Curious PPRuNe GUI glitch

[Lonewolf_50]

Using ie11.

I have run into a problem with replies for the past few days here at PPRuNe.


In the visual menu above the reply box where I type, I am able to click on and make happen:
Bold
Italic
Underline
Left justify
Center justify
right justify
number bullets
block bullets
Indent Right
Indent left.


What I am unable to do is select text and use the hyperlink tool, and oddly enough, select text and use the quote tool. (I can type in the quote /quote in boxed brackets, of course).


I also cannot select smilies. I did not check the disable smilies button.

In my choices, I selected 3 of 4.

X Automatically parse links in text
X Automatically embed media (requires automatic parsing of links in text to be on).
X Automatically retrieve titles from external links
_ Disable smilies in text

Do I have my machine set up wrong, or is the BB software getting buggy? Some of the other posters seem to be able to manage the links and quote functions.


Thanks for any help you or the tech gurus can provide.

[Saab Dastard]

Do you have any ad-blockers or any other such add-on?

What browser are you using?

Have you cleared your browser cache & cookies?

SD

[Shack37]

IE11 may be the cause of your problem. For the smilies try copy and paste. not sure about the quotes solution but remember reading of one in another thread some time ago.

[GrumpyOldFart]

When you get to the Reply window, click on the A/A box in the top right-hand corner; the background will change from pale yellow to white, and your troubles are over.

[Lonewolf_50]

Originally Posted by GrumpyOldFart

When you get to the Reply window, click on the A/A box in the top right-hand corner; the background will change from pale yellow to white, and your troubles are over.

I tried that the other day and it didn't work, but I'll try again when I'm on that machine both before and after highlighting the text. I may not have done it right.

Originally Posted by Saab Dastard

Do you have any ad-blockers or any other such add-on?

Only what's with the browser, but I do select PPRuNe no ad format and that has never been the problem before.

What browser are you using?

IE 11 aka ie11 aka Internet Explorer 11

Have you cleared your browser cache & cookies?

That was the first thing I did.

Originally Posted by Shack37

IE11 may be the cause of your problem. For the smilies try copy and paste. not sure about the quotes solution but remember reading of one in another thread some time ago.

Sadly, I tried that and it did not work.

[Saab Dastard]

You could try compatibility mode for IE11:
How to enable compatibility view in Internet Explorer 11 (IE11)

SD

[Lonewolf_50]

@Grumpyoldfart

When you get to the Reply window, click on the A/A box in the top right-hand corner; the background will change from pale yellow to white, and your troubles are over.

OK, I clicked the A's in the RHC, not the LHC (which is what I had actually tried) and IT WORKED! All I have to do now is figure out how to default to that mode.

Many thanks for that tip and thanks to all for the efforts in helping.

[Saab Dastard]

All I have to do now is figure out how to default to that mode.

It's in the User CP:

http://www.pprune.org/profile.php?do=editoptions > Miscellaneous Options >Message Editor Interface, set the default to Standard Editor

SD