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japple

(10,333 posts) Sat May 30, 2020, 01:00 PM May 2020

Why are the little boxes that contain the command keys (such as Bold, Italics, smilies)

blank? I use Google Chrome on my home PC.

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Why are the little boxes that contain the command keys (such as Bold, Italics, smilies) (Original Post) japple May 2020 OP

Not sure what you mean. Here's what I get: same as always CurtEastPoint May 2020 #1

I get the same thing - no problems here on my PC ramblin_dave May 2020 #2

You mean on DU? I use Chrome on my home PC ... they're not blank for me ... mr_lebowski May 2020 #3

Markup filter may have been inadvertantly disabled kurtcagle May 2020 #4

CurtEastPoint

(19,186 posts)

1. Not sure what you mean. Here's what I get: same as always

Reply to japple (Original post)

Sat May 30, 2020, 01:02 PM

May 2020

and I'm Win 10 and Chrome, also.

ramblin_dave

(1,556 posts)

2. I get the same thing - no problems here on my PC

Reply to CurtEastPoint (Reply #1)

Sat May 30, 2020, 01:05 PM

May 2020

Windows 10 by the way.

Sometimes stuff like this will clear up if you clear Chrome history...

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)

3. You mean on DU? I use Chrome on my home PC ... they're not blank for me ...

Reply to japple (Original post)

Sat May 30, 2020, 01:06 PM

May 2020

kurtcagle

(2,321 posts)

4. Markup filter may have been inadvertantly disabled

Reply to japple (Original post)

Sat May 30, 2020, 01:35 PM

May 2020

When you submit a message, there's a filter that reads it and replaces bracketed expressions with the corresponding HTML tags (or more often CSS) before passing this back to the browser for display. Sometimes, such as during debugs, a programmer may turn this off so that this particular filter doesn't get invoked as part of a pipeline, and then may inadvertently forget to turn it back on again.

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