Flag Suggestion: HTML Error in RSS [more inside]
posted by blue_beetle on Oct 8, 2009 - 8 comments

Am I crazy...or is MeFi messing with background colors? [more inside]
posted by dylanjames on Jun 18, 2009 - 41 comments

I'm trying to MeFize my life, but I need some help. I've found color codes for the backgrounds of each subsite, but I cannot find the color code for the lovely gold-esque color that denotes a link. Help?
posted by Night_owl on Jun 3, 2009 - 56 comments

This post seems to be italicizing my entire Recent Activity page.
posted by Sys Rq on Apr 30, 2009 - 4 comments

Thank you for making <pre> tags work predictably and consistently between live preview, full preview, and posting. However.. [more inside]
posted by Chuckles on Feb 22, 2009 - 74 comments

MeFiHTML: Is there a reason to first set profile images to width & height = 0, then set the actual size via javascript? [more inside]
posted by signal on Nov 25, 2008 - 6 comments

Suggestion: In AskMeFi (and perhaps elsewhere, Idunno), line breaks in preview ought to look/work the same as when published. [more inside]
posted by jimmyjimjim on Oct 6, 2008 - 25 comments

WYSINWYG: Live Preview ≠ Actual Post. [more inside]
posted by five fresh fish on Aug 28, 2008 - 25 comments

Super-trivial bug with HTML special characters. [more inside]
posted by fogster on Jul 11, 2008 - 31 comments

Is anyone else's AskMe page broken? [more inside]
posted by pedmands on May 10, 2008 - 42 comments

Has code been added to "fix" "invalid" HTML? [more inside]
posted by AmbroseChapel on May 8, 2008 - 49 comments

or the nth time just now, I used the 'less than' symbol to mean 'less than', not as the start of some HTML. The preview shows < as < but in the posted comment, it is treated as HTML and just screws up the post. Preview here also shows < as < The < in this post so far have been entered as & l t ; but here is a sample: 15 days <18 days and using the dread symbol itself 15 days <18 days Let's see what we get. I just noticed that on the preview page here, all the & l t ; in the Description: box were changed to <
posted by hexatron on Apr 19, 2008 - 48 comments

screenshot So, this page is a little odd... [more inside]
posted by disclaimer on Mar 5, 2008 - 38 comments

I guess I missed the memo: when did Matt start handing out red usernames? And are other colors available? [more inside]
posted by flapjax at midnite on Jan 27, 2008 - 54 comments

Safari and the html widgets...A silly technical question re:User Agents [more inside]
posted by Thorzdad on Jan 22, 2008 - 8 comments

Previewed HTML works fine, posted HTML less so... [more inside]
posted by dirtdirt on Jan 11, 2008 - 36 comments

It's pretty annoying that inserting carriage returns shows line breaks as typed in the "preview" window, but the final result is breakless (after all, what's the point of the preview?). I've had unpredictable results manually adding "BR" tags and "P" tags...they seem to sporadically interact with the typed carriage returns and yield vast white space. If anyone can point me to a workaround, I'd be appreciative. But, really, it'd be fitting if postings posted per the preview, no?
posted by jimmyjimjim on Dec 10, 2007 - 29 comments

How many times do I have to remind you people: THERE IS NO SARCASM TAG IN HTML. [more inside]
posted by wendell on Dec 9, 2007 - 124 comments

Can we have Markdown? It's so neat. I subconsciously compose everything in it and it's now a slight pain writing actual HTML tags. For instance, you can do a quote by starting the first line of a paragraph "> " instead of having to wrap it in blockquote/close blockquote tags. It's way easier to do useful things.
posted by evariste on Nov 17, 2007 - 67 comments

I've come across a few issues in my latest AskMefi post related to rendering. [more inside]
posted by PuGZ on Oct 19, 2007 - 12 comments

Is there a reason that we're allowing the blink tag?
posted by Afroblanco on Sep 13, 2007 - 290 comments

AskMe posting bug - forced lowercase and paragraph splicing
posted by Meagan on Aug 16, 2007 - 14 comments

Follow nobody.
posted by carsonb on Aug 8, 2007 - 94 comments

could someone please direct me to an explanation about how to enter links or urls so they are highlighted? thanks
posted by Rain Man on Aug 3, 2007 - 1 comment

Anyone else see a weird display bug with this comment? In both IE and Firefox, the "posted by" line (and only the posted by line) for that comment (and only that comment) is not indented at all. I'm not familiar with the Metafilter code, but when I view source it looks like all the rest of the comments.
posted by Kwine on Jul 12, 2007 - 3 comments

I found this previous MeTa post, which states why numeric html entities are not allowed. However, there seem to be no named entities for the musical notes. How did this happen then?
posted by Caviar on May 25, 2007 - 34 comments

The Metafiltr project page has HTML in the title.
posted by blue_beetle on May 21, 2007 - 3 comments

Feel free to put me in my place if this is way too trivial an issue, but I've been posting more recently and can't help but notice the little tip below the posting box, and—I know this is trivial, sorry—can we replace the two hyphens with a dash? kthx.
posted by Firas on Apr 13, 2007 - 67 comments

Keeping in mind that the restriction on using html to make the words "posted by" small in comments may not be obvious to all site users, could the error message returned by the post comment action be more informative? The current error message reads "Your comment appears to be blank, go back and try again." Also, could relevant text be added to the How do I use HTML in my posts? FAQ if you please?
posted by carsonb on Mar 22, 2007 - 20 comments

It's pretty minor, but an & in the post title turns into 'amp' in the url. example.
posted by twine42 on Mar 6, 2007 - 18 comments

Why is all of MetaFilter in italics all of a sudden? The first two posts on the page are fine, but then everything afterwards is in italics for me, even the posts from yesterday that weren't in italics earlier this morning... I've had a few drinks tonight, but not that many drinks...
posted by jrb223 on Mar 1, 2007 - 4 comments

Is it just me, or did arse_hat's failure to close the [em] tag break the front page? I like italics as much as the next guy, but this....
posted by cosmicbandito on Mar 1, 2007 - 5 comments

Is it just me, or did my autoformatting buttons vanish with my last Firefox update (I assume this is the cause, as the two coincided)? If I have to start hand-coding hyperlinks again I will probably just go into an unresponsive fugue state instead.
posted by nanojath on Feb 24, 2007 - 17 comments

Weird number translation issues? Maybe? I don't know, but when I posted to the "Crazy Congressmen" thread I know that the second time I used this link: http://www.metafilter.com/58687/FlatEarthers-No-FixedEarthers because I pasted it IN the comment box and then did the HTML around it. But it BECAME a link to the thread that I was commenting in. What? Or maybe I am totally and completely insane.
posted by Medieval Maven on Feb 20, 2007 - 22 comments

In trying to flag this post, http://ask.metafilter.com/57197/Dont-Worry-Be-Happy as the worst sort of existential Chatfilter/guideline buster, I realized there isn't a 'link' feature in MetaTalk. And I am an HTML cretin. I expect this is intentional, or I'm missing something obvious.
posted by docpops on Feb 18, 2007 - 23 comments

Is there be a better way to automate links in comments and answers?
posted by SteveInMaine on Feb 18, 2007 - 23 comments

Oh crap, I broke metafilter, again =(
posted by porpoise on Feb 2, 2007 - 52 comments

I think I broke this thread with a malformed tag. Please hope me?
posted by armage on Jan 26, 2007 - 21 comments

My "My Comments" page cut off one of my long comments that used a "small" tag, and now everything on that page is in small text. Help?
posted by divabat on Jan 21, 2007 - 8 comments

Bad HTML here needs fixing.
posted by AmbroseChapel on Nov 30, 2006 - 1 comment

Since you're already stripping out the image tag code (like on this post), why not either change it to a link or drop the whole line entirely? The code that's left is unsightly.
posted by mr_crash_davis on Nov 18, 2006 - 53 comments

Matt or Jess, could you de-linkify the word "nationwide" in this post? I moved it to be the initial link for the post, but neglected to clean up my HTML.
posted by WCityMike on Nov 5, 2006 - 1 comment

This comment looks fine in the thread but is messing up "My Comments". Everything after it is in tiny-font.
posted by GuyZero on Oct 26, 2006 - 10 comments

User specific text formating in the My Favorites Tab is borked in ask.me and metatalk and perhaps elsewhere.
posted by bigmusic on Oct 25, 2006 - 7 comments

I tried to answer this question, but I think something is not right with the first comment in this thread.
posted by FlamingBore on Oct 16, 2006 - 5 comments

I suppose this must come up from time to time, but I couldnt' find it searching... I was just viewing AskMe through Safari and when I went to add a comment, the little toolbar for bolding/italcizing/linkifying text wasn't there. I see this is the same on the other pages as well. What up with that?
posted by hwestiii on Sep 23, 2006 - 3 comments

Quick question about HTML entities: are they no longer accepted in comments? I've been trying to use em-dashes like so: [ampersand] [pound sign] 8212 [semi-colon] and this has worked fine until recently. But lately, I've left a trail of comments with ugly "8212;"s all over the place, as if the [ampersand] and [pound sign] were stripped off before post (but after the inline preview).
posted by chrominance on Sep 21, 2006 - 32 comments

The inline image debate revisited: I know this has been discussed before, and I know that images are sometimes useful in AskMe, and I know that I may have had a sense-of-humour bypass... but isn't it time we got rid of them in MeTa and MeFi? I don't think that "bloke being shagged by a robot" gif adds anything to the site at all. Or the "this is not an appropriate front page post" one. Or the "elephant poo" one. Or any of the other pictures in the thread below this one.
posted by handee on Sep 19, 2006 - 83 comments

MeFi link filter: I'm a self-proclaimed newbie and have unsuccessfully tried to answer my question by skimming the FAQs and searching the site.

How do I compose links so that a mouseover displays the title of the link and the related URL, as it does in the following posting?

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/54372
posted by NYCinephile on Aug 30, 2006 - 12 comments

I find the posting interface *completely* baffling despite trying for quite a while on a few occasions. I can only figure out how to post one link, whereas most posts are multi-link. How do I learn how to do a complete post with more than one link?
posted by ClaudiaCenter on Aug 22, 2006 - 29 comments