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Posting html
I'd like to just cut and past html (since the format is already

done, links etc) but although I selected 'html and markup' as the posting style the html is just coming out like below (tags treated as text)

<hr>hello<p>next

I notice there was some talk of dropping allowing html in posts for version 1.2 (which is what I am using) but I assume this was not done or else I couldn't pick the 'html' or 'markup and html' styles for forums.

Can anyone tell me how I get get html rendered correctly in posts?

Thanks.

doug
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Re: [dougrobb] Posting html In reply to
It seems to be working fine (just tested here). Are you attempting to use the advanced editor? Copying and pasting HTML tags through it doesn't work too well - if at all.

Jason Rhinelander
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Re: [Jagerman] Posting html In reply to
Ok so I must be doing something stupid. On this reply I am using the basic editor but notice the only post styles available are plain text and markup so the test below won't work will it?

Ok lets try putting in an underline in this
post <hr> and then bolding a word <b>hello</b>
and as you can see the tags are not rendered.

But at least I know that this funtionality wasn't removed so I'll explore some more.

Thanks doug
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Re: [dougrobb] Posting html In reply to
I didn't manage to C&P either. Copied from a pucture (actually from webalizer a table), pasted in advanced editor, which showed perfectly correct, but as soon as I hit send, all was mixed up. Same with basic editor. It pasted HTML but did not parse even though set up for the forum in admin (markup and html).
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Re: [blackjack] Posting html In reply to
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It pasted HTML but did not parse even though set up for the forum in admin (markup and html).

I've played for a while tonight as well still no joy in advanced or basic editor. If you cut and paste a web page from a browser window it views ok initially but if you go to edit
(say in the basic editor) its turns the page into the GT markup tags and not *HTML* which is what I want to work with. I just want the html tags to render just like the markup tags do.

eg <hr> this doesn't underline but the markup tag equivalent does!

So if I 'view source' and cut and past the actual html
(eg <b>this should be bold</b>) it doesn't parse the html at all but just treats the html as text.

I was hoping you could just work with html (and therefore cut and past html). There is so much content I have already in html I don't want to recode into markup or have to retype
and lose all my nice formating in tables etc.

BTW the it works "here" link on the reply to my first post is a dead link so I can't see what you are getting at. This particular forum doesn't have html as a post style so I don't think it can be demo'ed in this forum at least.

doug