Why do I sometimes see all the <> formatting commands when I quote or edit?

cheesehead · 2013-04-04, 17:46

Occasionally when I want to edit one of my posts, or respond to a quoted post from someone else, the editing box explicitly displays the angle-bracketed formatting commands (e.g, " " or "" and "") instead of simply applying them to the text. If I don't do the same in everything I add to that post, the displayed result is messed-up. So far, I haven't noticed enough of a pattern to characterize the once-in-a-while circumstances in which this happens (but it's happening to me right now). What might cause this?
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Example: I didn't write the "&amp" or ";quot" or ";lt" stuff shown in the paragraph above -- those replaced the simple quotation marks I actually wrote.
(When I first edited this post to add the paragraph immediately preceding this one, it had quotation marks explicitly shown when I posted the revised text -- but now that I've edited the post yet another time to add this third paragraph, those marks are replaced by the amp, quot, and lt stuff)

Xyzzy · 2013-04-04, 20:44

Fish1: Va Puebzr jr nyjnlf frr gur sbeznggvat pbzznaqf. Jr qb abg xabj jul.

cheesehead · 2013-04-04, 22:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

Fish1: Va Puebzr jr nyjnlf frr gur sbeznggvat pbzznaqf. Jr qb abg xabj jul.

Angle brackets show in the edit box, but not in the displayed result now.

cheesehead · 2013-05-25, 12:56

Further observations:

Earlier this morning when I tried to browse mersenneforum.org, I got an error message about database-something-or-other. A few minutes later, when I retried, I was able to log in.

When I tried to post a response on a thread, I got the same strange editing behavior as I reported above. (Explicitly displays the angle-bracketed formatting commands and the " quot " substitutions for quote marks (e.g, "" " or "" and "") instead of simply applying them to the text.)

When I replaced all the "& quot ;" with just quote marks ("), the " marks stayed there and were posted. But when I edited the post to add something, all the " marks were converted to "& quot ;". I spent, maybe, a half-hour laboriously fighting the formatting in order to get a decent-looking post.

Then, when I went to another thread, all the post-editing was back to normal (as in was in the first thread, also) and was still normal as I composed this post. But when I clicked on "Submit Reply", the quote-substitution was back again, as you can see.

2013-04-04, 17:46	#1
cheesehead "Richard B. Woods" Aug 2002 Wisconsin USA 1E0C₁₆ Posts	Why do I sometimes see all the <> formatting commands when I quote or edit? Occasionally when I want to edit one of my posts, or respond to a quoted post from someone else, the editing box explicitly displays the angle-bracketed formatting commands (e.g, "< br / >" or "< u >" and "< /u >") instead of simply applying them to the text. If I don't do the same in everything I add to that post, the displayed result is messed-up. So far, I haven't noticed enough of a pattern to characterize the once-in-a-while circumstances in which this happens (but it's happening to me right now). What might cause this? - - - Example: I didn't write the "&amp" or ";quot" or ";lt" stuff shown in the paragraph above -- those replaced the simple quotation marks I actually wrote. (When I first edited this post to add the paragraph immediately preceding this one, it had quotation marks explicitly shown when I posted the revised text -- but now that I've edited the post yet another time to add this third paragraph, those marks are replaced by the amp, quot, and lt stuff) Last fiddled with by cheesehead on 2013-04-04 at 17:55

2013-05-25, 12:56	#4
cheesehead "Richard B. Woods" Aug 2002 Wisconsin USA 1E0C₁₆ Posts	Further observations: Earlier this morning when I tried to browse mersenneforum.org, I got an error message about database-something-or-other. A few minutes later, when I retried, I was able to log in. When I tried to post a response on a thread, I got the same strange editing behavior as I reported above. (Explicitly displays the angle-bracketed formatting commands and the " quot " substitutions for quote marks (e.g, ""< br / >" or "< u >" and "< /u >") instead of simply applying them to the text.) When I replaced all the "& quot ;" with just quote marks ("), the " marks stayed there and were posted. But when I edited the post to add something, all the " marks were converted to "& quot ;". I spent, maybe, a half-hour laboriously fighting the formatting in order to get a decent-looking post. Then, when I went to another thread, all the post-editing was back to normal (as in was in the first thread, also) and was still normal as I composed this post. But when I clicked on "Submit Reply", the quote-substitution was back again, as you can see. Last fiddled with by cheesehead on 2013-05-25 at 13:05

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2013-04-04, 20:44	#2
Xyzzy "Mike" Aug 2002 8224₁₀ Posts	Fish1: Va Puebzr jr nyjnlf frr gur sbeznggvat pbzznaqf. Jr qb abg xabj jul.