Reply With QuoteNah it's fine for me at the moment but it's been problematic in the past
"Reply with quote" not working?
As of today cannot seem to reply with quote for some reason......anyone else had this or got an idea why?
When I tick the reply with quote it doesn't appear at all and if I then create a post reply I'm told it's too short as there is nothing typed in the relevant area?
Mystified of Surrey!
Nah it's fine for me at the moment but it's been problematic in the past
Working fine for meOriginally Posted by Gareth-W
Cheers,
Gary
Yeah, seems fine on the iPad! Odd...
Cheers Gary.
Works for me.
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
And me
It's happened to me (on my home MBP running chrome) a few times in thelast couple of days. Oddly, when using the "back page" button to take me back to the thread I was trying to quote-reply to, I then get the textbox loaded with the quote.
Which browsers are people having the problem using?
I'm getting the problem with Chrome, but I've not tried any other yet.
M.
+1 Chrome, on MBP.
Hasnt happened using my almost obsolete IE on my work PC.
It has been very intermittent for me (working normally 95% of the time).
it wasn't working yesterday on my ipad, will try in a mo.
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Working on my mac
it wasn't working yesterday on my ipad, will try in a mo.
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Working on my mac
Working today again on my PC - via Firefox.
Maybe just a moody Monday issue?!
argh.... Now its doing it to me... not unique to this pc either, as I access from different sources
Will see if it improves today
Mike
Strange.argh.... Now its doing it to me... not unique to this pc either, as I access from different sources
Will see if it improves today
Mike
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
And yet it has worked this time... seems very intermittent
Mike
I can report that it is also happening intermittently for me to. Its across browsers (firefox, chromium), and across OS platforms.argh.... Now its doing it to me... not unique to this pc either, as I access from different sources
Will see if it improves today
Mike
Reply with quote is working, now, but editing posts on SC results in a black editing box.
-flugzeit
Intermittent for me. Can't reply on SC and some edits in Watch Talk don't work but this reply does. Get the same issue in Chrome and IE
Seems to especially happen if you're trying a multi quote too..
Not working for me today on Mac with Safari. Has been playing up for a while.
Can edit posts OK though; never been a problem.
Edit: Next post a few mins later and Quote worked fine!
Last edited by Gruntfuttock; 28th January 2016 at 18:49.
I'm having the same problem yesterday and today with a post in G&D (that I'd previously quoted somebody in). I normally use Firefox, but I also tried IE and Chrome and had the same issue with all of them.
Same with me today.
Quotes won't work.
Cheers,
Neil.
Quotes not working for me this morning.
Using Chrome with W7 Pro.
I thought there might have been a problem until I tried. Firefox with Windows 7 Pro.
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
I'm sure there is a problem but it's not consistent: Different subforums, different users (both being quoted and posting), and possibly different browsers.
I was using Pale Moon (a Firefox fork) quite happily and then all of a sudden it started experiencing these intermittent quoting and editing problems. I had changed nothing in Windows (no updates) and nothing in Pale Moon (again, no settings changes or updates).
This isn't very helpful information as it stands so from now on I'll try to record exactly what anomalies I experience.
It seems to be intermittent.
For example, I was able to quote you here and in the BMW thread (http://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?360978). But I cannot quote post #41 in that thread (and I've tried on 2 days, with 3 different browsers).
I wondered whether it has anything to do with the "smiley" in the title of that post, but I also can't quote post #42, though I can quote post #43. I can't work out a pattern for when I can, or can not, quote.
Same for me, as it now seems to be working fine.
Eddie, it was your post regarding the Range Rover diagnostic/service issues that I couldn't 'reply with quote' to this morning.
Just used quotes on the football thread and it worked fine.
It's a queer one and no mistake.
Cheers,
Neil.
It seems to have started when I installed the "Beelzebub" add-on.
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
I've just been unable to edit a post in SC. If I click on edit post, the editing box opens but is empty.
If I then click Go Advanced, I can edit the title but the box of text is still empty.
Guess I'd have to right click copy the entire message before clicking the edit button, and then paste it all back in again.
Very odd.
Using safari on my iMac.
ETA - Although I can now edit this one..........the demons are at work!
Last edited by mr noble; 2nd February 2016 at 18:56.
I've run into this as well. I don't know why, but it's intermittent. I've replied to one post with no issues, then tried to reply to another post in the same thread and had the box be blank. At first I thought it might be a mobile quirk, but I've encountered it on both iPhone and desktop.
Had another problem when composing a post for SC today....when I wanted to preview the thread it "disappeared" and I had to copy and paste to get it posted.....Via Firefox today.
<chortle>
I'm sure this is some sort of Javascript-related error. Not that that is very helpful.
Quoting you here works fine.
** edit **
As does editing.
Not sure!
RIAC
Just had exactly the same happen to me editing a sales post of mine.
Very queer.
Cheers,
Neil.
^ Me too. The error is consistent in SC and random in Watchtalk and G&D. I'm using a Chromebook.
Just adding to what everyone already knows - nightmare this morning and yesterday - CHrome on MBP - cant edit, cant delete threads, started a thread and when I edited it, it created a new duplicate thread (without the edit) and I didnt click submit twice or anything.
Not working for me either, just working through standard Google
I just edited a post in SC and it wiped everything, but after I had re-linked the picture I'm now able to edit without losing everything again.
I've been getting this today as well. Both Safari and Chrome on Mac.
Once you edit and save as you’ve described, you can re-edit without issue.
It’s as if the system doesn’t recognise there’s already text to be edited, so only displays an empty field.
Not working for me again on the work PC with Firefox.......
Randomly working and not working for me (Windows & Firefox) clearly worked this time!
Just adding that I'm also using Windows and latest version of Firefox and I'm having all 3 of the problems mentioned above:
Can't reply with quote
Preview clears out the original post
Edit message comes up with a blank
Same here.
For this forum I just use Chrome - everything works fine then.
Cheers,
Neil.
For what it's worth, same here on iPad / iPhone / Safari on mac.
Saw this for the first time in Chrome on Mac yesterday. For what it's worth, it doesn't seem to happen in Tapatalk—or at least never to me.
Ok, I have recorded some anomalies and here are my results.
First of all I should day that there are what appear to be Javascript issues that only occur with some web browsers. I have not reported on these here.
The only issue I am reporting on here is the blank quote problem: I.e. Where you quote someone's message and the edit box is empty. This problem occurs similarly across all the browsers I have tested with (IE, Edge, Firefox, Pale Moon). Sometimes, when this happens, the edit box is empty if you come back and edit your reply too (but sometimes not).
The following table shows most of the messages (from 2nd February to date) where the edit box was blank when I tried to reply to the message with a quote. I say "most" because I forgot to record the issue in some cases. All other replies that I posted worked ok. I have included the author to whom I was replying, the subforum and the thread title in case this is useful to find common parameters to the issue.
User Subforum Thread title Message being replied to My reply What happens with editing my own reply Notes Passenger The Bear Pit Does the Human Race Need War https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?p=3859728 https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?p=3859813 Blank n/a Passenger The Bear Pit Donald J Trump, a man with a plan. https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?p=3859665 Did not post reply n/a n/a Passenger The Bear Pit Does the Human Race Need War https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?p=3859950 https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?p=3861228 Blank n/a cmcm3 Watch Talk Rolex Price Increase? https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?p=3863362 https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?p=3863707 NOT blank When I post a comment with no quote, I can edit it normally. When I test posted a comment with a manually created quote, the edit box is blank when trying to edit. silly Watch Talk If Panerai wasn't a Panerai... https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?p=3863564 https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?p=3863755 NOT blank n/a nitsy Watch Talk Postage options - sending to Nomos https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?p=3863442 https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?p=3863776 Blank n/a HappyJack BMW Guidance on Value - CWC Fat Case Navigator (G10 with date)? https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?p=3865079 https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?p=3865094 Blank N.B. Quoting actually worked fine; the original message was quoted correctly. It was only editing my own message where the edit box went blank. PJ S George & Dragon Phone pics to here. How please? https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?p=3865084 https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?p=3865096 Blank n/a stix Watch Talk Citizen Signature Grand Classic NB0040-58A https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?p=3865626 https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?p=3865654 Blank n/a HappyJack BMW Guidance on Value - CWC Fat Case Navigator (G10 with date)? https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?p=3865997 https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?p=3866289 Blank n/a wolf George & Dragon Uber Taxis https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?p=3866771 https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?p=3866905 NOT blank n/a chris56 Watch Talk Penang watch shopping https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?p=3866707 https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?p=3866966 NOT blank n/a Dave+63 Watch Talk Help! I'm starting to really like Quartz. This can't be good. https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?p=3876681 https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?p=3876685 Blank n/a snowman George & Dragon Have car dealers got greedier and lazyer ? https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?p=3883988 https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?p=3885405 NOT blank n/a donkertraz Watch Talk Are the Seiko Turtles still shipping with defects? https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?p=3885268 https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?p=3885427 NOT blank n/a
Notes:
(1) When replying with the multi-quote option, if the messages being replied to include one from a user whose quoted message would have resulted in a blank edit box then the edit box is always blank, even if the messages from the other users being replied to would not have resulted in a blank edit box.
(2) In many cases where there was a blank edit box I manually re-created the quote. That's why there is a quote there in many cases even where it was not automatically created as it should have been. This is a hassle, to say the least.
Could it be related to this? Edit box blank due to special characters in post
Or this? CKEditor choking on some special characters
Could be. I can't rule it out. Most of the messages appear not to have any kind of special character but as I can't quote them to see the source code, I can't be sure. It would be necessary to directly examine the database to see what was really recorded.
Looking at the list of messages above to which I replied (fourth column), what happens when other people try to reply to them with quote? Are they able to see the quoted message in the edit box or is it blank, as with me? There's no need to actually reply; just licking the Quote icon and seeing what is in the edit box will be enough.
Possible special character test:
I can´t
^^^ YES! Special characters or character set issues are at least part of the problem.
I noticed that Passenger is posting from Spain and uses an unusual apostrophe character in the three messages of his in the table above.
As a test, I copied his phrase "I can't" (but with his apostrophe character) into my message above in the "possible special character test" section. And lo and behold, when I try to reply to my message above with quote, the edit box is blank.
So special characters or character set issues definitely are part of this problem but might not be the only cause (not the only cause because other messages which do not appear to have any special characters are still affected).
What happens if other people click 'Reply With Quote' on my message above? Is the edit box blank for them or is my message filled in?
Last edited by markrlondon; 25th February 2016 at 17:05.
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