How to post longer replies without the Post button sliding off the page or editing?

tom61sto

How do you to post longer replies without the Post button sliding off the page or editing? In Firefox for me at least, the text window will expand as you have more text it than the starting box will hold, causing the 'Post' button to slide off the bottom of the page, rendering it unclickable as the scroll bar/wheel won't go any farther down. Editing expands the box for some reason, but might require multiple edits to work. However, I'm seeing some people post far larger posts than I can without edits showing, so is this under a different browser, or running some sort of extension?

rattler2

Hit tab until it highlights the buttons. Unfortunately the trade off is that it pushes some stuff up under the top of the forums.

Its not ideal... but it works.

rattler2

phubbykun wrote: »

This is what happens when the cheapest option (in this case, forum provider) is used.

Except that its only come up this year. We've never had this problem in the past on these forums. The last problem we had was posts being eaten sometimes when you edit them.
Not saying they're perfect... but this is only a recent issue that came up.

tom61sto

rattler2 wrote: »

Hit tab until it highlights the buttons. Unfortunately the trade off is that it pushes some stuff up under the top of the forums.

Its not ideal... but it works.

Cool, trying that.
Four tabs it seems like.
Thanks.

fleetcaptain5

Better solution:

Place the cursor after your message. Hit enter multiple times, thus adding like ten additional lines to your post. Backspace to remove the additional lines.


(Had no one figured this out yet?)

tom61sto

fleetcaptain5#1134 wrote: »

Better solution:

Place the cursor after your message. Hit enter multiple times, thus adding like ten additional lines to your post. Backspace to remove the additional lines.


(Had no one figured this out yet?)

Huh. That previously did not work, unless it's only Enter that can do it and not regular text. When this started I tried cutting the extra text, which made the buttons come back, but re-pasting made the buttons disappear again. Also, I did try enter and backspacing a few times too, just not 10 times.

fleetcaptain5

tom61sto wrote: »

fleetcaptain5#1134 wrote: »

Better solution:

Place the cursor after your message. Hit enter multiple times, thus adding like ten additional lines to your post. Backspace to remove the additional lines.


(Had no one figured this out yet?)

Huh. That previously did not work, unless it's only Enter that can do it and not regular text. When this started I tried cutting the extra text, which made the buttons come back, but re-pasting made the buttons disappear again.

Copying and pasting text seems to suffer from bugs as well, so I've avoided doing that as much as possible.

For me, pressing Enter at the end of your post a few times and then removing the extra lines, works perfectly. (Just counted, hitting it 4 times is enough actually.)

ltminns

I do all my posting on mobile, so Tabs are not a thing.

sthe91

fleetcaptain5#1134 wrote: »

tom61sto wrote: »

fleetcaptain5#1134 wrote: »

Better solution:

Place the cursor after your message. Hit enter multiple times, thus adding like ten additional lines to your post. Backspace to remove the additional lines.


(Had no one figured this out yet?)

Huh. That previously did not work, unless it's only Enter that can do it and not regular text. When this started I tried cutting the extra text, which made the buttons come back, but re-pasting made the buttons disappear again.

Copying and pasting text seems to suffer from bugs as well, so I've avoided doing that as much as possible.

For me, pressing Enter at the end of your post a few times and then removing the extra lines, works perfectly. (Just counted, hitting it 4 times is enough actually.)

Not only that but you are not able to copy and paste in the Arc client. You have to do it through an Internet browser.