what's the difference :huh:

[erik.van.geit]

Hi, admins,

I asked this already to no avail. So trying to shed more light on this using a very condensed example.
As you can see these two lines do not display the same

ex1
  A  B  
ex2
A B

although in the MrExcelMessageBoard-Editor they appear exactly the same

ex1
  A  B  
ex2
  A  B  

how to get these examples
ex1: paste directly from clipboard using Table-It (delete all non relevant items and tags)
ex2: select ex1 (in editor, so including facetags), Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V

intresting info
when pasting Table-It using FireFox member NBVC got ex2 instead of ex1

running some code on both examples the results are exactly the same

[	Chr(91)
f	Chr(102)
a	Chr(97)
c	Chr(99)
e	Chr(101)
=	Chr(61)
o	Chr(111)
u	Chr(117)
r	Chr(114)
i	Chr(105)
 	Chr(32)
N	Chr(78)
w	Chr(119)
]	Chr(93)
B	Chr(66)
/	Chr(47)

What's the difference for the Board-software then ?
cane some admin see what happens ?

kind regards,
Erik

 

[Von Pookie]

I really have no idea what to tell you.

All I know is that the BBcode that is entered seems to be translated into HTML when posted. The HTML code for ex1 and ex2 appears exactly the same in the page's source code as well.

If I get a moment, perhaps I can look around--or even ask about it--over on the phpbb forums, see if something can't be figured out.

 

[erik.van.geit]

Thank you, Kristy !

It would be nice, if someone can figure this out.

 

[starl]

look at the source

& nbsp;& nbsp;A& nbsp;& nbsp;B  & nbsp;
A B

there are probably characters that look the same to you but to software are different

 

[Von Pookie]

That's the weird thing. As far as I am seeing, the resulting HTML for this thread is displaying the exact same code for both ex1 and ex2:

ex1


<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: normal">  A  B  </span>


ex2


<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: normal">  A  B  </span>

It's only adding the nbsp; in the HTML to display the "code" box and the text in it.

Frankly, trying to space stuff evenly on these phpbb boards has always been strange.

 

[starl]

I'm viewing in firefox..
I did a select and view from Erik's original post
I had to manipulate it so you could see the nbsp's in the first line..

what are you viewing in?

 

[Von Pookie]

Firefox 1.5.3.

I didn't select anything. I'm just viewing the page source and looking at the code. What I posted above is what I'm seeing for that portion of Erik's post.

Edit: The HTML I posted does not have any nbsp in it anywhere--I didn't manipulate a thing.

 

[starl]

well - the board code *did* clean the nbsp when I posted it the way I actually see the source.

I'm in 1.5.0.3

let me check if it's still there...
yup, still there
Select the stuff, right-click, view selection source
I'll email it to you

 

[Von Pookie]

Ok--here's what Tracy's seeing:

ex1


<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: normal;">nbsp;nbsp;Anbsp;nbsp;Bnbsp;nbsp;</span>


ex2



<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: normal;">  A  B  </span>

(I removed the '&' so the nbsp will display above)

I'm not seeing that at all. That IS weird. Wait...maybe it could have something to do with a Greasemonkey script? That's the only thing I can think of that would cause the page's source code to appear differently. Hmm.

 

[Von Pookie]

Nope, not Greasemonkey. I disabled it then reloaded the page and looked at the code. I'm still seeing the same thing I did before.