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| popsrocks |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 4:42 pm |
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Reviews written: 2147 Member since: Aug 25 '02
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RE: OK help out ol' pops
Quote: pablothegreat I tried that too. It still said the same thing. I deleted all of my html tags, rewrote everything in the new site editor, and it said opening b no closing b. It doesn't like me.
I hate myself for not working longer last night before this happened!
Oh well who needs html. LOL I will just do without html until it gets figured out I guess.
That's what I did with another review I posted about ten minutes ago. I eliminated the bold.
Now I just want to get my updated review back up, but can't figure how to do it.
pops
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| yoelc |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 4:43 pm |
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Reviews written: 11 Member since: Nov 14 '06
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RE: OK help out ol' pops
Quote: pilarzmom But why were some of us getting error messages (you have a < b > without a < /b >, for example) when we were using the WYSIWYG editor?????????????
Are you pasting your review from a program when this happens?
EDITED twice to illustrate tags:
You will get this message if you are nesting tags, like this:
< b >test
< i >test< /i >
< /b >
Thanks,
Yoel
Epinions Product Manager
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| popsrocks |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 4:45 pm |
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Reviews written: 2147 Member since: Aug 25 '02
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RE: OK help out ol' pops
Quote: sleeper54 Uhmmm... Try not adding your HTML tags and use the editor on the site after pasting your 'straight text' content..??
...tom...
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Hey Tom, My case is different. I'm not using code at all except for using the function given us in the new format.
Still I'm getting the html code prob. That I'll learn but I dread having to play with every review I update. I do that often.
pops
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| captaind |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 4:46 pm |
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Reviews written: 1055 Member since: Jan 19 '03
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RE: OK help out ol' pops
Great. I've just gone to edit my most recent post, and it's been completely obliterated by weird and not very wonderful HTML codes... plus it's nearly one in the morning here so I'm going to have to leave it several hours to sort out!!
Perhaps it might need a little more bug-testing?!! :-D
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| popsrocks |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 4:47 pm |
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Reviews written: 2147 Member since: Aug 25 '02
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RE: OK help out ol' pops
Quote: yoelc Are you pasting your review from a program when this happens?
EDITED twice to illustrate tags:
You will get this message if you are nesting tags, like this:
< b >test
< i >test< /i >
< /b >
Thanks,
Yoel
Epinions Product Manager
Hey Yoel, What am I, Chopped Liver!?
Try and give me a helpin' hand too.
Thanks,
pops
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| jps246 |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 4:58 pm (Updated: Aug 27 '08, 5:02 pm) |
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Reviews written: 846 Member since: Jan 25 '01
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published a review
Quote: captaind Great. I've just gone to edit my most recent post, and it's been completely obliterated by weird and not very wonderful HTML codes...
You've got to open the little HTML editor that they have (the "HTML" button) and then edit the HTML directly since I think the various HTML codes get nested the wrong way and get rejected by the editor.
I just posted a new review. I wrote it in Open Office. Copied it and pasted it in via the "paste from word" function and I didn't include any HTML code in the original. When it got brought in, it had a few extra line spaces (which seems to happen when you paste text in from a program into a web editor like this). I deleted the extra line spaces and then went and highlighted and bolded the titles using (cntrl-b).
Went to publish and got the (b) without a (/b) error. Went into the HTML editor and attempted to clean it up. Still had the error.
Deleted what was in the editor, pulled it in through the word paste function again and removed the extra line spaces. Instead of using (cntrl-b) to bold the titles, this time I just highlighted them and used the bold button on the editor. Also added a link.
That time it published without any problem. |
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| pablothegreat |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 4:58 pm |
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Reviews written: 919 Member since: Dec 05 '07
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RE: OK help out ol' pops
Not nesting tags, html illiterate here. Didn't even know that could be done! |
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| dragonfire88 |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 4:59 pm |
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Reviews written: 1175 Member since: Jul 20 '01
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RE: OK help out ol' pops, again
I read the thing in the Member Center about the new editor. I saw that it said something about a Word button for people who copy and paste from Word. Will that work for me since I use WordPerfect?
After reading all the posts about the problems people are having with his new editor, I am dreading trying to post another review and I still have 3 more to go to get to 20. |
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| jps246 |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 5:01 pm (Updated: Aug 27 '08, 5:02 pm) |
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Reviews written: 846 Member since: Jan 25 '01
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importing
Quote: dragonfire88 I saw that it said something about a Word button for people who copy and paste from Word. Will that work for me since I use WordPerfect?
I think it should work - I used it to post something I wrote in the Open Office word processor.
You can also paste it directly into the editor, you'll just have more formatting to to since there might be a few more extra line spaces and such.
So long as you don't try to pull in any HTML code (don't include it in what you are writing) and then format the review in the editor by highlighting whatever you want to bold or italic and using the buttons on the editor, it seems to work without a problem.
Jeff
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| pablothegreat |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 5:01 pm |
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Reviews written: 919 Member since: Dec 05 '07
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RE: OK help out ol' pops, again
I tried that too and it still came up with the same error. I am wondering if I write my review directly into the site without using Wordpad if it will accept it? Will try that before eliminating all html tonight.
popsrock I have a question...double spacing is good? I thought it looked really empty and you are saying you like it better that way, easier to read? Or did I mistake what you said?
Quote: dragonfire88 I read the thing in the Member Center about the new editor. I saw that it said something about a Word button for people who copy and paste from Word. Will that work for me since I use WordPerfect?
After reading all the posts about the problems people are having with his new editor, I am dreading trying to post another review and I still have 3 more to go to get to 20.
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| gamblin_man |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 5:04 pm |
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Reviews written: 389 Member since: Apr 08 '01
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RE: OK help out ol' pops
Quote: popsrocks Hey Larry did the review with the HTML prob already have HTML used in it?
That's where my problem seems to be on the update I'm trying to rectify. I used the I in that one when I first posted it last week. No prob then. Prob now.
pops
Both of them had existing HTML. shrug.
Larry
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| jps246 |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 5:05 pm |
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Reviews written: 846 Member since: Jan 25 '01
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RE: OK help out ol' pops, again
Quote: pablothegreat I tried that too and it still came up with the same error. I am wondering if I write my review directly into the site without using Wordpad if it will accept it? Will try that before eliminating all html tonight.
You can't have any HTML code in your review when you are importing it, otherwise the editor will mess up the ordering of the tags and it won't work. You have to import a clean copy of your review and then use the editor's functions to bold/italic/link in your review.
Quote: pablothegreat popsrock I have a question...double spacing is good? I thought it looked really empty and you are saying you like it better that way, easier to read? Or did I mistake what you said?
Many newbies write without any spaces between paragraphs which makes for one giant mash of text that's next to impossible to read. The editor automatically adds the space between paragraphs. |
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| jps246 |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 5:07 pm |
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Reviews written: 846 Member since: Jan 25 '01
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RE: OK help out ol' pops
Quote: gamblin_man Both of them had existing HTML. shrug.
I know it stinks, but it almost might be easier to copy your review as it is from Eps, then update it. Delete what's there, paste in what you've copied from the published review and then go and update all the links and all the HTML, otherwise it seems like the HTML errors are going to be overwhelming on reviews with lots of links (I'm think of several of mine).
That is unless there's something of a fix, but I'm not sure how much can be done.
Jeff
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| dragonfire88 |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 5:11 pm |
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Reviews written: 1175 Member since: Jul 20 '01
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RE: importing
Quote: jps246 I think it should work - I used it to post something I wrote in the Open Office word processor.
You can also paste it directly into the editor, you'll just have more formatting to to since there might be a few more extra line spaces and such.
So long as you don't try to pull in any HTML code (don't include it in what you are writing) and then format the review in the editor by highlighting whatever you want to bold or italic and using the buttons on the editor, it seems to work without a problem.
Jeff
Geeze. That is going to make posting a review a longer process for me. I have the review typed up, edited and the code done before I would try to post. Then all I had to do was copy/paste and I was done in like a minute.
I've seen that some people like this new editor thing, but I don't think I'm going to like it. I honestly would rather keep doing it the way I have been - with no problems - for years. There wasn't anything wrong with the editor yet that had to be messed with while other long standing problems still aren't fixed. I'm sorry, but that doesn't make sense to me.
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| dragonfire88 |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 5:14 pm |
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Reviews written: 1175 Member since: Jul 20 '01
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RE: OK help out ol' pops
Quote: popsrocks Hey Tom, My case is different. I'm not using code at all except for using the function given us in the new format.
Still I'm getting the html code prob. That I'll learn but I dread having to play with every review I update. I do that often.
pops
Your problems with updating older reviews are scaring me. I have been going back to update as well, sometimes it is just a little thing I find I need to fix. I don't want to deal with a huge mess of errors when all the html and links were fine when I originally submitted.
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| dragonfire88 |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 5:16 pm |
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Reviews written: 1175 Member since: Jul 20 '01
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RE: OK help out ol' pops, again
Quote: jps246 Many newbies write without any spaces between paragraphs which makes for one giant mash of text that's next to impossible to read. The editor automatically adds the space between paragraphs.
So does that mean that if I copy over what I have typed up - with spacing between my paragraphs - that I'll end up with all kinds of extra spacing that I'll have to go back and take out?
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| jps246 |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 5:22 pm |
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Reviews written: 846 Member since: Jan 25 '01
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RE: OK help out ol' pops, again
Quote: dragonfire88 So does that mean that if I copy over what I have typed up - with spacing between my paragraphs - that I'll end up with all kinds of extra spacing that I'll have to go back and take out?
It could be :(
When I pasted in my review from the Open Office Word Processor each paragraph had an extra space between it (2 instead of one) so I had to go through and delete the extra space.
I've run across this on other WYSIWYG web text editors, I think it must have something to do with the formatting within the word processor when you bring it in - that what I guess the word paste function is trying to help with, but it didn't seem to help there. |
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| dragonfire88 |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 5:34 pm |
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Reviews written: 1175 Member since: Jul 20 '01
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RE: OK help out ol' pops, again
Quote: jps246 It could be :(
When I pasted in my review from the Open Office Word Processor each paragraph had an extra space between it (2 instead of one) so I had to go through and delete the extra space.
I've run across this on other WYSIWYG web text editors, I think it must have something to do with the formatting within the word processor when you bring it in - that what I guess the word paste function is trying to help with, but it didn't seem to help there.
Well if that is the case, it is going to be a huge pain in the neck. :( |
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| pilarzmom |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 6:08 pm (Updated: Aug 27 '08, 6:09 pm) |
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RE: OK help out ol' pops
Quote: yoelc Are you pasting your review from a program when this happens?
EDITED twice to illustrate tags:
You will get this message if you are nesting tags, like this:
< b >test
< i >test< /i >
< /b >
Thanks,
Yoel
Epinions Product Manager
I copy it from Notepad (write it in Word, convert it to text) so there aren't any tags there when I originally pasted it.
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| rkingfish |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 6:11 pm |
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RE: OK help out ol' pops, again
Quote: jps246 Many newbies write without any spaces between paragraphs which makes for one giant mash of text that's next to impossible to read. The editor automatically adds the space between paragraphs.
So when we create the document in Word we're supposed to leave no spaces between paragraphs to accommodate the new format?
Is this seriously being sold to us as progress?
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