MetaTalk posts tagged with html

HTML Error with small tag?

battlebison — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:31:07 -0800

HTML error? Using a "<" sign inside small tags seems to have done it. Over here, in the preview area, my comment worked fine, but did not do so well once posted. I wanted to make a <><> (without the dots of course.)

Rss Issues

blue_beetle — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:41:51 -0800

Flag Suggestion: HTML Error in RSS Example: This post has an issue with the umlat in RSS, but works fine on the web page.

Induced, simulated, or acquired dichromacy?

dylanjames — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:07:33 -0800

Am I crazy...or is MeFi messing with background colors? While reading, I'm seeing the blue turning purple, ask's green turn brownish then gray. "is it just me?" or is Safari 4.01 going nuts, or is someone playing a practical joke?

super mefize me

Night_owl — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:21:08 -0800

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?

/i

Sys Rq — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:50:05 -0800

This post seems to be italicizing my entire Recent Activity page.

pre tag display issues

Chuckles — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:28:47 -0800

Thank you for making <pre> tags work predictably and consistently between live preview, full preview, and posting. However.. Looks like all old uses of pre are now messed up.. Well, not all, which is a little confusing. What was I trying to draw here?!?!? Do we need a back<pre>tagging project? It would be a lot harder to implement, obviously.. Any ideas?

onload="javascript:this.style.width=50;this.style.height= 50

signal — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:54:05 -0800

MeFiHTML: Is there a reason to first set profile images to width & height = 0, then set the actual size via javascript? The final effect is that the page loads, then all of a sudden shifts 50px to the right as the images widths are set. Is this by design? Wouldn't it make more sense to just set the real size in the first place? The code under consideration:


[img style="border: 1px solid gray; padding: 1px; float: left; clear: left; position: relative; bottom: 55px; margin-right: 5px; width: 50px; height: 50px;" onload="javascript:this.style.width=50;this.style.height= 50;" onerror='this.src="http://images.metafilter.com/mefi/userphoto.png";' src="http://images.metafilter.com/mefi/userphoto.png" width="0" height="0"]

Line Break Issues in "Preview"

jimmyjimjim — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:47:56 -0800

Suggestion: In AskMeFi (and perhaps elsewhere, Idunno), line breaks in preview ought to look/work the same as when published. It sounded, at the time, like my suggestion here might be implemented, but the issue remains. So I'm just reminding....

Pony Request: Fix Live Preview Bugs

five fresh fish — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:03:22 -0800

WYSINWYG: Live Preview ≠ Actual Post. ¹ renders as a superscript 1 in Live Preview, but displays as ¹ in real life. Are there any other such bugs that should be reported? Please report Live Preview bugs in the hopes that a pony be birthed.

HTML Special Characters

fogster — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:46:02 -0800

Super-trivial bug with HTML special characters. I attempted to post an infinity symbol (∞) into this discussion. It looked correct in the Live Preview section, so I posted it. But the ampersand-hash-8734-semicolon was stripped to just say "8734." Meanwhile, the "approximately equal to" (ampersand-asymp-semicolon) worked. My problem isn't so much that it didn't work (allowing HTML special characters is just asking for ASCII art and other junk), but that it did work in the Live Preview but not for real, resulting in my post in which I posited the the size of the universe was "approximately 8734." I suspect this is something that only comes up once in a while, but that's a pain every time it does. It's definitely low-priority, but can the Live Preview be made to handle these things the same way that the actual system does? It could even give a warning, "HTML special characters are not allowed" or something. It'd just help if it was consistent in its behavior. Also: previewing the post here shows the infinity symbol, but previewing a comment (who does that?) shows "8734."

AskMe Broke as a joke

pedmands — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:03:24 -0800

Is anyone else's AskMe page broken? After: Please explain to me step by step how exactly to hang art using picture rails. [more inside] posted by Violet Hour to home & garden at 2:39 AM - 3 answers (3 new) + Hey Guys, last week i posted this askMe: There is absolutely nothing.

Don't Fix Me, Bro

AmbroseChapel — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:58:01 -0800

Has code been added to "fix" "invalid" HTML? I just previewed a post which had a few unclosed <li> tags (perfectly legal under the HTML 4.0 Transitional Doctype) and when I previewed, it "fixed" my HTML by stacking a bunch of closing tags at the end. That is, it found

<ul>
  <li>foo
  <li>bar
  <li>baz
  </ul>

and "corrected" it to

<ul>
  <li>foo
  <li>bar
  <li>baz
  </li></li></li>
</ul>

Which, I'm going to go with, bad idea.

Screwing up the "less than" symbol

hexatron — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:37:48 -0800

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 <

Blue meta make head spin

disclaimer — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:47:45 -0800

screenshot So, this page is a little odd... Not that I mind a blue MetaTalk with a tag party going on, but maybe the URL could use a little work. It's kinda cool in a strange way. Here's a screenshot for posterity.

One hack Two hack Red hack Blue hack

flapjax at midnite — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:57:28 -0800

I guess I missed the memo: when did Matt start handing out red usernames? And are other colors available? I'd like electric lime green, please!

Flogging a dead horse

Thorzdad — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:26:38 -0800

Safari and the html widgets...A silly technical question re:User Agents So, if by simply changing my Safari User Agent setting to identify as Windows IE 6, I can actually see and use the html widgets in the edit post field...What's keeping the widgets from appearing and working in Safari proper? Obviously, they work just fine in Safari...even my old-as-the-hills version. Not that I would ever use the widgets myself, of course...I roll my own, thankyouverymuch *harrumph, harrumph*

On preview, zipperhead.

dirtdirt — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:31:45 -0800

Previewed HTML works fine, posted HTML less so... This is on Ask, and is visible in my recent question. I previewed extensively and paid close attention to the "if there is HTML makes sure it looks ok", and it DID look ok. But I posted it, and it sure doesn't look ok anymore, and now I look like a zipperhead, and everyone who reads my post thinks "That zipperhead didn't preview" but I did. Oh, lord, I really did. If it's too much or too tricky to make the preview match the post, can we at least put up a warning sign for zipperheads like me, saying that the two don't necessarily match?

Line Break Issues in "Preview"

jimmyjimjim — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:03:11 -0800

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?

If you believe Sarcasm= Irony, Maybe You're Not Smart Enough to Post Here

wendell — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:22:06 -0800

How many times do I have to remind you people: THERE IS NO SARCASM TAG IN HTML. Not to single out ericb, but almost every day there seems to be at least one example of a thread derail caused by an unmarked sarcastic comment and its inevitable misinterprtation. DON'T DO IT, PEOPLE. Have we learned nothing from this guy? Sarcasm is a very dangerous comic device, one that can backfire even in the hands of professional funnypeople, and one that almost NEVER works in pure text form. If you MUST make a sarcastic comment, PLEASE add the manual tag "/sarcasm" or other obvious marker. "Yeah, sure." is usually NOT enough. *The More You Know* /lame TV reference, but not sarcasm

I can haz Markdown?

evariste — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:11:23 -0800

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.

Rendering issues

PuGZ — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:09:02 -0800

I've come across a few issues in my latest AskMefi post related to rendering. When I previewed, the unadorned <> symbols appeared, despite not being HTML entities. When I posted, they got gobbled up as tags. Then I tried re-posting my question as a comment and the extended characters (≤, ≥ and π) didn't display. I am running Camino on OS X 10.4.10.

It's annoying.

Afroblanco — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:18:52 -0800

Is there a reason that we're allowing the blink tag?

Strange posting results with no code errors.

Meagan — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:38:40 -0800

AskMe posting bug - forced lowercase and paragraph splicing

nobody noticed

carsonb — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:52:40 -0800

Follow nobody.

how to link url

Rain Man — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:45:50 -0800

could someone please direct me to an explanation about how to enter links or urls so they are highlighted? thanks