myOtaku problem

[Dan Rugh]

This is just a small problem, but I think it's important enough to post about.

Whenever I change something in my Profile, it will delete something else. For instance, I added in a few of my favorite anime and when I went back to "My Site", I found that it deleted the tag for a picture I had farther down in the profile. Another example is when I used to have something entered under "Quote". Anytime I would go into "Edit Profile", it would delete my entry.

Is there a bug in the programming that causes this?

[Desbreko]

[color=indigo]Are you putting your quote in quotation marks? If so, that'd be it. It was doing the same thing with me until I stopped using quotation marks.

Also, it seems like when you use HTML in stuff other than your introduction and Otaku Life posts, it'll sometimes cut the text short when you go back in to edit something. It does this to my Otaku Life post titles whenever I edit a post, and I end up having to type them out again.

I have no idea why these things happen, though. Probably just bugs in the code.[/color]

[Dan Rugh]

Thanks a lot, Desbreko, for the advice. :) The quote doesn't delete itself now that it is naked (no quotations).

On the other hand, I tried to do the image tag without quotations ([size=1][i] instead of [/i][/size]) and it doesn't work. I just left it out entirely.

[Desbreko]

[color=indigo]Well, you have to use quotation marks in HTML tags -- that's just the way HTML works. So yeah, if you want to use a color or image tag or something else that uses quotation marks in places other than your intro and posts, you'll have to replace it each time you want to edit something in that section.

If you really want to keep whatever it is, however, I suggest just making a text file with the entry for that section written out with the HTML. Then when you go into edit something, and it erases part of the entry, you can just copy and paste it back in instead of having to type it all out again.[/color]

[Petie]

[font=Verdana][color=blue]This is an old thread but I feel it may be important to just share this information. While you should use quotation marks in HTML, they are [i]not[/i] required for the tags to work. Using ... and ... will have the same result. So yes, you can use HTML in the menu bar but you can't use quotes in the tags.[/color][/font]

[Desbreko]

[color=#4B0082]Okay, so they aren't required for browsers to recognize the tags, but it's really sloppy coding to not use them. HTML is [i]supposed[/i] to require them.

But an easier way to get around this, I've found, is to simply use single quotes instead of double quotes. (Use ' instead of " in the tags.) Using single quotes is still proper HTML, but myOtaku won't mess with them.[/color]

[Petie]

[color=blue]Yes, it is very sloppy to not use quotes but they really aren't required. And single quotes, while they do work, may confuse things because in general, single quotes are for JavaScript and double quotes are for HTML. You can use either way and still get it to work though. Something important to note though - things will be messed up if you're using a value in the tag with a space in it and you don't use quotes. So in that case, single quotes are probably the best way to go.[/color]