Pprune posts. Lost capability to highlight
 

Without warning, my computer won't let me put a smile (from Pprune selections) where I want to place it. And I have also lost the capability of highlighting a posters post (where highlighting means enclosing in a blue frame) Also lost capability of using brackets where I wish to use italics, bold or underline, when composing a post to Pprune. Any ideas welcome and appreciated

Testing.

What browser are you using? Do you still see the options in the reply pane of the website, are they greyed out, or are they totally absent?

Highlighting seems to work. As does bold.

AOL has been giving me trouble over the past couple of weeks in posting, smilies etc. may be a change in their near future!

User CP/Edit Options/Message Editor check you don't have 'Basic' selected.

Blimey. If Loose can do it, and I can do it, it must be something in your set up.

In my initial reply, I included the source of the quote, thus and that title has now gone.

Is there a reason for that, Mods? Would you rather we didn't do it?

Certainly makes longer threads a bit easier to follow/track.

Like this?

A decision was made many moons ago, when the PPRuNe server came out of a Christmas cracker, that too many people were hitting Reply and filling threads with a huge amount of unnecessary verbiage, that setting Reply NOT to automatically include the entirety of the post being responded to would be A Good Thing.

PPRuNe seems to have coped remarkably well without the functionality, although telling people how to "quote" is a bit of a bore.

Possibly the decision could be reviewed, now that IB are running the show - and paying the 'leccy bill. Why not drop Admin a line and see if it gets included the New Year Resolutions?

SD

.... and the answer will be no.

We like it clumsy and unwieldy. It saves banning those who are besotted with quoting posts 3 centimeters above along with line by line rebuttals.

Rob

So, did you manually remove the title?[edit] just want to know for info/self sanity/memory check, and to save doing it again if it's always going to be removed.

I have the same problem, has your computer upgraded to to IE11 by any chance? Mine did and I think that is what is to blame. To overcome:


Smilies can be dragged and droppedhttp://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/sr...lies/smile.gif


To show a quote highlighted in blue: Copy and paste the relevant part:


.... and the answer will be no. then put [ quote ] at the front and [ /quote ] at the back but without any spaces and voila!!!

Tarq, your post was untouched by human hand.

Rob

Or by me.

Have you got NoScript or some such running that's blocking ibserv.net?

SD

I have NoScript, and AdblockPlus, on Firefox.
But that's not it.
Thing is, I'm pretty sure (like, around 85%) that I had included the OP's name in the quote. Since the only way I can work out how to do this, is manually, it makes the procedure slightly more memorable than just hitting "quote/reply" - or variations thereof used by other forum software.

But it could be a bit of creeping forgetfulness, I guess.

Tarq57 - to quote with name: click the reply button in the person's post. In the address bar delete the number 1 from '....&noquote=1' at the end of the address then click return. This will put the person's whole post in your 'reply to thread' box and then you can edit out the parts of the post you don't need, ending up with something similar to this when you Preview Post :

Click on the arrowhead to go back to the quoted post in the thread.

Yeah, that works too.
What's an arrowhead?

I'm sure there's a better name for it but I mean the http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/sr...s/viewpost.gif to the right of the quoted poster's name.

OK, thanks. I see that beside some quoted posts, but not all.
Never thought to click it before.

You will only see it where the URL edit has been used to 'quote', I believe. If the 'standard' icon above the editor box is used it does not appear.

http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/sr...ies/thumbs.gif

Now to see if it works for mehttp://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/sr...s/confused.gif


My first Christmas present, thank you Parabellum.

Shack - why not just use the quote icon above the editor box?

Same reason as me BOAC, it doesn't bloody work anymore! http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/sr...lies/smile.gif Smilies have to be dragged and dropped, [ quote] [ /quote ] has to be inserted manually.


Could be an IE11 problem, it snuck up on me and installed itself as I had automatic update enabled.

:):\:mad::rolleyes::cool::p;):D:O:(:bored::eek::ouch::ooh: :ok:

No, not for me

FBW

• Sorry, just trying to include as many functions / smilies as possible

Hmmm....nothing works for me here either, IE11 newly installed, no messing with add-ons and other stuff. FF is fine.

the smilies thing comes and goes for me. FbW's worked; all of them. But Para's and Shack's just didn't work.
Let's see if quoting works:
yes it does.


signed,
puzzled of Derbyshire.


Edited (second time, actually) to say that the little info line 'edited by...' didn't come up.

- aha! I must have missed that bit of info on the thread - cannot see it anywhere! I gave up with IE a few years back apart from the odd prehistoric sites that require its use.

BUT I went back to it (IE11/Win7) and lo and behold I see that too. HOWEVER if anyone from IB is reading, the quote icon function DOES work of you select the code page on the editor (a/A top right) and the quote tags do appear (as do all the smilies). If you then post the relevant text between the tags/with the smilies and then return to normal ed mode it looks ok.

I suspect a VB code error - Saab?

:eek::ouch::cool:

I'm logged in using gargle chrome to see if these functions work here.


Yes they do:ok:

Definitely a mess-up somewhere using IE 11.

Quote:

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Definitely a mess-up somewhere using IE 11.

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Agreed, I've just uninstalled IE11, back on IE10 and the problem has gone away I think. Let's see what happens when I hit submit:confused:;):ok:

Bingo

:}:):bored::ok::(:*:=:O:E:sad::D:yuk::zzz:;):oh:

Well I've just installed IE 11 to check, and I've got no problem quoting or using smilies. I'm using Win 7 Pro, btw.
Since there's at least 2 people for whom IE11 works just fine, it's probably more likely to do with add-ins or other configuration at the PC-end.

SD

My IE11 is 'raw' with no toolbars, extensions or add-ons bar Google as default search (which I do not seem able to remove!!).