No 'Source' Button in the Editor

[Chewie]

When starting a new post or creating a reply, the source button in the editor isn't available...

Since screen-shotting the image I have now tried it with...

FireFox 40.0.3
Chrome 45.0.2454.85 (64-bit) (+Incognito mode)
Safari 8.0.8
^ All on OSX Yosemite 10.10.5

Firefox 40.0.3
Microsoft Edge
Microsoft Internet Explorer
^ All on Windows 10

Also tried through 2 different ISPs.

[snowychap]

I, too, don't have the source button.

 

Winduhs 7 and Firefox (also tried on IE).

 

Cleared cookies and cache.

Edited September 6, 2015 by snowychap

[Tegis]

Did a test on Ubuntu Gnome 15.05 with both Chromium 44.0.2403.89 and Firefox 37.0 with the same result.

Have also tried Windows 10 and 8.1 from different networks and different computers with firefox 41.0 and chrome 45.0.2454.85

Cookies and cache cleared and incognito tested.

[limpid]

Thanks, I'll escalate this.

[limpid]

One issue per topic please.

[limpid]

Hi,

Is this still a problem?

[Tegis]

It is on this PC. I'll check some of the others

[snowychap]

Hi,

Is this still a problem?

Still the same here. (Cookiies and cache cleared and Firefox just tried - I'll have a go on IE later).

[limpid]

Just to be clear, we are talking about this button:

Those affected, are you not seeing it at all on any device? If not, how did you know it was missing? If you are seeing it on some devices and not others, I need to know which are which.

Sorry, but I have no idea with this one at all.

[Tegis]

Still gone on all devices and networks with cache cleared and incognito tested

 

Just to be clear, we are talking about this button:

Yep, thats tha one.

Those affected, are you not seeing it at all on any device? If not, how did you know it was missing? If you are seeing it on some devices and not others, I need to know which are which.

Sorry, but I have no idea with this one at all.

I was looking for the old sites "switch" for plain text and bb-code and couldn't find anything similar. Then I saw BOF posting a screenshot of the Source-button when he asked about formatting issues. I've never seen it on this login.

[snowychap]

Yep, it is that button.

I only access via PC. I was made aware of the button by BOF's post in one of the other threads in this subforum (formatting issues, I think).

 

Apologies for being difficult!

[Tegis]

I created a new account (source-button) just to check if my old account is iffy. The problem is there 

in the new account as well when I try to post in the welcome forum.

So not a account-specific problem

Edited September 10, 2015 by Tegis

[limpid]

Can you try incognito mode (or private browsing or whatever) in one of your browsers please?

[limpid]

Ah. I think I realise what the problem is. Only admins/mods can post HTML. You only get access to that button if you can post HTML.

Sorry.

[Tegis]

Mystery solved  

[limpid]

Mystery solved  

Hopefully you can work around this.

[snowychap]

Sorry to have led you on a bit of a wild goose chase then.

[Stevo985]

The only time I can see this being an issue personally is quotes.

I'm finding it extremely difficult to edit quotes with the new site. On the old one I'd use the source button to do it "manually" (for want of a better word)

Without that option now it seems very hard, although I fully admit I may just be doing something wrong!

[limpid]

The editor is ckeditor.com - they may have more information.

[snowychap]

The editor is ckeditor.com - they may have more information.

Cheers.

 

Just had a look and this page would appear to be the user guide for CKEditor 3.

Not sure how much help that user guide is but redo and undo can be accessed by shortcuts (i.e. ctrl+y/ctrl+z), for example.

Edited September 11, 2015 by snowychap

[leviramsey]

A little experimentation shows that if Javascript is disabled, any user can post at least some restricted subset of HTML (tested to work: bold, italic, link, image; tested not to work: tables, blockquotes), so it's not the editor which is enforcing HTML restrictions (which is good news in about eleventy-billion ways).