Bug? : Forum question "responses" PREVIEW does not seem to end up as the final result?
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I am new to the forum and the answer response form (which is heavily code orientated... fine). What I see as the suggested PREVIEW - does not seem to end up as the resulting output once submitted? Not sure of the purpose then of having a PREVIEW section, which is deceiving and a waste of time trying to format correctly before submitting? :doh:
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I am new to the forum and the answer response form (which is heavily code orientated... fine). What I see as the suggested PREVIEW - does not seem to end up as the resulting output once submitted? Not sure of the purpose then of having a PREVIEW section, which is deceiving and a waste of time trying to format correctly before submitting? :doh:
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I (like most people here) have been using these forums for just over 20 years, and the preview display generally works correctly, and shows what will be the final post. You need to provide some more actual details as to what you saw at each stage.
On multiple attempts of submitting, it seemed to alter slightly to greatly (slightly = some changes, layout different.... Greatly = where it reformatted the text into a compacted html tagged type output of a different look completely). The 2nd image showing the submitted answer (just now) is what I would suggest is a "slightly altered" view. ----------------------------------
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On multiple attempts of submitting, it seemed to alter slightly to greatly (slightly = some changes, layout different.... Greatly = where it reformatted the text into a compacted html tagged type output of a different look completely). The 2nd image showing the submitted answer (just now) is what I would suggest is a "slightly altered" view. ----------------------------------
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On multiple attempts of submitting, it seemed to alter slightly to greatly (slightly = some changes, layout different.... Greatly = where it reformatted the text into a compacted html tagged type output of a different look completely). The 2nd image showing the submitted answer (just now) is what I would suggest is a "slightly altered" view. ----------------------------------
A couple of obvious differences:
- Missing
<input>and<span>in the preview; - Your numbered list has been converted into a proper
<ol>, losing the line breaks between items; - Subtly different colouring for
<code>/`code`elements;
I suspect it's because you're using Markdown for your formatting, which has never worked brilliantly. The message preview probably doesn't support the full set of formatting applied to the final post.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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A couple of obvious differences:
- Missing
<input>and<span>in the preview; - Your numbered list has been converted into a proper
<ol>, losing the line breaks between items; - Subtly different colouring for
<code>/`code`elements;
I suspect it's because you're using Markdown for your formatting, which has never worked brilliantly. The message preview probably doesn't support the full set of formatting applied to the final post.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
Thanks for the analysis... I guess that's where I started and mentioned I thought it wasn't ending up the same as preview. Didn't know about markdown issues or how it works, just that it seemed odd when pasting in information. I will watch out for markdown codes from now on.
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No problems then. Just assumed the different layout, highlighting and font colours meant it wasn't working correctly? I will navigate through the process and learn the changes it can generate. As said, when it posted the greatly altered version with html tags and removed lines, that weren't shown in the preview, that's the main one that indicated to me it was broken. I'll work it out.
