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Since a couple of days all my postings are getting formatted weiredly ..

 

 

If I separate two paragraphs by an empty line, the forum doubles that, resulting in two empty lines. For long...ish postings this is really annoying.

 

 

For example, this is now the third paragraph. The screen shot shows what I actually typed in. Disclaimer: no editing, just posting this as I typed it.

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Weird, never had this happen and it doesn't seem to be happening now, either.

 

Browser issue? I'm using Vivaldi (based on Chromium) on Win7.

 

Or maybe the preview negates the issue? Except for one liners (and even then, in most cases) I always use the preview.

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Weird, never had this happen and it doesn't seem to be happening now, either.

 

Browser issue? I'm using Vivaldi (based on Chromium) on Win7.

 

Or maybe the preview negates the issue? Except for one liners (and even then, in most cases) I always use the preview.

No idea what the cause might be - all I know is that it changed not too long ago. Before, I too, never had this issue.

 

 

Maybe the browser ... could be. When was the last update of Firefox?

 

 

Anyway, I'll try the preview here now.

 

 

edit after preview: Ok, preview already shows the doubled line feeds. Also the edit field now contains them as well. I could edit them out now ... but ... nah ...

 

 

edit after posting: funny thing: although I had now doubled line feeds in the edit window, THOSE where NOT doubled (again). Once the forum made two empty lines out of one, it stays that way ... only manually typed line feeds seem to be affected. In fact, in the edit window, I entered only one blank line between the original text and my "edit after preview" line - and THAT was doubled again. Weired.


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Hrm. In the user profile settings, there is an option "Message Editor Interface" where you can select

  • Basic Editor / Simple Text Box
  • Standard Editor / Extra Formatting Controls
  • Enhanced Interface / Full WYSIWYG Editor

 

After switching from "Enhanced" to "Standard", it seems to work now again ...?

 

I never deliberately selected "Enhanced" - or if I did, it was years ago ... but as I can see any diference in functionality between the two variants, I guess, I am fine with this now. :D

 

edit: ok, the difference is, that "Standard" shows all formatting with those [xxx]...[/xxx] formatting codes instead of actually doing the formatting- Hrmph.


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I know this is a vey old thread, but did anyone find out why this happens. I get the double spacing, which is less of a problem, but I also get a huge blank space at the end of each post - even a single ime:- witness....

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Joined 2018. Always been this (annoying) way.

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Also getting this. Have to go back and edit every single post I make to remove the extra spacing, and occasionally double spacing still gets left over

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I had this issue and fixed it. Firefox does extra formatting and it's not compatible with this forum software. The fix is to change an option in Firefox config.

 

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3040337&sid=561a6372bd8703958d06fe6385365c28&start=15

That is very interesting.

(I hope, nobody minds if

I test it here right away?

 

There should be one empty line above this one, right?

And no blank line above this.)

 

edit: Thanks Frederf:worthy: Consider yourself +REPed! :thumbsup:


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I had this issue and fixed it. Firefox does extra formatting and it's not compatible with this forum software. The fix is to change an option in Firefox config.

 

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewto...65c28&start=15

 

Interesting. Unfortunately, I am not using Firefox, and the issue sometimes remains, even with the new forum. Last post it made the extra spaces. This one it did not. Odd.

 

EDIT: So I made a new reply on a different thread and the problem returns. Ironically, this post is formatted correctly.


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