AnswerBank Bug Reporting

[AB Editor]

Morning All.

Thanks to everyone who posted bug reports on this page:
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/AB-Editors-Blog/Question1194930.html

Problems we're going to fix today:

1. Linebreak/New lines/Returns not carrying from text entry field to printed Question/Answer
2. Arbitrary line breaks in answers
Both of these issues can be seen here: www.theanswerbank.co.uk/AB-Editors-Blog/Question1195097.html
3. Badges seem to be missing in action. This is likely to be a case of the badges existing in code, but not in the front end.
Thanks for your patience - please me know if you spot any other issue below by:
1. Describing your issue 2. Let us know what browser you're using 3. give us a link to where you've spotted the issue.

All the best,
Ed

[vivandorron]

Chuck...If you are unable to offer a positive explanation for the present problems within AB, I doubt that the Ed's engaged Geeks will have a clue.:-)

Ron.

[shoota]

Just spotted my best answer list has not updated since October, the number has, but not the list of answers.
Can I have a badge?

[Mamyalynne]

You have 5.

[ChuckFickens]

Ron,

I'd guess that anything inside > and < (the other way round) is being removed as they are the symbol used to denote a HTML tag so they are being stripped out because the site doesn't allow HTML.

[vivandorron]

And there was I thinking that HTML was abbreviated Internet Slang for 'Hi There My Lovely' and was permissible to put into columns of AB. :-)

I can know see that I now need to watch my p>s & q

[vivandorron]

^^ Something strange has now happened.

I am positive that, prior to my hitting the Submit button, I had typed a further sentence which has not been printed in my response. It read "Thanks Chuck for pointing me in the right direction."

Ron

[jno]

italics still aren't working. 09:58 here:

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Phrases-and-Sayings/Question1196453.html#answer-7539559

[vivandorron]

Now that is strange

Ron.

[jno]

how did you do that, Ron? I can't see anything wrong with the way I did it. Perhaps the colon or the single quote marks made it go wrong?

[vivandorron]

Hi jno.....One of the failings with italics is that punctuation marks can throw the whole thing out. Also it is important Not to have any space between the and the start and finishing of a sentence. [i This is wrong [i] but if I close the gaps, [i]This should be right]

Ron.

[vivandorron]

^^ What a mess italics are. I never intended the italicised words to be where they have appeared. You are right jno...Italics aren't working as the should be. (If indeed they ever have.!! )

Ron.

[jno]

you might well bne right that the space at the start and the end of the sentence caused the problem, Ron (if that's what you were trying to break through the garbles to say), as I have just succeeded with another italic sentence with no such gaps.

[vivandorron]

Exactly what I was trying to say. However, I think it still is the case that only one sentence is allowed in italics otherwise everything becomes a real mess.

Ron.