Formatting on the Forums

A Former User

In fact, putting extra lines before and after major elements sections (lists, quotes, blocks of pre-formatted text, line rules, etc.) is always a good idea.

You know what?
In most cases it might even look tidier - so you're generally right...

You can even put multiple if you like, they will not show as extras.

If I don't want to use line rules ("<hr>" or alike) but do want to show some (logical) separation within my posting, I insert between a double-break before and another one after*:idea:*

ruario

ruario

@joshl Just wanted to quickly say thanks for this thread! You and I have not always seen eye to eye but this thread did prompt me to try and get things improved, so a big thanks for that! :cheers:

Ok, emphasis works now and we have changed the help page to have [basic Markdown] instructions…

We also link them from the note below the comments input field. Hope that helps everyone.

A Former User

Ok, emphasis works now and...

Well, does it?
And what about this?

Well, both ways - the italics thing works.
(Ruario, you don't need to "@poop" me that way: in any case I prefer the standard punctuation - like "Ruario, you don't need to...":cheers:)

ruario

ruario

Well, both ways - the italics thing works.

Yes the HTML tags that worked before all still work. In addition <em> now works as well. However, using the Markdown methods is quicker and easier, IMHO.

you don't need to "@poop" me that way

Ah yes, you did specifically ask me not to do that in this thread. Sorry!

A Former User

I usually call people this way:

@birdblack:
Hey, Birdblack, what do you think.. *_blah-blah-blah_* ...

A Former User

Testing if the <dfn> element works here:

<p>The <dfn title="World Health Organization">WHO</dfn> was founded in 1948.
:rolleyes:
Yeah, it does! :yes:

A Former User

For those who wonders IF:

Yes, apart from the Markdown syntax, you can format your input with most of basic HTML tags - inline ones mostly.

Use starting the line with four whitespaces to show some code.
Remember: Markdown syntax might sometimes not work within your HTML tags (or maybe otherwise**).

And yes, you're welcome to test some formatting in this thread.
But please, you might want to read it through first - lots of stuff has already been discussed and tested here previously.

Thanks*:)*

A Former User

Have you tried opera://flags#enable-autofill-ignore-autocomplete-off?

The forum does not recognize opera:// urls...

Yeah, just tried this <link> syntax, so decided to move to a dedicated thread in order to undertake some experimenting...

First, what about trying to force it using Markdown?
Check 1: "opera://flags#enable-autofill-ignore-autocomplete-off" (a [link](link) syntax).
Now using HTML syntax: opera://flags#enable-autofill-ignore-autocomplete-off

Well, it doesn't seem to work: I can see a "denied-blah-blah" tooltip in both cases...
[WHISPER]It wasn't actually a tooltip, but you get it, I believe...:zip:[/WHISPER]
WHISPER2: Ah! Sorry! Forgot to mention I'm with Google Chrome now.///

l33t4opera

l33t4opera

Hi @moderators, adding images in a post content is completely broken for me.

No matter which type of image you try to attach: PNG, or JPG, it doesn't show up, and instead of it, it shows the link to the image.

It also doesn't matter, if one use the Markdown syntax, as shown below:

![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg) or ![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg "Optional title")

or that you use HTML tag:
![](path/to/image.jpg)

It just doesn't work. Is that know issue, and are you trying to fix it already, or not?

sgunhouse

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer

There was a reason I couldn't get all the images into your previous post, and I don't think it had to do with the fact some were in PNG format. You'd have to ask the staff in regards to fixing things.

sgunhouse

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer

Also of note, I can't see any of the image links when you reported your own post and asked to have us help edit it. I wonder if they're worried about some new exploit I haven't heard about yet and are blocking images until their AV can scan it ...

A Former User

@l33t4opera
I just checked your old comments - there are images there.

sgunhouse

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer

They didn't remove existing images, but try to post a new one ...

A Former User

Just fixed a couple of images - working good :whistle:

A Former User

l33t4opera

l33t4opera

Hi @sgunhouse, thanks for the prompt reply, and for all of your help - I really appreciate it

I wonder who's the most appropriate person in Opera, which can provide more details on that matter? - unless, there's already someone working on it, and this will be resolved any time soon?

Hi @joshl, thanks for the reply, yes, as Steve mentioned above, the old images are fine, but it seems, that the issue has a place, when one want to add some new images (in my case specifically PNG images).

A Former User

Let's give it a try: you provide such a link (forming an image optional), I take it and post an image. That should be strict.
However, Steve's avatar appears to be PNG, and I had success with it (though the post was held).

A Former User

@davehawley
Yes, but honestly, why should I have to?!
What you type should be what you get. It is on every single other forum I use except this one.

Not at all.
Every decent forum has its ways to format text and do other stuff. How on earth should it be supposed to be not using certain reserved symbols??
There are regular characters - that which are used in ''normal'' language typing, right? Letters and punctuation marks. Agreed some of the latter are reserved here too, as well as ''not normal'' characters - like asterisc etc. But still.
Seriously???

Agreed that there's certain duplicating using both underscores and asteriscs for the same. However, it follows HTML standard - it's THERE where there is such duplicacy: they have their "strong" and other "schmong" which usually do exactly the same things - but they ''THINK'' they're reserving those in case some day in the future blah-blah-blah or some other schiit.