I'm the WTF - how to format?
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Jeez - I thought I was halfway competent at this internet thing, but I'm clearly not.
How the crap do you get basic formatting into TDWTF posts?
Even newlines? I type this with newlines and they get stripped from the final result. Is there a handy-guide-to-wtfuckery-editor-formatting-in-dailywtf?
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php tags
such as
(p) but in the ><> > triangular brackets
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@skotl said:
Even newlines
I generally use <br /> for newlines. The rich text editor (when it works) tends to use <p>/</p>
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@garrywong said:
php tags
LOLWUT? WTF are 'php tags?'
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@garrywong said:
php tags
such as
(p) but in the ><> > triangular brackets
Not sure if trolling or stupid, but if the former, 9/10.
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Bloody hell.
So it's just HTML?
How retarded is that? Can I run any script I want too?
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@skotl said:
Bloody hell.
So it's just HTML?
How retarded is that? Can I run any script I want too?
Pretty much, the mods do get a little irate if you start writing JS/CSS that breaks a thread's layout. You have the power, use it wisely.
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phew....
I just tried to add javascript and thankfully it got filtered out. So mostly-retard editor rather than full-retard
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@skotl said:
phew....
I just tried to add javascript and thankfully it got filtered out. So mostly-retard editor rather than full-retard
Your homework: write another post at the bottom of a post.
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@skotl said:
Jeez - I thought I was halfway competent at this internet thing, but I'm clearly not.
How the crap do you get basic formatting into TDWTF posts?
Even newlines? I type this with newlines and they get stripped from the final result. Is there a handy-guide-to-wtfuckery-editor-formatting-in-dailywtf?Go here. Click the Site Options tab. Change the Content Editor option to Plain Text. Click Save.
Then you can just type raw HTML into message boxes and wrap paragraphs in <p> </p> and put <br> where you want line breaks (or <br /> if you're feeling polite, since the doctype for these pages is XHTML). Be aware that BBCode formatting remains active as well, so using &91; for left square brackets as well as < for left angle brackets is usually a good idea. Use the Preview tab before clicking Post to make sure you didn't screw up your tags.
Yes this is pathetic and laughable, but it's much much less frustrating than constantly trying to second-guess Community Server's broken-ass WhatYouGetIsCompletelyFuckingRandom rich text edit control.
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@Ben L. said:
@skotl said:
phew....
I just tried to add javascript and thankfully it got filtered out. So mostly-retard editor rather than full-retard
Your homework: write another post at the bottom of a post.
Hint: Ben. L has already done that. If you look around, the work has been done for you.
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@flabdablet said:
much much less frustrating than constantly trying to second-guess Community Server's broken-ass WhatYouGetIsCompletelyFuckingRandom rich text edit control.
What are you talking about. It just works.
I mean, I just posted this, didn't I? And some italics.
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Whoo, new CS breakage thread!
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@mikeTheLiar said:
@Ben L. said:
You've managed to fuck up something in yours though Mike:@skotl said:
phew....
I just tried to add javascript and thankfully it got filtered out. So mostly-retard editor rather than full-retard
Your homework: write another post at the bottom of a post.
Hint: Ben. L has already done that. If you look around, the work has been done for you.
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@flabdablet said:
@skotl said:
I rather suspect (or get the impression that) they're using Chrome or somesuch where that option does fuck all, since all you have available is the plain text editor.Jeez - I thought I was halfway competent at this internet thing, but I'm clearly not.
How the crap do you get basic formatting into TDWTF posts?
Even newlines? I type this with newlines and they get stripped from the final result. Is there a handy-guide-to-wtfuckery-editor-formatting-in-dailywtf?Go here. Click the Site Options tab. Change the Content Editor option to Plain Text. Click Save.
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^^ this
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@PJH said:
@mikeTheLiar said:
@Ben L. said:
You've managed to fuck up something in yours though Mike:@skotl said:
phew....
I just tried to add javascript and thankfully it got filtered out. So mostly-retard editor rather than full-retard
Your homework: write another post at the bottom of a post.
Hint: Ben. L has already done that. If you look around, the work has been done for you.
No, I wasn't trying to post beneath my post, just fuck with CS.
Now can I fix it again?
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@mikeTheMoron said:
If you look around, the work has been done for you.
</td></tr></table>Really now?
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@Ben L. said:
@mikeTheLazy said:
If you look around, the work has been done for you.
</td></tr></table>Really now?
It's the quickest way I've found to break shit when I feel like being a tool, but can't be arsed to actually do something clever. Sorry.
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Also, I tried to un-fuck it in a later post, but that only appeared to up the fuckery. Now we're way over here.
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I want to see if I can fix this.
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Di... DID I JUST FIX THE FORUM?
YAY
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This is actually one of the more interesting fuckups I've seen.
It kinda feels like using frames.
EDIT: Damn it, you unbroke it!
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@Salamander said:
Damn it, you unbroke it!
It's really, really easy to do again. Also, it's not completely unbroken, there's still extra <li>'s over by these side.
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@flabdablet said:
or <br /> if you're feeling polite, since the doctype for these pages is XHTML
Yeah, but it's served as text/html, so browsers are only going to treat it like poorly-formatted HTML and not XHTML. If you tried to run this site through an actual XHTML parser it would probably blow up.
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@morbiuswilters said:
@flabdablet said:
or <br /> if you're feeling polite, since the doctype for these pages is XHTML
Yeah, but it's served as text/html, so browsers are only going to treat it like poorly-formatted HTML and not XHTML. If you tried to run this site through an actual XHTML parser it would probably blow up.
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@morbiuswilters said:
poorly-formatted HTML and not XHTML
HTML5 allows (ignores) /> (for empty elements only), mostly because the average web dev is too dumb to understand SGML shorttag syntax, but also because they wanted to allow polyglot documents.
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@joe.edwards said:
@morbiuswilters said:
poorly-formatted HTML and not XHTML
HTML5 allows (ignores) /> (for empty elements only), mostly because the average web dev is too dumb to understand SGML shorttag syntax, but also because they wanted to allow polyglot documents.But this doesn't have an HTML5 doctype (well, whatever the fuck you call the HTML5 equivalent), so the browser is just falling back to HTML4.
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@morbiuswilters said:
@joe.edwards said:
@morbiuswilters said:
poorly-formatted HTML and not XHTML
HTML5 allows (ignores) /> (for empty elements only), mostly because the average web dev is too dumb to understand SGML shorttag syntax, but also because they wanted to allow polyglot documents.But this doesn't have an HTML5 doctype (well, whatever the fuck you call the HTML5 equivalent), so the browser is just falling back to HTML4.
It's still called a doctype: <!DOCTYPE html>
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