Where did the Toggle HTML View </> button go?

Eco_Miser

I've just written a block of spreadsheet code which the editor messed up by by putting visible <BR/>s at the beginning of each line in the codeblock and not in the underlying HTML to give a new line.

I went to edit the HTML but could not find the button [</>] that used to be on the format toolbar (and is there on this post! Along with several other buttons (strike through, lists and alignments) not present when I was writing my post, which was a reply if that makes any difference)

ETA I went back to that post, edited it and all the buttons were back. They definitely were missing when I originally tried, several times, to edit the post.

MSE_Stephen

Hi @Eco_Miser

If you shrink your browser window, the editor seems to remove many buttons without seemingly any way to select them. Could this have been the issue?

It's very unlikely that there will be any improvements to the editor as there is a new version we hope to switch to soon.

Eco_Miser

That could be it. Something to remember if it happens again. 

Thanks

Ildhund

I went to edit the HTML but could not find the button [</>] that used to be on the format toolbar

I see the icon on the 'Special Formats Menu' - click on the pilcrow (¶) at the edge of the editor box, then on the quotation mark (❝) - but it's changed function. I can't (yet) see any way to edit the HTML

I used this function often just to insert a horizontal rule (<hr>) to 'change tack' within a post. The Markdown command (e.g. —- ) doesn't do anything in the editor, but I'll shortly find out whether it actually works:

[EDIT a moment later] No, it doesn't do anything.

Eco_Miser

I see the icon on the 'Special Formats Menu' - click on the pilcrow (¶) at the edge of the editor box, then on the quotation mark (❝) - but it's changed function. I can't (yet) see any way to edit the HTML

My problem was with the old editor, some of the icons disappeared with narrow windows, or large text, but now editing the HTML of the post is impossible, the so called Code Block just lets you write sample code in various languages and prettyprints it.