Forum Issue: Quoted posts have no white space outside of quote

evanh

When quoting someone, the rich text editor, by default, does not have ability to add a new line before nor after the quoted text.  It can only edit what's inside the quote box.

One has to revert to source code editing to add a line break instruction to the source code outside of the quote box.  After which the rich text editor can then be used to add further new lines outside of the quote box.

potatohead

Just now, when quoting you, I dropped a couple carriage returns into the comment box before hitting quote.  Doing that works. 

When quoting someone, the rich text editor, by default, does not have ability to add a new line before nor after the quoted text.  It can only edit what's inside the quote box.

One has to revert to source code editing to add a line break instruction to the source code outside of the quote box.  After which the rich text editor can then be used to add further new lines outside of the quote box.

potatohead

When quoting someone, the rich text editor, by default, does not have ability to add a new line before nor after the quoted text.  It can only edit what's inside the quote box.

One has to revert to source code editing to add a line break instruction to the source code outside of the quote box.  After which the rich text editor can then be used to add further new lines outside of the quote box.



On this one, I just hit the quote button, arrowed down and got a blank line.

potatohead

When quoting someone, the rich text editor, by default, does not have ability to add a new line before nor after the quoted text.  It can only edit what's inside the quote box.

One has to revert to source code editing to add a line break instruction to the source code outside of the quote box.  After which the rich text editor can then be used to add further new lines outside of the quote box.



I was not able to arrow up to get the same.  That line needs to be there in advance.

Firefox / Mac OS

evanh

When quoting someone, the rich text editor, by default, does not have ability to add a new line before nor after the quoted text.  It can only edit what's inside the quote box.

One has to revert to source code editing to add a line break instruction to the source code outside of the quote box.  After which the rich text editor can then be used to add further new lines outside of the quote box.



On this one, I just hit the quote button, arrowed down and got a blank line.


Ah, I've worked it out.  I've been using middle mouse button to make the action open in a new browser tab.  This means the quoted post and editor are not at the bottom of the topic page.  For some reason this also seem to change the behavior of the editor.

I can see Chip has been having a similar issue with his posts.

potatohead

This editor is funky.  On Android, I can make it work with the show source option, but not normal.  And if I've done that, the forum will not always give me the mobile editor again. 

evanh

The reason why it works in "Show Source" mode is because that one doesn't use scripting.  It'll just be a basic HTML edit box.  I can do almost everything on this forum with scripting disabled.

potatohead

That's actually a feature. 

And it makes perfect sense.  Something in the script is taking focus away from the box on Android.  Well, Chrome on Android.  I suppose I could try other browsers, and the broken "Internet" one.

Then again, it works.  I can type stuff, people can see it.  More is good, but that's enough.

Courtney Jacobs

Bump suggested that he could look into adding a line of whitespace under a quote. Thus, this has been added to the list of Forum Issues.

This thread will now be sunk.