Quoting a post in Chrome loses smilies

[capnTelescope]

Somewhere in the middle of my build journal, I switched from Firefox to Chrome. Since then, I've noticed that when I quote part of a post, I lose the smilies.

Is this a quirk of Chrome, or do I need to change a setting?

[capnTelescope]

For Example:

... I lose the smilies.

[capnTelescope]

OTOH, if I quote the whole post, everything's OK:

Somewhere in the middle of my build journal, I switched from Firefox to Chrome. Since then, I've noticed that when I quote part of a post, I lose the smilies.

Is this a quirk of Chrome, or do I need to change a setting?

[tony.latham]

Somewhere in the middle of my build journal, I switched from Firefox to Chrome. Since then, I've noticed that when I quote part of a post, I lose the smilies.

Well...... let's see what happens. I'm using Chrome on a Mac I just used a copy/paste to get your quote and smiley in.

TL

[Gage]

OTOH, if I quote the whole post, everything's OK:

....................I lose the smilies.

Strange, I don't get that result when I do just a part of a quote. But who am I, I don't know anything?

[teddy]

I lose the smilies.

seems to be ok with Chrome.

[capnTelescope]

Am I the only one in the whole wide world with this problem?

[Gage]

Somewhere in the middle of my build journal, I switched from Firefox to Chrome. Since then, I've noticed that when I quote part of a post, I lose the smilies.

When you only do part of a quote, take your time and be sure you don't remove the coding for the smiley. Also check and be sure that you haven't checked the box to DISABLE SMILIES.

[absolutsnwbrdr]

Am I the only one in the whole wide world with this problem?

Just pay attention to the text as you quote it and not accidentally delete the emoticon if you only intend to quote part of the post. The coding used to quote posts is built into the forum software and doesn't have anything to do with browser selection.

[mikeschn]

Brad,

I just looked at your settings, and you do not have smilies turned off.

So I can only guess that when you did a partial quote you might have deleted the text that makes up the smilie...

for example a colon : and a parenthesis ) without a space in between makes a

Mike...

[Gage]

Brad,
I just looked at your settings, and you do not have smilies turned off.
Mike...

Mike, you can override that setting simply by checking the box that is provided below the main box that you enter you text listed under options.
EXAMPLE :thinking:

[Gage]

It only affects that reply as noted here. I didn't check the box as I did in the last post. ......

[mikeschn]

That's correct Gage. I checked each of Brad's posts as well!

But if you look at the text of Brad's post, there is no colon, and no parenthesis. Which leads me to believe he edited them out.




Mike...

[capnTelescope]

When you only do part of a quote, take your time and be sure you don't remove the coding for the smiley. Also check and be sure that you haven't checked the box to DISABLE SMILIES.

I don't remove the coding, it didn't get put there in the first place.
I don't ever check disable smilies. In fact, I just had to really look carefully to find where. I like smilies.

Just pay attention to the text as you quote it and not accidentally delete the emoticon if you only intend to quote part of the post.

I've been paying extra attention, since this problem surfaced, to make sure I select the smilie before I quote. I'm selecting them. honest I am.

The coding used to quote posts is built into the forum software and doesn't have anything to do with browser selection.

That would seem to be correct, except in my case, apparently.

So I can only guess that when you did a partial quote you might have deleted the text that makes up the smilie...

for example a colon : and a parenthesis ) without a space in between makes a

If the smiley code got deleted, I didn't do it

But if you look at the text of Brad's post, there is no colon, and no parenthesis. Which leads me to believe he edited them out.

That would be a great practical joke to pull on y'all. But I didn't do it.

If I select text that contains a smiley, copy and paste it into my text editor, the smiley code comes through.
If I try to quote the same selection, (sniffle) no smiley.

BTW, that's kinda strange. If I view the source of the page by using the browser function, it's an image tag that renders the smiley. But I don't recall seeing the smiley code. Maybe Chrome doesn't handle that somehow.

I can work around the problem, but it's an annoyance.

[capnTelescope]

I don't usually quote photos, so this is a test.