Smiley's breaks post?

[sidpost]

https://bushcraftuk.com/community/threads/banned-dogs-thoughts.164153/page-14#post-2052540

I could not post here. Initially, I thought my post was too long but the server error was vague at best.

Turns out, it doesn't like Smiley's. A more meaningful error message is needed. Also, is there a specific prohibition against using a Smiley?

 

[Broch]

I found it doesn't like cut-and-paste smileys. So, if you've written your post in Word, say, with smileys in and paste that into the thread it throws a wobbly. If you edit them out and add the ones available from the top of your post window (click the three vertical dots to get access) it should work.

For a basic smiling smiley just type : followed by )

I dare say the same problem may exist with smileys generated by some other editor as well.

So, yes you can use smileys!

 

[Pattree]

Indeed!
If you use the on board smilies all is well.

Well it is until you use the ones beyond the BcUk list. They fill the whole screen.

If I try to use the emoticons and smilies generated by my iPhone the server won’t take them and I get the Oops message and get put in a corner for thirty seconds.

I was trying to take screen shots to demonstrate where the BcUK smiles are hiding but the bar is greyed out to me at the moment. Dunno why.

 

[sidpost]

I selected the smiley from the header in the post box where the other options are for things like Bold, Italics, etc.

 

[Pattree]

Agreed. Smileys are of the menu for me right now

 

[nigelp]

 

[nigelp]

Mine work.

 

[sidpost]

Let's see if this works in this sub-forum ...

 

[Robbi]

 

[Pattree]

Well that’s fine for you!!!

Edit - I can put them up if I know the code but the tool bar is greyed out. The greyed bar works to the extent that I can drop the sub menu with smileys and tables etc but none of them are operating. I can’t link to text, format text or insert tables either.
I have just done a major iPhone update 17.1.1 - that probably upset a few things and there will be a queue of updates following while they work out the bugs.


(cut and pasted from @Robbi )

 

[Mesquite]

Edit - I can put them up if I know the code but the tool bar is greyed out.

 

[Pattree]

I’m sure that I wrote thanks for these codes but I can’t see where I said it.

So

Thanks very much for these codes. I shall keep them.

Do you know who created the BcUK set of emojies? I recognise the style from another site.

Again, my thanks.

 

[Tony]

We've used the right from the start (20 years), I think I bought them, or they were a free set that we used on vBulletin, every time we moved server, or software I re-uploaded them because they felt like home

 

[Pattree]

Glad you did