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Community => Coffee Lounge => Forum tips => Topic started by: Womble on November 06, 2015, 10:31:51 am

Title: Text sizes all over the place
Post by: Womble on November 06, 2015, 10:31:51 am

Can't figure out what's going on here. I find if I'm typing a message, then put in a smiley :) [size=78%], it turns the text after the smiley really small sometimes.[/size]

[size=78%]I didn't do anything else to ask that to happen, honestly![/size]

Then, when I preview or post, there are lots of 'size' HTML tags all over the post.  I can usually go in and modify post to get rid of these, but then it looks as though I've changed all my posts?

Any ideas Dan?

Title: Re: Text sizes all over the place
Post by: Dan on November 06, 2015, 11:47:46 am

Yes, use the plain text option - click the last icon on the second row and it''ll turn off the WYSIWYG editor which is old and a bit flaky (you know the feeling ;) ).

We're on the latest version of SMF but I'll have a trawl of the documentation and forums to see if there's a fix.

PS: Are you using Chrome?

Title: Re: Text sizes all over the place
Post by: Womble on November 06, 2015, 12:25:54 pm

Ah, so I had the WYSINQWYG editor enabled then?  ;D

Yes, I'm on Chrome. That might be significant, since I don't recall having this problem until I got a new computer and switched from Firefox.

Title: Re: Text sizes all over the place
Post by: Dan on November 06, 2015, 12:40:23 pm

It's a particular problem on Chrome, yes. You'll also get double line spacing from carriage returns.

But be comforted by the fact that I'm also a Chrome user, it annoys me too, and I'd like to fix it.  :)

Title: Re: Text sizes all over the place
Post by: Foobar on November 06, 2015, 12:42:09 pm

I have a similar problem, on chrome.  When I type something multi-line and the go back and delete a carriage return it screws up the text size from that point onwards.  I think this is only on a followup, although I can't seem to re-produce it today so maybe you've already fixed it?

Title: Re: Text sizes all over the place
Post by: doganjo on November 06, 2015, 01:12:59 pm

Chrome has it's issues but it's so much faster and safer than anything else

Title: Re: Text sizes all over the place
Post by: mab on November 06, 2015, 02:41:56 pm

pretty sure I have had the same trouble using safari (although it may be quite an old version)  :) but it seems to be behaving at the moment.  ::)

Title: Re: Text sizes all over the place
Post by: Lesley Silvester on November 06, 2015, 08:35:03 pm

I haven't a clue what the technical stuff is about but it happens to me as well on this site only. I just highlight and use the font size thingy (technical term) to make it all the same size. Simples.

Title: Re: Text sizes all over the place
Post by: Womble on November 23, 2015, 07:08:50 am

Hmmm, Still on Chrome, and still getting the occasional size wobble. However, the toggle view button seems to have ceased toggling now.  I think it must have permanently toggled to 'on', as I can't insert smileys any more.

Please help Dan - without emoticons, people will start thinking I'm being serious, and that can only end badly! (grin, winkyface, pinkrabbit, knittingsanta, duncehat).