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• What's with the formatting issues on the forum?

  Boomstick > July 3rd, 2017, 02:27 PM

  I've noticed for a while now that when you're writing a post, you can write indefinitely on a line in the text box. As I recall, it used to automatically jump
  down the the next line when you reached the edge of the box. The result is that the formatting for posts is often all messed up, as you can't really get an
  exactly uniform block of text when there's no "enforced" edge, so to speak.
  
  Any idea what's causing this?

• What's with the formatting issues on the forum?

  august > July 3rd, 2017, 05:34 PM

  Yep, I've been wondering that myself - and you can see all kinds of crazy line spacing in my posts in recent months. :poke:

• What's with the formatting issues on the forum?

  rkomar > July 3rd, 2017, 07:52 PM

  I've only been posting here for a few years now, but it seems to have always been that way since I started. So, if something is broken, it broke quite a while ago, at least for me.

• What's with the formatting issues on the forum?

  Boomstick > July 4th, 2017, 12:59 AM

  It's been this way for a few years now for me. I don't post much anymore, so I didn't think much of it. Oddly enough, posting here via my iPad -which I'm doing now- the text box is "locked," and the formatting is automatically taken care of. As it used to be when I posted via my PC.

• What's with the formatting issues on the forum?

  august > July 5th, 2017, 11:39 AM

  Probably has been a couple of years now....

• What's with the formatting issues on the forum?

  Boomstick > July 5th, 2017, 09:02 PM

  august Wrote:Probably has been a couple of years now....

  Years...months...close enough, right? :bg:

• What's with the formatting issues on the forum?

  Michael > July 10th, 2017, 10:33 AM

  It's a configuration issue that I have never had time to pin down. I will take another stab at it this week but I can't promise much.

• What's with the formatting issues on the forum?

  Alvin Eriol > July 10th, 2017, 04:32 PM

  I've noticed it too. For my longer posts such as fanfics, I generally compose initially in MS Word anyway.(Copy-and-paste still leaves me in awe how well it works with all sorts of disparate applications!)
  It's awkward having to scroll sideways just to see the ends of my own sentences.
  It seems to me I 1st noticed the issue after that last overhaul of the board in 2013. I looked around for some setting that might clear it up, to no avail. It's as if it was set not to "word-wrap" in the text editing controls.

• What's with the formatting issues on the forum?

  Michael > August 7th, 2017, 10:38 AM

  Sorry for the long silence. I don't preformat or prewrite my messages. I probably should but I don't. I still see the lack of wrapping sometimes. But right now I am using Microsoft Edge instead of Google Chrome and I don't have the problem. I don't know if it's browser related.
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