Posts getting deleted while writing them (Read 648 times)

Since the changeover to the new post-writing boxes, I've been having a minor problem.

If I am writing a post, and I click on anything outside the box (i.e. the white space to the right of the browser window between the box and the scroll bar, or the scroll bar), and hit the delete button, the browser returns me to the thread page and I lose everything I've written. I click back to the post writing page but everything I've written is gone. A bummer when you've written a few paragraphs.

 

It usually happens when I need to scroll a bit, I sometimes accidentally hit delete, but sometimes I hit delete on purpose, but forgot to click back in the box.

 

I'm working on Firefox on Mac. It does it on Safari as well.

 

 

--Jimmy

I must have started a new bad habit, as I have never had this happen before here. I've lost a bunch of posts since the new boxes arrived. If there is no way around it, maybe there is a way to change the code so that what you've written does not get deleted when the delete button sends you back a page.

 

Actually, maybe that what is different. I think we were able to go back a page and return and what you had written was still there. I just tried using the back button, and came back, and everything was gone.

 

--Jimmy

Thanks for the backup research, Trent.

 

--Jimmy

Thanks for your time and energy, Eric. Just to see if I'm understanding you. When I used to go back a page and back to the post-writing area, I didn't lose what I had written. I never l lost it once. Now with the new post-writing boxes (whatever it's called), I lose what I've written if I go back a page. But it's the browser set-up and not the RA website?

 

That means something has changed in both my browsers. Would you know what that is? Is there some setting that has changed?

 

This never used to happen and I've lost a bunch of posts, and it's a bummer to have to write them over again, especially if you put some time into it. What happens is that I think the insertion is live in the box, but it's not and when I delete to backspace, the browser takes it back a page and erases everything. This can happen if I miss one of the buttons like the emoticons and hit white space, then thinking I can pick up where I left off, if I hit delete or accidentally hit it, I lose everything.

 

--Jimmy

I also noticed that I can't copy my text anymore so I can paste.

I also noticed that I can't copy my text anymore so I can paste.

 

You can't right-click and copy like you used to.  You have to click on the second icon from the left (above the "I") to "copy."   Then click on the third icon from the left (above the "U") to paste.

Oh.  I always use keyboard shortcuts.  Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V.

 Oh, yeah, that works, too!  Just not the right-clicking, I guess.

Right clicking IS working on my Mac.

 

copy

 

paste

 

Right clicking IS working on my Mac.

 

 

 

Huh, that's odd.  I've tried several times on IE6, but it still doesn't work.  Oh, well, not a bad deal.