Holy Block of Text Batman!

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#1

kilpatds

Apr 28, 2010 21:51:58
What broke in the parcing?


So it used to be that someone would type a paragraph, hit return twice and type another paragraph.  In the rendered post, that double-spacing would still exist to separate paragraphs.


Sometime today, that stopped working.  And people who usually post long posts broken up in many small paragraphs are suddently posting big walls of text.

Like here.  I hit return twice between "text." and "Like here."  But there's no paragraph.  The paragraphs above were formed by hand adding a paragraph tag at the end of the paragraphs.  And while that works, it seems bad form.


Is anyone else seeing this?

#2

Neutronium_Dragon

Apr 29, 2010 2:37:11
Now that I think about it - weren't there issues with double-spacing before that were being worked on? I wonder if there was an attempted fix that worked a little too well.
#3

zombie_babies

Apr 29, 2010 9:10:16
Yeah, what's up with this?  In one post, it all worked fine.  In another, it was all run together.  This is ... irritating.
#4

kilpatds

Apr 29, 2010 9:25:32
Viewing the page source, the br tags are there, they just are not being rendered for some reason.  CSS?
#5

borg285

Apr 29, 2010 9:36:21
I'm simply copying what I found.  Perhaps it will help debug.  the br tags within a < p > ... < /p > work when you edit a post but not when you view it.
#6

Duskweaver

Apr 29, 2010 10:50:44
The sad thing is that I long ago stopped thinking of these sorts of annoying formatting/parsing glitches as noteworthy. Nearly every time I'm here, there seems to be something not working quite right.
#7

Awesomologist

Apr 29, 2010 11:36:53
The sad thing is that I long ago stopped thinking of these sorts of annoying formatting/parsing glitches as noteworthy. Nearly every time I'm here, there seems to be something not working quite right.


QFT.
Hence why the community will perpetually be in "Beta" 
#8

kilpatds

Apr 29, 2010 13:19:45
I'm simply copying what I found.  Perhaps it will help debug.  the br tags within a < p > ... < /p > work when you edit a post but not when you view it.


To provide a clear demo of this, I hit enter in the middle of both arrows below.

Not in a P tag: -->
<--

In a P tag: -->
<--



#9

erleni

Apr 29, 2010 13:25:11
Hello,

I have a post without any

but still
doesnt't work and I get a wall of text.

#10

kilpatds

Apr 29, 2010 16:11:51
If you quote someone ([ quote ] tags), I think your whole post is enclosed in a <p> tag.  (fwiw, to create the <p>, it's &lt;p&gt;, and then don't ever edit your post because the editor will un-escape it).

What I've done to quote people is <blockquote><i>Put there Cut and Pasted text here</i></blockquote>

Like this:
Hello,

I have a post without any


but still doesnt't work and I get a wall of text.


#11

kilpatds

Apr 29, 2010 16:33:41
community.wizards.com/communityhq/go/thr...

Firebug found it.
toolbar.css:42:@import "http://community.wizards.com/newforum.css";
newforum.css:308:.mb_t_p_t_post_div p br {...;}

#12

tsukinousagi

Apr 30, 2010 7:19:30
Hm so it wasn't just my imagination.

I'm still experiencing some wall of text posts.

This is just a test to see if it happens again.

I should have four separated sentences when I submit this.
#13

tsukinousagi

Apr 30, 2010 7:20:10
Ok I have no idea why my post that preceeded this threads comments was walled.
#14

TelinArtho

Apr 30, 2010 9:38:43
Hey everyone!

Line breaks are displaying properly again.  It was indeed a simple styling issue.

Special kudos to those of you who pointed that out and helped us track it down and resolve it more quickly.  



Okay - but I wasn't having the problem before and now I am.

In addition - the Wizards Community group no longer allows me to post there - not sure what's going on over there.