[Forum] Typing issues

[VahnRPG]

I've noticed this for a while, but it's come to a head recently. When I mistype something and hit backspace, sometimes the behavior is inconsistent. Sometimes it will delete a single character, sometimes multiple (usually up to a space), sometimes entire words, usually entire lines if I hit it multiple times. Yet, if I somehow get a blank line in text that I want to remove (such as the end of this post), no amount of backspace will actually remove it unless I add garbage to it, and even then it's not always consistent

I'm not sure if this is a bug or intended "feature," but it's incredibly inconsistent and unbearably unhelpful.
If it's somehow an intended feature, is there a flag to turn it off? Or can one be added to disable it? This is the only forum I've ever encountered that has this kindof inconsistent typing behavior, and it sucks.

Apologies if this has been asked before, I was having trouble doing a search for it.

 

[Angry_Panda]

Have noticed this as well, though it's usually when using Chrome on my phone - my most frequent issue is that the letter at the beginning of the word I'm editing gets duplicated (so 'this is a mitskae' would become 'this is a mmi' when I backspace back to where I want to be). Sometimes I also do get 'stuck' in between a couple of characters, or more often between an image and something else, or two smilies.

Try enabling BBcode when you have this problem (the pair of square brackets in the upper right of the message entry window) - this will show the raw code for what you're entering, and is easier to navigate without getting 'hung up'. This isn't a fix, exactly, but should at least let you work around it for the moment.

 

[Painasbread]

I have never encountered this issue, like never, and it's not like I'm only typing one sentence per month on here.
I'm using chrome on pc, I don't use forums on my phone.

 

[VahnRPG]

I have never encountered this issue, like never, and it's not like I'm only typing one sentence per month on here.
I'm using chrome on pc, I don't use forums on my phone.

I'm happy for you!
I, on the other hand, have encountered it ever since I started posting on this forum, on whatever device I use. Chrome then Brave on PC, firefox on my phone, whatever, but it only happens on here. I literally wrote a 115,000 novel on google driveand never once had an issue like this. I program for a living using a variety of IDEs, never encountered anything like it. Only on this forum. It's bizarre. I'm sure if I really had to I could set up a video to record me typing a message. As it is, I'm having to be extremely careful as in the typing of this message I've already joined a few words because of it and I don't want to inadvertantly delete the entire post, as I'vedone several times in the past.
I've gone ahead and left the words in this post where this happened as a minor example, though obviously this is difficult to tell thanks to typos in general, but I hope you can understand through the length of this post that I'm not one to post 'lol' in the forums and go on with my day, if that's what you're implying.

 

[RogueKitsune]

Avoid using "shift+enter" to do new lines.
I have found that (at least on desktop Firefox) when I use that to do new lines instead of just "enter" I get the described issue. I haven't encountered this on mobile though (Firefox for Android)

 

[VahnRPG]

Avoid using "shift+enter" to do new lines.
I have found that (at least on desktop Firefox) when I use that to do new lines instead of just "enter" I get the described issue. I haven't encountered this on mobile though (Firefox for Android)

I don't think I've ever done that before in my life? At least not intentionally. Do people actually do that? I can't imagine why , but I'm fairly certain I don't. Fun fact, while editing the previous sentence I hit backspace a couple times and it deleted everything up to your reply, and as you may note I haven't hit 'enter' once this post :/ course, now I'm second guessing myself. when i hit the 'reply' button, did it already have a newline, or did I add that one...grr...

 

[solstice258]

I was trying out the shift+enter thing but accidentally pressed ctrl+enter which apparently posts the reply.
Whoops.
I've never encountered this issue though

 

[kouyo]

This is probably related to this bug
https://forums.mangadex.org/threads...ng-when-selecting-a-full-single-line.1069683/

To my understanding this and the other one have been a thing on the forums since they were released on v5 and I kinda just got used to it.

 

[kouyo]

I just noticed the images on my bug report are gone. Doing CTRL + C would select all lines up in a similar behaviour to this

Sometimes it will delete a single character, sometimes multiple (usually up to a space), sometimes entire words, usually entire lines if I hit it multiple times.

Hence why I think these issues could be related. Oddly enough it doesn't seem to happen in a Chromium browser anymore and only seems to happen in Firefox after retesting it. Multiple updates to Xenforo happened between my bug report until today, so I wonder if this could be another Xenforo bug...

 

[Roler]

XenForo uses Froala since version 2.0

XenForo 2.2 comes with Froala V3, while 2.3 comes with V4 (as far as I could find)

Can you find if any reported issues in https://github.com/froala/wysiwyg-editor/issues relate to you?

Is your issue something like https://github.com/froala/wysiwyg-editor/issues/4700 and https://github.com/froala/wysiwyg-editor/issues/4905 ?

And can you try to reproduce it on https://froala.com/wysiwyg-editor/examples/full-featured/#fiddle ?

(I personally can't, that's why I'm asking)

 

[kouyo]

Hi, I forgot to update the thread with my findings.
I found the whole Froala thing after investigating the issue and asked the devs about it. It is possible that our installation of Xenforo is outdated and this problem can be fixed by updating Xenforo.

No promises though, I will post an update as soon as I have information to share.
fyi: our current installation is running Froala v4

 

[VahnRPG]

XenForo uses Froala since version 2.0

XenForo 2.2 comes with Froala V3, while 2.3 comes with V4 (as far as I could find)

Can you find if any reported issues in https://github.com/froala/wysiwyg-editor/issues relate to you?

Is your issue something like https://github.com/froala/wysiwyg-editor/issues/4700 and https://github.com/froala/wysiwyg-editor/issues/4905 ?

And can you try to reproduce it on https://froala.com/wysiwyg-editor/examples/full-featured/#fiddle ?

(I personally can't, that's why I'm asking)

Assuming this is directed to me? Or is it to kouyo?

https://github.com/froala/wysiwyg-editor/issues/4848 seems like it relates to my issue with empty lines not being removable.
The other two tickets sound like it, but I wasn't able to use their jsfiddle because

• "[Line 11] Uncaught ReferenceError: FroalaEditor is not defined"

So, no, I don't seem to be able to reproduce it either, lol

 

[Roler]

Assuming this is directed to me? Or is it to kouyo?

https://github.com/froala/wysiwyg-editor/issues/4848 seems like it relates to my issue with empty lines not being removable.
The other two tickets sound like it, but I wasn't able to use their jsfiddle because

• "[Line 11] Uncaught ReferenceError: FroalaEditor is not defined"

So, no, I don't seem to be able to reproduce it either, lol

Do you have any browser extensions installed or strict privacy/security settings enabled?

Actually, try using https://froala.com/wysiwyg-editor/demo

 

[VahnRPG]

Do you have any browser extensions installed or strict privacy/security settings enabled?

Actually, try using https://froala.com/wysiwyg-editor/demo

I have a few, including adblock and ublock, but disabling them didn't change anything.
I tried that editor in classic mode and started hitting backspace on the line that ends with emojis. I could hit backspace on the emojis, but it just moved the cursor over a little. So I put it before 'applications' in that line and started hitting backspace. I got all the way to 'text editting' before no amount of backspaceeffected anything. Once I highlighted 'editting' and part of 'applications' then it let me backspace again. After that, it was inconsistent but not much better.

I dont' have capture software setup at the moment to provide a better demo :/

If it helps any, this is from the Inspect after playing around with the demo:

<p style="text-align:left;line-height:2;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><span style="color:#454545;">Froala Editor is a lightweight WYSIWYG HTML</span></span><span style="font-size:18px;"><span style="color:#454545;"> </span></span><span style="font-size:18px;"><span style="color:#454545;"></span><span style="color:#454545;"></span><span style="color:#454545;"></span></span><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#454545;"><br></span></span></p>

 

[Roler]

Well I'm not sure if any current XenForo update would fix your issues, however, the upcoming XenForo 2.4 will replace Froala with Tiptap.

 

[VahnRPG]

Well, yay, I guess?

Obviously I have no insights into running this forum, just as a dev it just seems weird to me in 2025wysiwyg aren't solved problems :/
I guess I'll just try and deal with it until whenever that's implemented, though it'sprobably likely i won't notice it if/when it happens?