Why all th garbage in my posts?

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Topic: Why all th garbage in my posts?

Posted By: rlsmith
Subject: Why all th garbage in my posts?
Date Posted: February 09, 2004 at 1:38 PM

Can anyone tell me why I get all the special characters, tabs, etc.. in my posts?

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Posted By: beyondamfm
Date Posted: February 09, 2004 at 1:44 PM

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Posted By: xetmes
Date Posted: February 09, 2004 at 2:02 PM

because you are pasting text from a text editor.... forum rules say not to just for that reason...

Posted By: the12volt
Date Posted: February 09, 2004 at 2:02 PM

https://www.the12volt.com/installbay/forum_posts.asp?tid=1725...

... Use Plain Text Editors If you edit or format your posts in another editor before pasting them into the message form, please use Notepad® or some other plain text editor. Do not use Word®! Word® and several other rich text editors include code that will cause your posts to be displayed incorrectly. These posts may be deleted without notice.

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Posted By: rlsmith
Date Posted: February 10, 2004 at 8:03 AM

I am typing directly into the Post/Reply box. I have also tried notepad. Niether works.

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Ron

Posted By: MAXST
Date Posted: February 10, 2004 at 10:34 AM

you have enable forum codes to format post checked?

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Posted By: markcars
Date Posted: February 24, 2004 at 9:17 PM

it could also be your browser. What browser are you using? Try using Internet Explorer or Netscape (the most common browsers). If you are reading/writing from a UNIX shell account, you will also have such problems. If you tell me what OS and browser you are running and what hardware, I can tell you for sure.

Posted By: rlsmith
Date Posted: February 25, 2004 at 8:05 AM

I am using internet explorer V6. I am not pasting anything. I am typing into the reply box. I have tried Enable Forum Codes and I have tried without Enable Forum Codes.

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Posted By: markcars
Date Posted: February 25, 2004 at 9:05 AM

Looks like you are using the right stuff. I see that it is working well now, whatever you did to fix it. I can't really tell too much because I don't have access to what the moderators have,as they can actually see more details on your "session" details, much more than your IP, which can narrow down the possibilities.

If you used explorer V6 and typed directly in the reply box, you shold not have had the "garbage" you see before. That was raw HTML code. If you enable "Forum codes", it only allows you to see bold, italics, underline etc but won't show raw html.

However I am glad to see that you have it working now.

Posted By: the12volt
Date Posted: February 25, 2004 at 9:50 AM

It has nothing to do with enabling "forum codes" or the browser you are using. If you use a rich text editor such as Microsoft Word®, then copy from Word® into your post, regardless of wether or not you have forum codes enabled, it will show fubar as it did above. If you must use a text editor instead of typing directly into the form, use Notepad® or any other plain text editor. You can however copy from Word®, then paste into Notepad®, then copy from Notepad® and paste into the form.

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Posted By: markcars
Date Posted: February 25, 2004 at 10:26 AM

That's really strange. He says he typed directly into the reply box and not copy/paste from a rich text editor such as Word®.

Also, even if you copied from a rich text editor such as Word® and then paste that into this textarea form- field, it will only paste the text part filtering out the rich tags just as you would paste into Notepad®.

It would be interesting to know the real cause.

Posted By: the12volt
Date Posted: February 25, 2004 at 10:41 AM

markcars, no, it does not filter out the rich text tags or HTML tags. I should know since I wrote the application to do just what it is doing.... replacing HTML brackets < > with { }. When he replied stating he typed directly into the reply box, he did so for that particular message, not his original message.

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Posted By: markcars
Date Posted: February 25, 2004 at 10:42 AM

In addition to what I mentionned, if you select "Enable the Windows IE 5 + WYSIWYG post editor" in your profile, you will be able to paste exactly what you see in your rich text editor but still, the codes won't be displayed. So it is still strange why the raw html tags were displayed, and that too the < and> were replaced by { and }.

This is a test of	Table with 2 rows and 2 columns.
copy/paste from Word® to form multiline textarea	blank cell

Still a mystery to me.

Posted By: markcars
Date Posted: February 25, 2004 at 10:46 AM

Ok here's the solution. Do not check on "Enable the Windows IE 5 + WYSIWYG post editor" in your profile. It shows up nicely, just like what you see while typing before posting, however after posting, it saves in the above raw format or "garbage" that you call it.

Posted By: markcars
Date Posted: February 25, 2004 at 10:53 AM

Thanks for correcting my error the12volt, I did not realise that his final message was typed directly into the box and there werent codes anymore.

Also can you check the profile settings? When you select to "Enable the Windows IE 5 + WYSIWYG post editor", you will see the problem surfaces. Since you wrote the application/script, I am sure you can fix that. Thanks.

Posted By: the12volt
Date Posted: February 25, 2004 at 11:02 AM

markcars, true, if the WYSIWYG editor is disabled or if you are using Netscape Navigator, it doesn't matter what you copy and paste from, however, if it is enabled, which by default it is for IE users, it will do what I described previously as it did when you copied and pasted from a rich text editor in your previous post. If you do disable the WYSIWYG editor and you are using IE, you will not be able to paste tables into your post as shown below.

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Posted By: rlsmith
Date Posted: February 25, 2004 at 11:05 AM

I unchecked the WYSIWYG editor. Let's see if that works.

Thanks for the help!

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Posted By: the12volt
Date Posted: February 25, 2004 at 11:05 AM

You're welcome, however there is nothing to fix. It was done intentionally to prevent wacky code produced by Word® from making some forum pages display incorrectly.

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