Formatting issues

[BOF]

With the old forum you could turn off the auto-formatting in the top left of the editing window and you could just write what you wanted and it would appear that way.

With the button turned off :

Test

Test

Test

would appear as

Test

Test

Test

But now that same post gets posted as

Test Test Test

because at the point of submission it is being interpreted as HTML and the flat text (obviously) doesn't contain BR tags.  So now the only way to format anything is with Source turned on - which is no bueno.

 

[limpid]

You mean source turned off.

[BOF]

On the old forum it was a switch.  It behaved differently to our new "source" switch.  We've lost the ability to format our posts ourselves.  Now it's HTML or nothing at all.

[limpid]

It's WYSIWIG or HTML. WYSIWIG isn't "nothing" 

[BOF]

This post has each word on its own line with the source button turned off.

[BOF]

The above post was what came from the below composed post. So in terms of formatting, WYSIWIG certainly seems, at the very least, analagous to nothing.

 

Edited September 3, 2015 by BOF

[BOF]

I've just looked up what WYSIWYG means and now I believe I'll be able to explain it to you (if the above posts don't do that).

 

The WYSIWYG editor does not result in WYSIWYG posts (it did in the past, but not now).  It results in everything on the one line regardless of WYSIWYG formatting because it is all being interpreted as HTML code.

 

Phew!

[limpid]

Don't press the source button then....

[BOF]

I didn't !

 

I'll try again.   Whether source is on or off, it doesn't matter, on or off at the point of posting, it will always be interpreted as HTML.  You NEVER get WYSIWYG.  You ALWAYS get HTML.  Please understand me this time :/

Edited September 3, 2015 by BOF

[limpid]

The WYSIWIG editor is what you get if you don't click the Source button. Don't click it and what you type is what gets posted.

This

is

one

word

per

line

[BOF]

Testing with source turned off in Chrome to see if it's uniquely a Firefox issue Loads of lovely new lines. No source

[BOF]

Nope, still not getting WYSIWYG. I'm aware that source turned off is the WYSIWYG editor. But I'm not getting anything but completely unformatted posts. And that's within Chrome and Firefox now. Oh well.

[limpid]

This is being written in the WYSIWIG editor. I'm pressing return here

and here

and here

This seems to be working. If this is not working for you, can you try an incognito window in case it's something you've added to your browser?

[BOF]

The visible <br \> tags are still appearing on my mobile's tapatalk app (Samsung Galaxy S4) but they don't appear on my tablet's tapatalk app (Samsung Galaxy Tab 3  8").

[limpid]

I'm sorry, but I can't help with tap\talk. I've just double checked and the Tapatalk software on the server is up to date. That's all I can do. Have you tried clearing app data or reinstalling?

[BOF]

I'll re-install.  Now that I know you can't deal with tapatalk issues I'll stop bugging you with them

[limpid]

It does say it in the notes at the top of the forum 

[BOF]

Ahem, indeed ...