why are the forum posts changing my text size at random

I think it's happening to all of us.

Maybe they will work things out in a few days (or weeks).

Hang in there.

🙂

IF you copy text from one part of the reply, and paste it to another part of the reply, it is changing the font size on its own. I have seen this happen over and over again. It has been reported to the hosts as a bug. Something similar can happen when you quote another post.

If this is what you are seeing, it is not you, it is this "new and improved" ASC software. Just keep repeating to yourself "Apple discussions have never looked better" or whatever that banner that ran across the top of every page was saying. 😉

See what I mean? It happened in my reply.

JimmyCMPIT wrote:

change the font size at random.

It is an obvious glitch in the new implementation of the Jive software.

Don't feel alone 😉

It is hard to be certain exactly why this is happening if you simply type a post from beginning to end and hit reply. If you copy and paste from elsewhere, or perhaps if your move content around inside an edit then it because the style of the source has become attached to the copy and comes with it. Previously this wasn't so noticeable as the font sizes in the editor and the posted body text were similar.

As a test I'm going to try moving (sentence around) the last part of this.

Sure enough the two words I cut and pasted have now had the styling information <span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> attached to them even though all I did was move around plain text in an unzoomed window. There is tool in the advanced editor that removes formatting, and another that applies the standard paragraph style, but they don't correct every issue with content copied from an older post. In some cases these have style information attached to say the hyperlink tag and cleaning either doesn't work, breaks the link, or makes it appear as plain text when it isn't. I'm spending much more time cleaning up styling errors than I used to. 😟

tt2

tt2 explains it so eloquently in technical terms, but all that really means is the software is broken. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. But In this case, Apple took the silk purse and turned it into a sow's ear.

Demo wrote:

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

No but you can put lipstick on a pig 😉

leroydouglas wrote:

Demo wrote:

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

No but you can put lipstick on a pig 😉

But it's still a pig.

Did I get this problem right?

I'm going to do a little testing. I don't have anything to say until I do my testing. I do need to have some words to test. I guess that I need to type out some words so I can do my test. I need to type only a little bit more. My test "type out some" I have enough words now. How is this problem done? "type out some". seems ok. You mean this problem ... "

text size"

When you copy, the formatting comes with the text. To get rid of the formatting you need to copy the text to some app which doesn't persevere the formatting. One pace is the firefox search box. From search box. "text size"

R

To be fair to Apple I think this particular issue might be buried in the TinyMCE editor, and it has only become so apparent because of the new choice of font size. I think we were on 14pt before and difference to 13.3333pt was much harder to notice.

Here goes a live CSS experiment. I've just tweaked this page to show the editor text at 13.3333pt and I'm going to shuffle a few words around as before to see what happens: Cart Horse . How did we do?

Argh, the wrong direction, let's have another go with the editor set to 8pt: Cart Horse. Can you guess?

Still wants to resize (10.6667px this time). One last thought is not to set the font size for the editor text at all. Third time lucky: Cart Horse. Bingo!

So this line of CSS stops the site telling the editor what size text to use, and in turn anything copied and pasted within the editor shouldn't acquire a size that hadn't already been set.

.tiny_mce_content {font-size: inherit !important} /* Prevent cut & paste scale errors in TinyMCE */

Another line to go into my Minimal CSS tweaks for ASC.

tt2

Not sure if I noticed this problem or not, but I do notice that what I copied into the input box doesn't equal what I see on output. For a long while I never reported problems with edit. It was so bug filled. Don't know why apple stays with this editor. There are a lot of other around the 'net.

R

turingtest2 wrote:

To be fair to Apple I think this particular issue might be buried in the TinyMCE editor,

TO be fair to the people that use this site, do they actually test this stuff? This issue seems like one that should have come up during testing. Do they not think to edit a reply, or to copy and paste text when they test this?

I'll say it again, at the very, very least, Apple, the hosts, mods, engineers, whoever, should ask you to become a tester for the next release of the new Jive Software. Heaven help us when they improve this site again. 😁

HEY APPLE, ARE YOU LISTENING

The easiest way to test for this issue is to type some words in one order, then put them in another, using nothing more than copy and paste within the editor. My approach was to write the words horse and cart and then what happened when I moved the cart before the horse. As soon as I did this I switched to the html editor to see what had been done to what should otherwise have been plain text.

Amazingly I believe I've cracked it completely. I've just rearranged cart and horse and cats and dogs, and no unwanted fixed sizes. 😀

tt2

Did you update your CSS tweaks? Make it easy on us, please.

Demo wrote:

Did you update your CSS tweaks? Make it easy on us, please.

Yep, I'm up to version 1.08 of the Minimal CSS tweaks for ASC now.

tt2