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ImkeF's avatar
ImkeF
Community Champion
6 years ago

(HTML) Formatting not working correctly

In one of my answers, the bolded text won't show as such. Instead it shows as unformatted text:

 

 

trying to "re-edit" it, shows me it is bolded already:

 

 

some crazy HTML will be shown:

 

 

But when I copy the answer to edit it in wordpress instead (before pasting back into the forum), the html code looks nice and clean:

 

 

not surprisingly, the preview in wordpress looks as expected as well:

I suspect that this might be due to the fact that I have pasted some content into the editor before. In the following picture you see the content I have pasted from Power BI (red). It has a white background (unlike the ordinary text before). But all the text I've manually typed afterwards (and pasted) also has this white background (that has been a minor annoyance for quite some time, but I didn't really bother). But it might be causing the screwed up formatting:

 

 

4 Replies

  • JCM_iTalent's avatar
    JCM_iTalent
    Microsoft Employee
    6 years ago

    ImkeF It can happen that text shows with white background or that additional HTML code is added when copying and pasting. What I have been doing is to use the Tx "Clear formatting" option from the toolbar before posting a message with copied and pasted content. This usually fixes any formatting issues.

    • ImkeF's avatar
      ImkeF
      Community Champion
      6 years ago

      Thanks JCM_iTalent ,

      that did the trick. But only if I delete the formatting from the whole post, so it would be nice if this could be chosen selectively.

       

      BTW: It would be great if we could get back the functionality to do customized highlighting in the code blocks. The current formatting is a real step back.