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Posted 02 February 2014 - 02:14 AM
I edited my
topic in APIs and Utilities, and it reverted to raw HTML when I saved the edit.
Is there any way to clean that up without re-writing it??
Edited on 02 February 2014 - 01:14 AM
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Posted 02 February 2014 - 03:06 AM
I don't see a problem with it
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Posted 02 February 2014 - 03:35 AM
Sorry – I just completely re-editied it and stripped out all of the html.
It was a weird error, all I did was save a routine edit and BAM – all sorts of <div>s and <li>s, <spans>, etc.
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Posted 02 February 2014 - 05:10 AM
It may be you triggered it by clicking the "toggle editing mode" button at the wrong moment - switching out of the rich text editor shows your post in HTML for a moment, before converting it to BBCode. Sometimes it only gets half way through this process, leaving you with the unwanted tags (you should be able to trigger this on demand by spam-clicking the button).
If the board had use of HTML enabled for forum posts it'd be able to fix it automatically for you, but it doesn't (and given the shenanigans that'd allow, nor should it - though odds are admins/moderators have it as a post option).
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Posted 02 February 2014 - 11:00 AM
I know admins have HTML posts, as Lochie made one for CCDesk. Not sure about mods, though. Also, they may have changed the permissions, so don't quote me.
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Posted 03 February 2014 - 05:59 PM
Mods do have HTML access, and if your post suddenly becomes stupidly broken due to poor editor conversion, and filled with HTML formatting, one of the moderators could fix it for you, if need be. Obviously, we won't fix the tiny ones, but if you wrote a huge essay on whatever, we might be more inclined to do so.
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Posted 03 February 2014 - 10:41 PM
I wish HTML wasn't so dangerous that we can't have access to it here, but I see the issue with someone using HTML to create chaos in a forum post.