Web site rendering has gone strange.
I suspect this is all my fault, but can anyone tell me how to get this text box back to the center of the screen so that I can see what I’m typing? (Image below. I am using MS Edge.) My apologies if I’ve posted this in the wrong place – I didn’t see an obvious internal-tech thread category. Thank you!
You might just need to zoom out. Let us know if that fixes it.
I have the same issue on Firefox desktop. No zoom in, default scale. Very annoying.
You need to first zoom out to less than 100%, or fullscreen the edit box from its top-right button that looks like two arrows pointing away from eachother, and then turn off the “new rich text editor” by toggling the control at the top left, next to the Bold text formatting button. Then you can resize the edit box or re-zoom the page to normal.
I think it remembers the setting as long as you don’t clear cookies, because I’d already forgotten the problem existed until you mentioned it. (For me it happened in the Chromium-based Vivaldi browser, so it looks like all ‘the majors’ are affected.)
This is either a bug or a planned change. I discussed this with @taronlissimore and @pennstac in the Lounge two weeks ago.
@taronlissimore said it may be a Discourse update issue, and sent them a message. I’m guessing they standardized on a single data entry process for phone, tablet, and PC and perhaps didn’t test the PC method very well.
My work-around is to copy all the quotes at the start, and then go full screen. It’s awkward, but it works.
Thanks a ton! This worked. I suppose if I want to use a rich text editor I can always go full screen. Interesting glitch.
Yes, that’s what I was doing temporarily as well. It works. Thank you.
The hybrid approach, which isn’t terrible, is to turn off the rich text editor as suggested above, and then if you want to use it, go back to full screen.
Zoom out below 100% does indeed work, thank you.
Same thing happending with Chrome. Annoying.
A solution is to reduce the size of the window to 75 percent in the Chrome settings menu. But that’s a unnecessary pain to change every time you want to visit here.
When using my iPad in landscape mode the reply box is partially hidden and to the left of the screen rendering it unable to be used unless I turn my iPad to vertical, and attempting to use the Apple Pencil has issues as well
