I notice that when I use the quote function and organize a response to a topic thread, I don’t get the normal full preview when I ask for it on the button below the screen. Instead, what I get is a screen with the HTML codes. Previously, I would get a final page as it would appear without the codes. It is hard to know whether we have the HTML correct if we cannot see a final version of the page in the preview mode prior to submitting the post. I am using an Internet Explorer browser with XP.
minor point…there ain’t no HTML code, all there is is BBCode
you don’t have “Disable BBCode” checked do you?
'cause I did for this post
but not this one
Thanks for your help, Denny. In the user control panel, on editing posting defaults, I have “yes” to enable BBC code, which is the default postion. However, when I attempt to preview this post, I don’t see what the final submitted post will look like. I see all the codes, contrary to what I saw in the past. I am not able to see the final page until I actually press the submit button. I can edit it, of course, but I would like to make revisions before I actually pressed the submit button.
yeah, I thought that was what you were saying. 
The preview has been working fine for me. I also use it fairly often before I submit.
There is also a (by post) override just under the text box. Which is where I turned BBCode off for my 1st post.
Preview works fine for me too, Doug, in both Firefox and IE. I haven’t heard of any other complaints about it yet.
If you really mean HTML (not BBC code), then that’s
because it’s been disabled boardwide. So something
like this won’t work:
When I press the quote tab at the bottom of a post that I would like to reply to and then indicate that I want to post a reply, I receive the quoted passage in the coded format. This is no different than what I was getting before. When I made comments to the quoted passage and then pressed the preview tab below the screen, I saw the quotes in boxes, just as it would appear on the final submitted screen. When I did this to the above post and then pressed the preview tab, this is what I see:
testing
In my mind, that isn’t a preview screen. It is a duplication of my first screen. I see that I can’t use this example because the submitted example is in final boxed format while my preview screen had all of the "
codes.
And that example didn’t show what I had intended either.
I can’t explain that. I’m not getting that. I’m getting an actual preview. I’ll poke around in your user settings to see if I can get a clue.
I tried pokin’ at siggy lines earlier today.
The preview screen looks the same as this one but it does not run through the BBCode translator for me.
Ah, the stuff in the preview box looks just the same as the stuff in the edit box.
Anyone else wanna have a go?