor immediately deletes it, turns bold/italics back on, and then goes from there. I've noticed this glitch in other situations, but I couldn't replicate them for this post.

 

[Jason Waddell]

This is a good observation but I don't know if there's anything we can do to change this part of the xenforo code.

 

[LadyMapi]

This is a good observation but I don't know if there's anything we can do to change this part of the xenforo code.

I was worried that that would be the answer.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

I never encountered this issue because I always use forum code, so in your example, I would not hit <ctrl+B>, I would instead type:

[b]Starting A Bold Line:[/b] This is what I'm writing here.

Which would look like this:
Starting A Bold Line: This is what I'm writing here.

Below are the ones I use the most:

[i] & [/i] = italics
[u] & [/u] = underlined
[list] & [/list] = a list
[*] = a list bullet (doesn't need to be closed, so you'll never use [/*])

E.g.

[list][*]First item
[*]Second item
[*]Third item[/list]

looks like this:

• First item
• Second item
• Third item

 

[LadyMapi]

Oh, don't worry Onder — I know bbcode (I've been using it in one way or another since I was 14-15 or so)... I'm just lazy and the WYSIWYG editor is the default. I just thought I'd lodge a "bug report" in case someone could do something.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Oh, don't worry Onder — I know bbcode (I've been using it in one way or another since I was 14-15 or so)... I'm just lazy and the WYSIWYG editor is the default. I just thought I'd lodge a "bug report" in case someone could do something.

As a professional software tester, I can only approve of this

 

[James Stevenson]

Cool!

 

[James Stevenson]

For what it's worth, I do have a newer xenforo downloaded, but haven't done the upgrade. One day!