topic Re: problems with my posts in myFICO® Forums Technical Help

problems with my posts

laz98 — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:47:07 GMT

ok, i have been having a lot of problems with posting lately, in terms of formatting. i can't change the font, center text, change font size, or anything because then it will say that i have invalid html, & undo all of my changes, & not let me post. is this a firefox problem? i'm using firefox 3.6 because i hate IE

PLEASE tell me how to fix this! it's driving me nuts!

Re: problems with my posts

MarineVietVet — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:51:55 GMT

@laz98 wrote:
ok, i have been having a lot of problems with posting lately, in terms of formatting. i can't change the font, center text, change font size, or anything because then it will say that i have invalid html, & undo all of my changes, & not let me post. is this a firefox problem? i'm using firefox 3.6 because i hate IE

PLEASE tell me how to fix this! it's driving me nuts!

Hi laz. It's been awhile but I have had that happen to me with FF and IE. When that happens what works for me it to hit the "Preview" button one or more times and it will usually clear itself up.

But your problem might be completely different than mine. In any case mod moose (admin) is very good about monitoring this board and she can help you much more than I can.

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Re: problems with my posts

laz98 — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:08:13 GMT

hmmm...i never tried toggling back & forth between the two....sometimes i hit it once to see how it looks but that's about it. i'll try it next time!

Re: problems with my posts

MarineVietVet — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:13:01 GMT

@laz98 wrote:
hmmm...i never tried toggling back & forth between the two....sometimes i hit it once to see how it looks but that's about it. i'll try it next time!

Now I didn't mean going from FF to IE and back trying to fix this problem. (If that's what you mean) I meant at separate times (I no longer have FF) I have experienced this and hitting "Preview" seemed to work with either system.

Re: problems with my posts

haulingthescoreup — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:26:46 GMT

@laz98 wrote:
ok, i have been having a lot of problems with posting lately, in terms of formatting. i can't change the font, center text, change font size, or anything because then it will say that i have invalid html, & undo all of my changes, & not let me post. is this a firefox problem? i'm using firefox 3.6 because i hate IE

PLEASE tell me how to fix this! it's driving me nuts!

Ooo, are you getting the pink screen of death, too? It's making me nuts. Whenever I try to copy/ paste something, all heck breaks loose, even though the source is a forums post. It keeps telling me to fix the invalid html, but it won't tell me what it is or how to post it.

I just keep hitting enter enter enter, and usually it finally goes, but something doesn't work right on the final product: indents, or a link, or whatever.

I'm also on FF 3.6.16, on a Mac.

--and I'll send posts via carrier pigeons before I'll use IE.

Re: problems with my posts

laz98 — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:05:11 GMT

@MarineVietVet wrote:
@laz98 wrote:
hmmm...i never tried toggling back & forth between the two....sometimes i hit it once to see how it looks but that's about it. i'll try it next time!
Now I didn't mean going from FF to IE and back trying to fix this problem. (If that's what you mean) I meant at separate times (I no longer have FF) I have experienced this and hitting "Preview" seemed to work with either system.

no no, i didn't mean that either....i meant between the post & preview, if that makes sense

Re: problems with my posts

laz98 — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:06:06 GMT

@haulingthescoreup wrote:
@laz98 wrote:
ok, i have been having a lot of problems with posting lately, in terms of formatting. i can't change the font, center text, change font size, or anything because then it will say that i have invalid html, & undo all of my changes, & not let me post. is this a firefox problem? i'm using firefox 3.6 because i hate IE

PLEASE tell me how to fix this! it's driving me nuts!
Ooo, are you getting the pink screen of death, too? It's making me nuts. Whenever I try to copy/ paste something, all heck breaks loose, even though the source is a forums post. It keeps telling me to fix the invalid html, but it won't tell me what it is or how to post it.

I just keep hitting enter enter enter, and usually it finally goes, but something doesn't work right on the final product: indents, or a link, or whatever.

I'm also on FF 3.6.16, on a Mac.

--and I'll send posts via carrier pigeons before I'll use IE.

yes! i hate that #$%$%& screen! i tried just hitting enter repeatedly today, but then it blocked me from posting because it said i was spamming the board

Re: problems with my posts

haulingthescoreup — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:52:00 GMT

@laz98 wrote:
@haulingthescoreup wrote:
@laz98 wrote:
ok, i have been having a lot of problems with posting lately, in terms of formatting. i can't change the font, center text, change font size, or anything because then it will say that i have invalid html, & undo all of my changes, & not let me post. is this a firefox problem? i'm using firefox 3.6 because i hate IE

PLEASE tell me how to fix this! it's driving me nuts!
Ooo, are you getting the pink screen of death, too? It's making me nuts. Whenever I try to copy/ paste something, all heck breaks loose, even though the source is a forums post. It keeps telling me to fix the invalid html, but it won't tell me what it is or how to post it.

I just keep hitting enter enter enter, and usually it finally goes, but something doesn't work right on the final product: indents, or a link, or whatever.

I'm also on FF 3.6.16, on a Mac.

--and I'll send posts via carrier pigeons before I'll use IE.

yes! i hate that #$%$%& screen! i tried just hitting enter repeatedly today, but then it blocked me from posting because it said i was spamming the board

lol --yeah, been there, done that, got the t-shirt

Re: problems with my posts

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 06:51:50 GMT

@laz98 wrote:

ok, i have been having a lot of problems with posting lately, in terms of formatting. i can't change the font, center text, change font size, or anything because then it will say that i have invalid html, & undo all of my changes, & not let me post. is this a firefox problem? i'm using firefox 3.6 because i hate IE

PLEASE tell me how to fix this! it's driving me nuts!

Hi laz98,

Sorry to hear you are having these problems. Let me look into this and see what I can find. I've upgraded to FF 5 so I can't test FF 3.6 any longer but I'll check the FF5 here.

Test Center

Bold

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copy/ paste

ETA: I had no issues

Re: problems with my posts

laz98 — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:12:52 GMT

booooooo......that means something is wrong with 3.6, huh? that sucks. i don't like the new firefox. i actually went back & downgraded because i hated it so much.

Re: problems with my posts

MarineVietVet — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:19:36 GMT

@laz98 wrote:
booooooo......that means something is wrong with 3.6, huh? that sucks. i don't like the new firefox. i actually went back & downgraded because i hated it so much.

I used and liked FF for a long time but made the mistake a few months ago of upgrading to a "Beta" version and it was a disaster. I couldn't even get the computer to boot up. It took a long time to repair (still don't know what I did right to finally fix it ) but that sort of soured me on FF and I went back to IE.

IE 8 and IE 9 seem very stable compared to older versions. I haven't decided if I'll ever try FF again.

Re: problems with my posts

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:23:30 GMT

@laz98 wrote:

booooooo......that means something is wrong with 3.6, huh? that sucks. i don't like the new firefox. i actually went back & downgraded because i hated it so much.

I only mentioned FF 5 because that's what I was using. At this point we can't say if it's FF 3.6 or something else. What I need from those of you that are having issues, is what the HTML is. If you can take a screen shot of the HTML that is causing the problem and post it here or send me a PM that would help the techies figure out what is causing the problem.

Re: problems with my posts

laz98 — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:43:27 GMT

i don't know how to take a screenshot. i can tell you what i was trying to do in my post.

in my post above, the bwahahaha one, this is what i was trying to do:

1) center the bwahahaha, bold it, change the font size to 5, & changed the font to trebuchet ms.

2) type the rest of my message normally in the default font (arial?)

Re: problems with my posts

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:54:11 GMT

@laz98 wrote:

i don't know how to take a screenshot. i can tell you what i was trying to do in my post.

in my post above, the bwahahaha one, this is what i was trying to do:

1) center the bwahahaha, bold it, change the font size to 5, & changed the font to trebuchet ms.

2) type the rest of my message normally in the default font (arial?)

Hi laz98,

I sent you a PM. I have a couple questions. Did you try to do this more than once? Did you try the Preview tab first before getting the invalid html message?

Can you try it again in this thread and before hitting Post, click on the HTML tab and copy and send me the HTML code. (See PM)

Thanks,

Re: problems with my posts

laz98 — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:19:12 GMT

ok, sent you a pm with the html.

Re: problems with my posts

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:03:30 GMT

@laz98 wrote:
ok, sent you a pm with the html.

Thank you, that was very helpful. I did get the error message when using your HTML, but if I just hit the Preview tab and hit post it posted. You shouldn't have to do that, but that might be a work around until we figure out what the problem is.

ETA: OK, just realized it didn't have the color and center...back to square one!

Re: problems with my posts

haulingthescoreup — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:47:00 GMT

@MarineVietVet wrote:
@laz98 wrote:
booooooo......that means something is wrong with 3.6, huh? that sucks. i don't like the new firefox. i actually went back & downgraded because i hated it so much.

I used and liked FF for a long time but made the mistake a few months ago of upgrading to a "Beta" version and it was a disaster. I couldn't even get the computer to boot up. It took a long time to repair (still don't know what I did right to finally fix it ) but that sort of soured me on FF and I went back to IE.

IE 8 and IE 9 seem very stable compared to older versions. I haven't decided if I'll ever try FF again.

Well, if you had a lick of sense, I'm sure that you just hit enter-enter-enter until it starting behaving itself.

That's one of my two techie computer fixes. The other is to turn it off and turn it on.

Re: problems with my posts

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:18:33 GMT

UPDATE:

The issue with centering is a known issue but I don't have an estimated time for it getting fixed. Best thing is not to use it because it won't work. The reason I was able to center was I have Admin and our permissions allow it.

If there are other issues you find, please let me know.