PlusThirtyOne Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 So i just spent the last HOUR typing out a long post with lots of formatting, colors, text sizes and 84 freaking hotlinks. To make sure my time didn't run out as it usually does with online forums, i typed out and formatted the whole sha'bang in a private message to myself. After sending the post (several times) to myself, i got what i wanted. The formatting looks great and i was ready to post the thread to the boards as a new thread... ...except i can't seem to copy'n'paste text with formatting from my PM to a new thread post! Aaaaaugh!! Can anybody help me with this? These links took about 2 minutes to link up and i'd hate to do it aaaaaall over again... OH! -And how the heck do i post images from outside links? There's no button for it that i can see and HTML code doesn't seem to work for me either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willow Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 I'm not sure how to help with the first question, but to post images just go to 'Insert other media' (the little grey box in the corner of a new post) and go to 'Insert image from URL' 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vae Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 I have no idea about the formatting thing, because I've never carried the expectation that copying and pasting text from one post would transfer it to another. But you can insert images from outside links by: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlusThirtyOne Posted February 24, 2016 Author Share Posted February 24, 2016 K. One issue down, one more to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlusThirtyOne Posted February 24, 2016 Author Share Posted February 24, 2016 is there a way to view my formatted text in HTML code? if i could "translate" my post to HTML and back again, i could easily copy'n'paste everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlusThirtyOne Posted February 24, 2016 Author Share Posted February 24, 2016 Feels like a downgrade to me. *grumble grumble* What's strange is that if i try to 'paste' my post with the ctrl+right-click method, the text carries over with the formatting in the tiny paste window but as soon as i confirm the 'paste', it loses the formatting! Clipboard is saving the text properly formatted but won't 'paste' properly into the forum post window. it's like the options "Paste" and "Paste without formatting" do the same damn function! i also can't stand the automatic formatting in the message window where it hyphenates words at the border. That's NOT HOW WORDS WORK! Safari on my iphone can't seem to handle this forum either because it crashes cooooooonstantly. No more lurking the boards on the toilet for me. Oh well. Unless anyone can suggest anything i haven't tried, i might just have to re-link everything all over again... *grumble grumble* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlusThirtyOne Posted February 24, 2016 Author Share Posted February 24, 2016 The only reason i have this shitty thing is 'cuzz it was given to me. Chrome runs just as badly in ios. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlusThirtyOne Posted February 24, 2016 Author Share Posted February 24, 2016 Meh. i just took the 20 minutes to re-link everything and format the OP. Thread's up on here AND the old forum now. At least the FA forum let me paste rich text. :V LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaraphayx Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 This is the fate of all those who effortpost. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#00Buck Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 1 hour ago, Zaraphayx said: This is the fate of all those who effortpost. LOL @ tryhards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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