Misleading preview when entering comments
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When entering a comment to a blog, a preview of how the comment will look is displayed on the web page. The comment being entered needed a table to make the comment more understandable. The html table tags showed up in the preview as a correctly formatted table. When the comment was completed and then submitted, all the table tags were gone and the table contents squashed together making the table information confusing.
How about one or more of the following solutions:
– Comment preview that really shows what the submitted comment will look like AND
– a list of tags that are allowed in comments
– comment examples that show formatting -
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Humm…the comment is to a time.com blog and the link is
http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2010/08/06/the-sideways-economy/#comments I could not put it in the heading for this support question.To enter a comment, I had to log in. When starting to enter a comment, a “Preview” will be displayed and show what was entered as it is being entered. The html table command is recognized as is the tr and td and the resulting table is displayed nicely in the “Preview” section. When the Submit button is clicked, the comment is re-displayed without the formatting of the table commands.
Also, there seems to be no way for me to change/update my comment so that I could clean it up and make it look presentable.The time.com site does not seem to have its own help section and the various links led me to wordpress.com. Your comment section has a nice guide as to what markups are allowed. Nice and very helpful.
If table is not allowed, can fixed font be a choice???
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That site is on the VIP program here, which means that you will have to talk with them about the issue since on the VIP program, they are pretty much in control of all that stuff.
In general though, I’ve never seen a blog platform that allowed tables in the comments, so I’m not surprised the HTML for them was stripped. Also, comments aren’t filtered for unacceptable code until you click the submit button.
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When I was looking for the time.com “Support”, “Help”, “Contact” links, I ended up here at wordpress. It seems that wordpress hosts and provides the support for their blogs.
So how do I get to talk with time.com?
I’ve also never seen a blog that allowed an HTML table in its comments. There was hopes for this one because it had a “Preview” function that allowed HTML tables to be displayed correctly and no link/support/help that indicated what was allowed/dis-allowed.
This blog comment input does indicate what markups are allowed. Nice.
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Jim, with a VIP blog, Time has complete control over what themes they use, what plugins they use (the preview function is a plugin) and over what they decide to include and not include on the blog. WordPress.COM takes care of all the backend side of wordpress and all the server maintenance and such.
I’ve tagged this post so that hopefully staff will see it and respond, but they have any control over what Time decides to include or not include in the themes. Time decided not to show allowable markup for the comments.
Even with normal blogs here, if my theme showed allowed markup, and I wanted to remove that, I could get the CSS upgrade and poof, it would be gone.
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