the post where I vent my frustration with LJ

[jennickels]

Why does the text editor have to be so temperamental?

First: I don't have spellcheck in the visual editor so I have to switch to HTML to check my spelling.

Second: Inserting a Spoiler Tag fucks everything up.

1. It makes anything that is centered move to the left. Sure, it's still centered relevant to the items (text is centered with photos for example), but it's lined up on the left under the spoiler tag. I managed to fix this by inserting <center> tags around the spoiler tags.


2. This ends up adding to one of the other problems, namely whenever you switch between HTML and the visual editor, LJ adds spaces before the spoiler cut. So if you go back and forth five times to change little things, there will be 5 extra lines before the cut. WTF is up with that? As I was trying to figure out what was wrong with some text, I kept having to delete extra lines. This even happens if you use the "edit" link after posting because it goes into HTML mode before switching to the visual editor.


3. Then there's the text issue I am having. Text after pictures gets It takes out all of the line breaks I put in. It looks fine in the visual editor, but when it's posted, half of the lines are squished together, while others are where they are supposed to be. The end of each of my picspam posts has 4 lines with alternate titles. They are on 4 separate lines until I post. Then line 1 and 2 are squished together with no space between the sentences, and line 3 and 4 are together with no space between, but it keeps the line break between 2 and 3. Huh? The only way I was able to fix this was to add an extra line break after lines 1 and 3. It looks stupid in the visual editor, but fine when it posts. This only happens after I put in spoiler tags. Before that it looked fine.


4. EDITED TO ADD TO #3: Apparently, it's not the spoiler tags? I don't know, because I've had issues with them on my stories, but the text problem I have is also showing up under photos with in spoiler cuts that aren't at the end. I'm not sure which thing is causing it, and not in the mood to figure it out. The text under one photo at the beginning did the lost line break thing. I added a photo and text after the cut--it looked fine. Put it behind a cut--looked fine. Bolded/colored it like the screwed up text--looked fine under the jumbled text of the first picture, but was jumbled after the last picture. I just don't even... It's so annoying.

Does this shit happen to anyone else? It happens at the end of my stories I post, making the last paragraph almost impossible to read, but I forget about so don't notice for days or weeks or whatever (I should probably go back and check older stories).

Comments

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

I only ever use html.

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

I'm too lazy to put in all the coding to use HTML all of the time.

I just with LJ would fix their shit, but we all know that will never happen.

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

Have you put in a support request? They might do something if enough people complain. *shrug*

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

I don't know--seems like too much work when they rarely listen to people. It's been like this for over a year now.

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

You could just copy & paste your post, send that in?
Personally, any requests I've sent in have been answered, so.... maybe worth a shot, even if you don't expect anything out of it.