Anyone else struggle with forum text formatting?

Evan_Reese

I find that I'll draft a post, and the formatting looks right in the preview (code blocks look right etc), but then I post it and it gets all silly looking and some of the HTML code shows up and it looks like a mess. Am I missing something or is it kinda buggy?

MichaelPascoe

I haven't. There is an issue I noticed, when trying to embed a video. Also, I'm not sure how to get the aspect ratio updated, even when I change it in the iframe code.

steve_shubin

@Evan_Reese

Being as I’m often using my iPhone, when I have to enter text into small online text input fields or boxes, well when doing so, these boxes can be a bit small to work with, specially if you’re going to have a number of paragraphs. As a result, you will end up having to scroll a lot and that can be kind of a pain

So often I use my Notes app on my iPhone to lay down my text, as it gives me the maximum amount of screen real estate for text input, and then I copy and paste that into the forum field where you make your post

And when I do that, it often leaves extra spacing between paragraphs. So I have to go and correct all of that

The other problem I have when making posts using my iPhone in this forum, is when I quote somebody (i.e. when I press the little quote button at the bottom of someone’s message), well of course it’s gonna put the entire quote into my post.

Now a lot of times I just want to show one or two sentences of someone’s quote, so I go ahead and remove text within their quote 

But when I do that, I get trapped within their quote at times, in fact more often than not, when using my iPhone. That is to say, if I want to enter some text as a response to the quote. It’s going to appear within that quote box, within my post.

So to remedy the situation, I have to pull out my MacBook Pro

S1mon

Something has changed recently. I’ve had issues with at mentioning people and it puts a line break after the name. I go into the html code view and there’s nothing wrong. 

I’ve also literally had issues with command-c and command-v not working for copy and paste. The menu items work, but the keyboard shortcuts are broken.

Evan_Reese

steve_shubin said:

@Evan_Reese

The other problem I have when making posts using my iPhone in this forum, is when I quote somebody (i.e. when I press the little quote button at the bottom of someone’s message), well of course it’s gonna put the entire quote into my post.

Yeah I deal with the quote trap too! I usually type my answer first, then go remove extra parts of the quote, but it feels like something that could be better.

Evan_Reese

S1mon said:

Something has changed recently. I’ve had issues with at mentioning people and it puts a line break after the name. I go into the html code view and there’s nothing wrong. 

I’ve also literally had issues with command-c and command-v not working for copy and paste. The menu items work, but the keyboard shortcuts are broken.

Yes! I've had similar issues mentioning people.

Evan_Reese

Here's an example of me trying to have: text, then code, then more text, then more code:

Test code block;

more text

And even more code;

Edit: of course it worked this time

MichaelPascoe

   

Phillip_B

Do you also see no screenshots/pictures in the forum?
First i thought it is because it was an old thread but also in new ones i can't see any pictures. 

Phillip_B

Found the answer by myself. The pictures URL (copied from the html view) is blocked by our companys firewall. That sucks. 
Does Onshape forum use such a special hoster? I usually never have a problem with blocked URLs.