Mods: The web page is not displaying my thread correctly.

[HorologyBuff]

I have a good idea for an automatic-setting home clock.

How about a chiming clock that's charming like this Bulova that could always keep itself at the correct time via a Bluetooth connection and your home PC with an Internet connection? The clock in theory could keep in sync with your Windows clock. Yes, it's true they have these atomic clocks on...

mb.nawcc.org

The posted text is not showing on the computer screen.

 

[Steven Thornberry]

I have moved this to the Forums Help & Notices forum. Perhaps someone who knows what the specific issue is will reply.

 

[Bill Stuntz]

Just for the halibut, I copied& pasted his title into a reply in that odd narrow edit window. Actually I fiddled around and did it again, and then actually typed another reply. My posts show up in the thread. But somehow the page formatting is all messed up, with odd frame widths, etc. I don't see how/why it's happening, but it obviously is. And I don't see any actual "body text" in post#1, just a more-or-less empty, long post under the header. I'll keep looking, but I don't have much hope. The screwed up layout makes it very difficult to figure out exactly what I'm seeing.

HorologyBuff Have you tried to recreate your thread from scratch? Maybe without trying to fine-tune it - no fancy formatting. Just the text you want and any illustrations. Or maybe just the text in post#1 with any illustrations in a 2nd post in the thread.

 

[Bill Stuntz]

I just looked at HB's user info by clicking on his name. Under his postings, I see this:
It looks like there's a "style" command in (or preceding) the quote from Bulova that's being interpreted as a command to XF's display routine, not as text that he's trying to quote. Note that there is visible text in the post in the preview on his profile page that isn't visible in his thread. Since I'm not an admin anymore, I can't edit those style commands out of his post. Maybe one of the admins/mods can do so. But I'm not SURE that they'll be able to do it, since it's being executed, not displayed.

 

[gmorse]

Hi Bill,

And I don't see any actual "body text" in post#1, just a more-or-less empty, long post under the header.

The first 170 or so lines of posts in all threads are empty, but I'm no HTML programmer . . .

Regards,

Graham

 

[Bill Stuntz]

I'm no HTML programmer . . .

Me neither. I know just about enough to be dangerous. But I think I've identified the source of the problem - see post#5.

 

[John Matthews]

Bill - neither am I but you are correct .. This is the code in the quote pasted as an image

John

 

[Steven Thornberry]

I have cleaned up the thread by deleting HB's post and the extraneous posts by Bill Stuntz. I reposted the text of HB's post.

 

[Bill Stuntz]

Thanks Steven. I'm glad you were able to fix it. I found it interesting that those style commands were visible in the preview on the user's profile page, but totally screwed up the view of the thread.

 

[Tom McIntyre]

I am surprised that the code that parses a message let that get through.

If the original was just copied and pasted into the editor and the codes from the source were close enough to the codes for the forum I can imagine how that might of happened, but it is still surprising.

I wonder if just enclosing the quoted reference with [quote][/quote] would have worked?

 

[Bill Stuntz]

If the original was just copied and pasted into the editor and the codes from the source were close enough to the codes for the forum I can imagine how that might of happened, but it is still surprising.

I'm assuming it was a copy/paste problem. But the other surprise is that the commands were visible in the preview in his profile but not in the "live" post. Why didn't it screw up the preview? Tom, I don't really expect an answer... it's just food for thought. I didn't actually expect looking at his profile to reveal an answer. It was more-or-less luck that I found it. I'm glad Steven was able to fix it, but I was expecting that the display in the editor would be screwed up, too - which could/would have prevented the fix. It was an interesting puzzle.

 

[Tom McIntyre]

The little cog wheel icon to the right of the tools in the editor will turn off interpretation of the codes.

That tool is a little misleading since if is a user preference rather than a current activity switch. i.e. if you are using it and go edit another post, it is still active.

The problem I had was seeing anything with the blown formatting. I could edit the post, but everything was scrambled off somewhere else.

 

[Bill Stuntz]

The problem I had was seeing anything with the blown formatting. I could edit the post, but everything was scrambled off somewhere else.

Yeah. And I couldn't do that because I'm not an admin anymore. And I was afraid that the blown formatting would prevent editing.
But I tried to help as much as I could.