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I've lost count of the number of upgrades the forum has had since inception, but it has always amused and intrigued me that the 'Competitions' section has never been either reinvigorated or removed 😱🙂 I think the last competition was for the forum's 5th birthday - 11 years ago! 😱🙂
I've lost count of the number of upgrades the forum has had since inception, but it has always amused and intrigued me that the 'Competitions' section has never been either reinvigorated or removed 😱🙂 I think the last competition was for the forum's 5th birthday - 11 years ago! 😱🙂
I'm using dark mode, so I don't know if the bug only exists in dark mode, but I copy and paste from a spreadsheet, and it shows in the editor as a perfectly functional table.
Then I hit the post button, and it loses formatting. The bug is repeatable.
It posts as the kind of mess you see below here
[td]
[/td]
[td]
BMI
[/td]
[td]
WWI
[/td]
[td]
underweight'
[/td]
[td]
<18.5
[/td]
[td]
<8.83
[/td]
[td]
normal
[/td]
[td]
18.5 - 20
[/td]
[td]
8.93 - 9.22
[/td]
[td]
normal' - maybe good target to reduce to
I'm using dark mode, so I don't know if the bug only exists in dark mode, but I copy and paste from a spreadsheet, and it shows in the editor as a perfectly functional table. View attachment 31401
Then I hit the post button, and it loses formatting. The bug is repeatable.
I’m not sure if that’s a bug, or just the sort of html clean-up that most forum systems have in place to prevent raw code being posted or rogue content/code being ‘injected’.
There’s usually a part of the system that re-encodes or cleans-up any posted content, and then another part that renders allowable content (eg links) from the converted text.
It looks like the editor is happy to accept
Code:
<table>
...
</table>
and turn it into
Code:
[table]
...
[/table]
(note the different tag styles)
But that the post rendering system isn’t designed to re-convert the adjusted/sanitised tags to their proper html equivalents to render a table element that could potentially break the layout?
A similar thing happens when I want to copy my Wordle results onto the forum and has done from long before the upgrade. I didn't think it was enough of a problem to make an issue of it with it being just a fun quiz and not relevant to diabetes management. Like you, it shows correctly copied in my post as I am composing it, but when I hit the "post reply" button, it comes up unintelligible in the thread.
A similar thing happens when I want to copy my Wordle results onto the forum and has done from long before the upgrade. I didn't think it was enough of a problem to make an issue of it with it being just a fun quiz and not relevant to diabetes management. Like you, it shows correctly copied in my post as I am composing it, but when I hit the "post reply" button, it comes up unintelligible in the thread.
I’m not sure if that’s a bug, or just the sort of html clean-up that most forum systems have in place to prevent raw code being posted or rogue content/code being ‘injected’.
There’s usually a part of the system that re-encodes or cleans-up any posted content, and then another part that renders allowable content (eg links) from the converted text.
No problem, I just flagged it in case it was a hangover from the upgrade.
This was the first time I tried posting something which just happened to be in a spreadsheet, It's no big deal, I'm unlikely to want to do that again for a while, and if I do I'll know to avoid it 🙂
But that the post rendering system isn’t designed to re-convert the adjusted/sanitised tags to their proper html equivalents to render a table element that could potentially break the layout
Whilst on the forum I always think of Mike as 'Eduad' in my head, pronounced as in Edward without the R. B good that his user name comes up so quick once you start typing it ain't it!
Whilst on the forum I always think of Mike as 'Edwad' in my head, pronounced as in Edward without the R. B good that his user name comes up so quick once you start typing it ain't it!
The first time I went to a forum meet in Bristol, I hadn’t met any of the attendees, and spotting someone I thought was probably Mike, from his avatar photo, I approached and said 'oh, are you…'.at which point all I could think of was Eduad! Luckily he helped me out, and at the sight of this strange woman goldfishing in front of him, said 'Oh hello, are you Robin!' (which considering my avatar is always a horse….)