No formatting here - please help

Happy_saver_4

When I make a post I cannot create a line break. I type it in and it looks ok but when I review and post it goes continuous. When I go to reply and quote somebody elses posting the line breaks are shown as < br / > . I also cannot add a smiley to my post? :-(( It's been alright for years but something has changed.What am I doing wrong or which setting do I need to change? Please keep it simple.

espresso

User CP, Edit Options, what it it set to?

Happy_saver_4

espresso wrote: »

User CP, Edit Options, what it it set to?

Thanks for your reply It's set to :- Enhanced Interface - WYSIWYG Editing.

espresso

OK try clicking on the Switch Editor Mode button:

Happy_saver_4

espresso wrote: »

User CP, Edit Options, what it it set to?

I've now reset it to Standard Editor and it seems I can get line breaks,

test

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but still no smilies. I'm totally confused

Happy_saver_4

espresso wrote: »

OK try clicking on the Switch Editor Mode button:

I've switched back in the edit options to WYSIWYG and tried clicking the Switch editor mode. Nothing seems to happen ie. the arrow never changes to the egg timer indicating changes are being made. Perhaps I need to log out and re log in, if I can remember the password and email I used as it was ages ago; lols. Or do you think doing a system restore would be better. Thanks for your advice.

espresso

It's nothing to do with system restore, it is a forum setting. Leave it set to enhanced interface WYSIWYG and try composing a reply and then clicking on the Switch Edit Mode button to toggle it. (No egg timers but you should get smilies etc!)

:cool:

Happy_saver_4

espresso wrote: »

It's nothing to do with system restore, it is a forum setting. Leave it set to enhanced interface WYSIWYG and try composing a reply and then clicking on the Switch Edit Mode button to toggle it. (No egg timers but you should get smilies etc!)

:cool:

This is my attempt at composing a reply. I'll do a line break here and a smiley here . Nothing happens when I click switch editor mode On the review it shows as one line with no break and no smiley. The switch editor mode doesn't seem to work?

Two9A

Which browser are you using, by the way? I use Firefox 2, and it seems to work fine. Apart from the text cursor not blinking when I'm typing here

If you use something like Safari, it'll probably have trouble.

espresso

Happy_saver wrote: »

This is my attempt at composing a reply. I'll do a line break here and a smiley here . Nothing happens when I click switch editor mode On the review it shows as one line with no break and no smiley. The switch editor mode doesn't seem to work?

Just as a matter of interest, can you Thank other users?

Have you cleared your browsers temp files?

Happy_saver_4

Two9A wrote: »

Which browser are you using, by the way? I use Firefox 2, and it seems to work fine. Apart from the text cursor not blinking when I'm typing here

If you use something like Safari, it'll probably have trouble.

I'm using Firefox original. I haven't upgraded to 2 as some folks said they were getting probs. That was a few months ago. All was working ok with the Forum on Firefox1 till yesterday.