Formatting problems when posting..

[lazybloke]

The vanishing carriage returns (eg backspace to remove a typo in a subsequent line) sounds trivial, but drives me insane

 

[wafter]

The vanishing carriage returns (eg backspace to remove a typo in a subsequent line) sounds trivial, but drives me insane

Yes, I'm really struggling to deal with this currently - especially since I'm not know for my brevity when posting...

Lots of little flashes of rage when I make a typing error, backspace to correct and yet again the whole bloody body of text starts migrating up the page making what should have been a two-second correction into a needlessly protracted re-formatting exercise involving the mouse and often repeated attempts to get the sodding paragraph to stay where it's supposed to..

This problem's been about since this software was launched and while we don't pay to use the forum, the software isn't free and being one of the most popular forum formats surely it's not too much to expect this to have been sorted out by Xenforo...?

 

[wafter]

Another tortured scream into the void in abject desperation to get this fixed... it remains utterly infuriating and tbh I'm increasingly just binning half-written posts after getting sick of having to repeatedly re-create multiple disappearing page breaks.

Surely it's not that difficult to sort out - I'm on a number of other forums running Xenforo and none suffer this issue any longer..

 

[Pat "5mph"]

@wafter I never had the issue you're having, must be frustrating
Maybe you could open note pad or similar, write your post, edit it then copy and paste to CC.
Really sorry you're still having to deal with this!

 

[wafter]

@wafter I never had the issue you're having, must be frustrating
Maybe you could open note pad or similar, write your post, edit it then copy and paste to CC.
Really sorry you're still having to deal with this!

Thanks; that's really bizarre. What device and browser are you using to view / contribute to the forum?

Thanks for the thought; I already do that when writing large posts and the frustration becomes unbearable; it's too much faff for small posts though.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

What device and browser are you using to view / contribute to the forum?

Hi @wafter, I'm mostly using Edge on a windows 11 laptop.
Sometime I use Chrome on the same device.
But even using the Samsung browser on my Samsung tablet for CC works fine for me.

 

[wafter]

Hi @wafter, I'm mostly using Edge on a windows 11 laptop.
Sometime I use Chrome on the same device.
But even using the Samsung browser on my Samsung tablet for CC works fine for me.

Thanks Pat - in that case perhaps it's a browser issue... happens on my machine at work too (W11/Firefox).

When I'm back at work perhaps I'll give it a go in Edge; not that this is a browser I'm falling over myself to use..

 

[wafter]

Right; test post using Edge and W11 at work. As I march towards the first page break the anticipation is palpable; will the forum software screw me on Edge as well?

Right, first page break with the need to delete the necessary typing errors and I'm both enthused and disappointed to say that apparently there is no issue.
On to the next to try again and it's behaving as it always was - page break gone. Not sure what's different to the last sentence which was fine.
Seems that this problem also exists when using Edge then, and appears inextricably linked to Xenforo rather than being anything to do with the OS. Again this doesn't seem to affect other Xenforo forums I use - maybe the forum software needs updating?