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BinkyM:
Hi, SMF peeps:

I'm sorry if this has been discussed before; I searched and can't find "extra tags," so I'm posting to ask about it.

When either someone:

1. posts a message with a lot of formatting in it or,

2. pastes some formatted paragraphs into a post,

the resulting post ends up with a lot if extraneous closing color and size tags after the formatted text, like this:


--- Code: ---[/size][/font][/color]
[/size]
[/color]
--- End code ---

It looks just dreadful, and is an editing nightmare. And here's an example of a list I pasted in from Wikipedia yesterday:

Main card
Heavyweight Championship bout:  Junior dos Santos (c) vs.  Frank Mir[1][10]
Heavyweight bout:  Cain Velasquez vs.  Antonio Silva[1]
Heavyweight bout:  Roy Nelson vs.  Gabriel Gonzaga[1]
Heavyweight bout:  Shane del Rosario vs.  Stipe Miocic[1]
Heavyweight bout:  Mark Hunt vs.  Stefan Struve[1]

I can kinda sorta see why the second example happens (well, the list florfing part anyway), but not the rest of the mess. And the crap that comes along from the first example? That part makes no sense at all. Surely this isn't something SMF users just live with, is it? Do I have a setting somewhere that's funky? If I do, would you tell me what it is, please? I'll be so very disappointed if you tell me I just need to live with it. I'll be ashamed if I let my users in and this is what they see.

Thanks,

Binky

Edit: Oh, that's fun; the formatting doesn't show up in my table because I gather it's turned off here, but it's a bulleted list with bolded text in my forum.

BinkyM:
(bump)

I figger you need an example, so here's one for you:

http://snarkish.com/forum/index.php/topic,25.new.html

I pasted a formatted article in, and it came out a mess, with extraneous tags everywhere. I need for there not to be extraneous tags, obviously, and could use a suggestion to make the dumb things go away.

Thanks, peeps!

Binky

Arantor:
The WYSIWYG editor is very, very buggy, that's the sort of thing that happens.

Use the regular bbcode editor, it works properly.

BinkyM:
Oooh, Arantor! That sounds like a *great* idea (assuming the members can click buttons and not ype BBCode), but where the heck can I find the place to specify which editor to use? I'm going crazy looking! Thanks for the cool suggestion! Now if I can just locate the spot to shut off the WYSIWYG editor!

Binky

BinkyM:
Oh, nuts. I'll bet it's in my Features area, which I can't currently get at because of http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=476048

I'm gonna go cry like a dirty baby now.

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