Problem using braces ( {{{ ) to format code.
Problem using braces ( {{{ ) to format code.
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TonyRPH

Original Poster:

13,539 posts

197 months

Sunday 11th July 2010
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I have been trying to format three lots of code within a post.

The first code segment worked fine, but the second two resulted in

this is a test


being displayed.

Test 1

[NOWIKI]

Test 2

[NOWIKI]

Test 3

[NOWIKI]

In fact, I have tried the same thing in this very post, and you can see the formatting has gone south!



ZOLLAR

19,920 posts

202 months

Sunday 11th July 2010
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Have a problem too with quoting in SPL on the "insurance question" thread, correct quote brackets etc there just arn't working when posting.
I'll try it here

pistonheads said:
Test Test 1,2 1,2,
Did it work?.

Apparently it did bks look like an idiot now hehe

Edited by ZOLLAR on Sunday 11th July 22:15

Mr Will

13,719 posts

235 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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Only one set of code brackets is possible in each post. It's on the bugs list, but we are not likely to get chance to fix it for a while yet.

TonyRPH

Original Poster:

13,539 posts

197 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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Mr Will said:
Only one set of code brackets is possible in each post. It's on the bugs list, but we are not likely to get chance to fix it for a while yet.
Ok no probs thanks.

I'll just remember to constrain the quoting of code!

Mr Will

13,719 posts

235 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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ZOLLAR said:
Have a problem too with quoting in SPL on the "insurance question" thread, correct quote brackets etc there just arn't working when posting.
I'll try it here

pistonheads said:
Test Test 1,2 1,2,
Did it work?.

Apparently it did bks look like an idiot now hehe

Edited by ZOLLAR on Sunday 11th July 22:15
This normally happens when there is either a missing or extra /quote tag in the post somewhere. It isn't related to anything behind the scenes playing up.

Pigeon

18,535 posts

275 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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Strange characters in usernames also screw up the quoting.

Some more suggestions while we're at it...

- Make it accept [code][/code] as well as curly brackets (as in BBcode)

- Make it accept URL tags in BBcode format: [url=blah-de-blah]link text[/url]. The current format is back-to-front compared to both BBcode and HTML (<a href="blah-de-blah">link text</a>) and this is confusing.

- Make the word censors ignore URLs. Currently you can't link to, for example, anything about Shorpe or other URLs that trigger the censors.

Mr Will

13,719 posts

235 months

Tuesday 13th July 2010
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Pigeon said:
Strange characters in usernames also screw up the quoting.

Some more suggestions while we're at it...

- Make it accept [code][/code] as well as curly brackets (as in BBcode)

- Make it accept URL tags in BBcode format: [url=blah-de-blah]link text[/url]. The current format is back-to-front compared to both BBcode and HTML (<a href="blah-de-blah">link text</a>) and this is confusing.

- Make the word censors ignore URLs. Currently you can't link to, for example, anything about Shorpe or other URLs that trigger the censors.
We've banned special characters from usernames a while back now, but are not forcing people who already have them to change.

Your other suggestions are all good ones though, so I've added them to the to-do list.

Pigeon

18,535 posts

275 months

Tuesday 13th July 2010
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