General Discussion (Model Railroader)

Does anyone else have this problem? When I'm composing a post, hitting the enter key produces a blank line so that I can indicate a new paragraph. However, when I post it to the forum, there is no blank line. What started after the blank line in the composing window is now right after the previous sentence with no blank line. Hitting the enter key used to make a blank line. This just started rather recently.

What browser are you using? Did you recently upgrade?

I'm using Google Chrome right now, if I don't manually add the HTML code, it will just throw it all into a block like your saying. Usually I fire up Internet Explorer when I need to post something. That way everything formats correctly for me.

 I've never had that problem with Internet Explorer or Mozilla FireFox, but if you are composing your message off-line and then uploading it, your browser is probably stripping out some of the code as the message is reformatted to fit the forum's screen width.

 

I had that problem when I was using Safari. Apparently Mac's Safari doesn't play well with the fourms. I also couldn't use the quote button or use smilies either. I just downloaded Firefox and haven't had any of those problems.

Bob, I'm afraid it is related to your browser.  I used IE7 until a few weeks ago, now IE8, and both allow me to do what you had expected to do.

-Crandell

The browser I usually use is Opera, and this site doesn't like Opera. It used to, in the olden days, but not now. Right now, I'm using Opera. If I hit the enter/return (like right now) it won't work (I just did it twice).

BUT, if I put in "p" and "/p" each surrounded by those little arrowheads (), it does. See, I just did it. Yup, it's a pain down there, but it's an option.

Ed

In the previous message, I tried putting the keyboard arrowheads (as examples) between the empty parentheses, but no go. Anyway, they're just above the comma and period. You will have a total of 7 keyboard characters showing in a row.

Wow, it's almost like I'm trying to suggest naughty words in a family paper (yes, I know it's the coding). Still feels weird in the non-HTML world, though.

Ed

There's another trick to try, at least with IE7.  Hold down the SHIFT key while hitting ENTER twice.  This should give you a line break.  For example, if I just hit ENTER, I get a line break like this:

See the empty line above?  But if I hold down SHIFT when I hit ENTER, I get this:
See the lack of that empty line?  It gives me a carriage return without the empty line.

Let me put it this way, I type my sig is as follows...

Paul A. Cutler III (SHIFT-ENTER)
******************* (SHIFT-ENTER)
Weather Or No Go New Haven (SHIFT-ENTER)
*******************

If I didn't use SHIFT, it would look like this:

Paul A. Cutler III (ENTER)

******************* (ENTER)

Weather Or No Go New Haven (ENTER)

********************

Looks silly, doesn't it?

Paul A. Cutler III
*******************
Weather Or No Go New Haven
*******************

Thanks to all who replied. I guess the problem is in my browser. It never occurred to me that it started around the time I switched to Opera. Duhh! Sounds like bad news all around. Bad news #1--Opera doesn't play nice with the forum. Actually, this is the only problem I've encountered other than trying to insert a smiley into this message which didn't work. I do like Opera better than IE though. It's faster and I like its appearance and functions better. Oh well, that won't matter much longer because I'm about to get into problem #2. I'll be getting an Apple iMac in a couple of weeks and apparently its browser doesn't play nice with this forum either. Well, I'll just have to wait and see what problems it brings. Thanks again to all who posted answers. Your warnings about Opera and Apple were very valuable.

Paul3:

There's another trick to try, at least with IE7.  Hold down the SHIFT key while hitting ENTER twice.  This should give you a line break.  For example, if I just hit ENTER, I get a line break like this:

See the empty line above?  But if I hold down SHIFT when I hit ENTER, I get this:
See the lack of that empty line?  It gives me a carriage return without the empty line.

Apparently this happened to me one time and I wound up scratching my head. When I reached over to turn off the caps lock  I must have hit the shift key instead!

Bob, I run and Imac, and I love it. Safari doesn't like the forums, but Firefox does. It only takes a few short minutes to download it and install it. 

jguess733:

Bob, I run and Imac, and I love it. Safari doesn't like the forums, but Firefox does. It only takes a few short minutes to download it and install it. 

I also have an iMac (at home) and have the same problem as everyone else.  I contacted Kalmbach and they, too, suggested switching my browser to Firefox.  I have not done so yet, but apparently that is the recommended fix.

John Timm 

 

jguess733:

Bob, I run and Imac, and I love it. Safari doesn't like the forums, but Firefox does. It only takes a few short minutes to download it and install it. 

The salesperson at the computer store suggested that if I didn't like Safari I could install Firefox. She said that was what she had done on her computer. It's something to keep in mind. I'm looking forward to getting the iMac. A friend who recently got one (he's a long-time Mac user) showed me what his machine can do and it blew my mind. My daughter recently got a Mac too and the two of them talked me into getting one since I was ready to replace my old PC anyway.

This has come up before, posted originally by someone else, and then repeated by me.

On a Mac using Safari, you can get a Carriage Return by typing a left chevron,P,right chevron (without spaces). Doing so twice will get you an extra blank line.

It's pretty easy to get used to; otherwise I have no trouble using the MR forums with my Mac.

Otoh, on some other forums, it doesn't pick up in-line photos, and that's a hassle.

- Gerhard

Well, here I am at my Mac. Let's see if it'll do a paragraph. Two clicks of "return"--the message field shows some empty space between this line and the previous. Two more "returns", Ed