New fixes, flexibility in your text editor

[Evan]

The text editor, used across many parts of your Ning Networks, has just been revamped with some fixes and improvements. 

No More Unwanted Line Breaks in Pages

As many Network Creators have pointed out, the text editor on the Pages feature can add unwanted line breaks when switching between HTML and Visual mode. The issue: <br /> tags were added at the end of each line of text after switching back to HTML view. 

This has now been fixed, and should no longer occur on Pages.

 

Autorecover

We've added a new "Autorecover" feature to the text editor to help anyone who accidentally loses what they were working on in the text editor. After working on a blog post, discussion or broadcast message that is at least 50 characters long, you'll notice an "Autorecover" link appear at the bottom of the editor:

If you refresh the page (or your browser crashes for some reason and you return to the page), you'll see the Autorecover link appear. Click it, and the last-saved version of the post will appear! This Autorecover link will be available for up to 20 minutes (new versions are saved every 60 seconds).

 

New options that fix Blockquoting and wrap text in <p> tags

If you use the blockquote function a lot, you may have noticed that there can be a problem with the blockquote tool in the text editor: You can't un-blockquote text after you have turned blockquoting on. 

That problem was caused by turning off a rule in the text editor that wraps your text in <p> tags, even when using HTML mode. To fix the blockquoting issue, we're testing out a new option for NCs to force all text to be wrapped in <p> tags, even when using the HTML view — which today uses <br /> tags each time you hit return.

You can find the new checkbox on the Text Editor page in your Dashboard, under the "Features" section of your Settings:

Hit the checkbox for "Switching to WYSIWYG view forces all text in paragraph tags," and all of your paragraphs will use <p> tags. And, your blockquote button should work correctly. 

We'd love your feedback on how you like this option. We're considering rolling it out platform-wide, but we want to hear how you use it.

[doone]

Great!  Thanks, Evan.

[Patrick Chappelle]

Thank you, Evan.

[ismail shah]

Awsome changes Evan. i pointed out the Qoute fix and that done :P

[solo]

Give me 5 on the backside thats dyanomite EVAN

[mark]

Been playing around with this. Very nice. A welcome update.

[Speed Racer]

Evan, you have earned yet ANOTHER CARLTON DANCE! I think you have the lead, lol.

[Writer Chick {Diane}]

Thanks so much for the fixes!  I've enabled the paragraph thing.  We'll see how it works!

[Kath]

Same here, thank you so much.  The <Br>  is fixed.  The autorecover is a great idea and I will test this as I go.  The paragraph change is interesting, I've enabled it and will watch what it does.

[Emmanuel Ace]

[soaringeagle]

i love love love thre autocomplete feature theres just 1 thing id like to see fixed

someimes when i say fix a typo (i typo alot) then use the down arrow key to bring the curser back to the end of the typed text the curser looks like its at the end however when u hit enter, it inserts the <p> or </ br> after the 1st letter you typed in the post (i often dont watch what im typing so it really screws me up)

 

example

intended post

hi i like ning sites theyre cool blah blah blah

so umm i got nothing much to say blah blah blah

gee never thought making up phony text would be so boring

 

now say i typed nothimg and corrected that after typing the last blah on that  line hit down arrow to get to the end of line 2 then enter to start line 3 you get this

 

h

gee never thought making up phony text would be so boring

i i like ning sites theyre cool blah blah blah

so umm i got nothing much to say blah blah blah

 

 

this issue happens to me all the time

[Arnold Burian]

This happens to me all the time...and it drives me nuts. It's as if the editor refuses to type at the cursor location, and instead starts inserting text at the top.

[soaringeagle]

it drives me insane too

its an odd lil bug too isnt it cause it doesnt just start at tye tiop, but after the 1st letter