Formatting questions

[KKSlider]

Hey all.

Hoping you're able to shed some light on a frustrating issue I'm encountering with E's site.

Whenever I try to put some kind of formatting on a thread, it always messes up. I've put up countless threads on other forum websites, and have never had issues like this before. I've tried 2 different browsers, Chrome and Edge, both mess up the formatting.

Examples can be found here and here. I just tried to preview a third thread I'm trying to make right now, and that completely was messed up to the point where text was turned into size 1 or something, and completely unreadable, with html tags visible in various places. I've tried this both coding the html myself, and using the [Toggle View] button, but neither method works out for some reason.

It seems like the tags for the formatting are getting messed up somehow, and I'm not sure why or how, but it's making the forums almost unusable.

If anyone has any thoughts or ideas, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks.

~KK

[Lilias]

BBcode is a bit different from HTML. You may find this thread useful. (There are more in the same section, as well.) I can certainly commiserate - nesting tags in the right order can be a pain.

[Chasing Dreams]

You have an extra [/size] in the code you are using. The first [/size] in each code needs to be deleted.

Also, for font size the code will look like the following:

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[size=11pt]Insert text here[/size]

For font size, you have to indicate a number size instead of small, medium,  or larger.

[Amaris]

So just looking at the beginning of the first post you linked



You have too many closing tags.

When you open a size tag. (Where you have size=xx-large) you close it after the text you want that size. Which you did, but then you have an extra line of code that only has the opening of a font tag... and the closing of a size tag.



These two closing size tags do not have the opener to go with them so will appear as plain code. You have that various places throughout your post. Are you trying to add extra lines? If you are that extra code really isn't necessary.

If that is what is necessary your code could easily look like this and have the same result



I hope this is helpful and you'll be able to see from then on where to remove coding you don't need.

[KKSlider]

Okay, I did some experimentation, and came up with a test that shows exactly what my problem is. Below, I have 2 lines of code, the only difference is the center tag. Look at what happens in the formatting:

{font=arial black]{size=xx-large]{center]KK Slider's O/o Thread{/center]{/size]{/font]

{font=arial black]{size=xx-large]KK Slider's O/o Thread{/size]{/font]

Formats it as:

KK Slider's O/o Thread

[/size][/font]

KK Slider's O/o Thread



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The [Center} tag seems to be messing with the formatting somehow

[Chasing Dreams]

The issue I see is that you are using {] when the code here on E requires [ ] that brackets be used.

[Oniya]

I don't know if this might help matters, but the coding that I've used has always been in point-size.  That is to say, rather than {size=xx-large], I use {size=20pt} or some appropriate number.  The drop-down menu for font size above the post window also has some pre-sets. 

So, for example, 

KK Slider's O/o Thread

would be coded as

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[center][font=arial black][size=24pt]KK Slider's O/o Thread[/size][/font][/center]

(I have always found that the justification code works best as the outside tag.)

[KKSlider]

The issue I see is that you are using {] when the code here on E requires [ ] that brackets be used.

I wish it was that simple. This isn't the problem - I used the { on purpose so that I could post the code without the site auto-formatting it. I know it's supposed to be [. I'm trying to show you what code I have, and what I expect it to do, versus what actually happens.

[Chasing Dreams]

I wish it was that simple. This isn't the problem - I used the { on purpose so that I could post the code without the site auto-formatting it. I know it's supposed to be [. I'm trying to show you what code I have, and what I expect it to do, versus what actually happens.

Sorry about that.  What Oniya suggested with putting the justification code on the outside is what I do as well and haven't had issues with it.

[KKSlider]

Sorry about that.  What Oniya suggested with putting the justification code on the outside is what I do as well and haven't had issues with it.

That's okay! Please see the next bit for my reply on this!

I don't know if this might help matters, but the coding that I've used has always been in point-size.  That is to say, rather than {size=xx-large], I use {size=20pt} or some appropriate number.  The drop-down menu for font size above the post window also has some pre-sets. 

So, for example, 

KK Slider's O/o Thread

would be coded as

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[center][font=arial black][size=24pt]KK Slider's O/o Thread[/size][/font][/center]

(I have always found that the justification code works best as the outside tag.)

Apparently if I put the center tag on the outside of the font and size tabs, that works, but if it's on the inside it doesn't. Here's what the difference is:

CENTER ON THE INSIDE:

KK Slider's O/o Thread

[/size][/font]

CENTER ON THE OUTSIDE:

KK Slider's O/o Thread

SO LESSON IS: Order apparently matters when dealing with tags. I guess I figured it out now haha. Thanks for the input all.