Hello all

Lately I have seen that while I write a post or answer a thread the smilies or other options like Font color, making font bold or italics are grayed out and I can not use any of these.
Has anyone experienced this. I use FireFox 3.0.6 and Opera 9.63.
But FF is what I use more often and use opera once in a while on Hardy.

Just a few samples:



You can not include more then 15 images in your message. You are limited to using 6 images so you have to go back and correct the problem and then continue again, if that happened.

Otherwise it works for me (I'm using FireFox).

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T74marcell

Arch Linux

I do not need to use 15 but at least one should work.

Check the "posting rules" box below.
Mine says:
Also check your preferences. Look under Miscellaneous Options > message editor interface

Check if you are blocking anything in the browser.
Personally, I don't like to see smileys because it messes up code, so I keep disabling them.

These are my posting rules

I have not blocked anything in the browser. It does not hurt me if I can not post smilies but other options like Bold, Italics are useful.
I also checked preferences but there is nothing that says it blocked the options.
Anyhow I can still ask questions and help other members here without smilies as well. But I would have liked to use highlighting and text formating options.

Moved: This thread is more suitable in <LQ suggestions and feedback> and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

No problem here.

Hmmm ... I cannot seem to post at all using the gui editor - I can hit quote on BrianLs post, and add my reply, but the screen returns with "message too small" and all that remains is the quoted text ... nothing that I added remains.

Now I am using firefox fully updated under intrepid.
Using the advanced gui is set to on in my settings.
Perhaps its something to do with noscript?

linuxquestions.org is allowed does anyone else need to be allowed?

@BrianL: how did you enter thu smileys? Did you use the gui button? How secure are your browser settings?

I just used the "Go Advanced" option, and GUI button. I haven't got NoScript, and am using default browser (FF 3.0.6) security settings.

I tried changing settings in my profile but it does not seem to work. Go advanced button takes me to the editor but all the options are disabled. What are the settings in your profile that could affect this? Anything that I might have missed.

Just wantedTo check how it looked.
Seems to beworking for me.

I can't find anything that would prevent you using 's, bold, italic, etc.

Seems only me can not use those options. Thats ok. I can still post. I would like to use those options though and if anyone had this problem before ?

Simon Bridge: You'll need to allow ajax.googleapis.com as well.

linuxlover.chaitanya: I'm not able to reproduce your issue. Are you using any browser extensions or browsing through some kind of proxy?

--jeremy

OK - enabled: googleapis.com (there is no ajax.googleapis.com in the list)

[about Google APIs] ... I'm guessing that this is what it's about.

I had the same issue as OP - but allowing google-apis in noscript has enabled the missing options.

It may be worth putting a note in the change profile page to mention this.

It is a good idea for people to use secure settings in their browsers (linux makes your own stuff pretty secure, but malware can still run in the browser itself). Including a note to the effect that

LQ encourages users to maintain a whitelist for javascript by default, whitelisting LQ will give access to almost all the features on the site. Whitelisting googleapis.com will enable additional buttons in the gui editor.