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Author: Chris P
Date: 2014-01-07 11:24
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I don't know what's happened but recently whenever I type any reply in the box, it scrolls across instead of jumping down to the next line, so all paragraphs are in single lines which makes reading what I've just typed impossible and editing an absolute nightmare.
Is this something everyone else is experiencing or is it something specific to Internet Explorer? It only started after some upgrade something-or-other took place and I don't know how to put things back to how they were.
See attachment of how things appear to me and if you know a way of stopping this so I can see each paragraph as a paragraph instead of a single line of text, then that would make posting replies on here more enjoyable.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2014-01-07 11:33
Did you recently update from Explorer 10 (or older) to Explorer 11 and do you use Explorer 11 when this happens? If that's the case, you can "downgrade" easily to Explorer 10 because 11 is intalled as an update.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2014-01-07 11:38
How do I do that? I don't even know which version of IE I'm using!
I tried Firefox but it was painfully slow, so I went back to IE(whichever version) and things were better, until one day when I got an upgrade message and things haven't been right on here since.
Just checked and it's IE11 - I've just unticked the automatic updates box.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
Post Edited (2014-01-07 06:40)
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2014-01-07 14:02
If what Ben suggested doesn't work post back and I can explain how to remove the 11 update.
BTW 11 also has some issues with Facebook, such as not letting you upload multiple photos at once.
Post Edited (2014-01-07 14:02)
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2014-01-07 14:49
> If what Ben suggested doesn't work (...)
It does - at least on my IE11. :-)
If this is a generic (and not just Chris') problem, Mark might want to add
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9; />
to the header of the web site.
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Ben
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2014-01-07 16:00
"Click on "Tools / Compatibility View Settings", then add "woodwind.org" to the list, voilà."
Sorted! Thanks for that Ben!
I haven't had any problems posting multiple photos on Facebook, but this is the only forum that was affected.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
Post Edited (2014-01-07 19:05)
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2014-01-07 19:40
Looks like it's gone back to the single line/scrolling thing again. It's doing it as I'm typing this.
I just went back to edit a post and gave up having to scroll across to the bit I wanted.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2014-01-07 20:01
Check if the website is still in the compatibility view list where you added it before. Is it still there?
Did it go back when you closed and restarted IE?
Or maybe something was changed to the website (what Ben suggested?) so you need to do this again?
BTW you say you have no problem uploading mutiple photos at once using Facebook. Can you check that by clicking Add Photo/Video (next to Update Status), then click Create Photo Album and see if you get a browser window to choose photos, or if instead it takes you to a new page where you browse to upload each photo (I think a list of five at the same time)?
I haven't found a reason to use IE11 so far so I changed back to IE10 (there are certain things that IE is just too comfortable in comparison with other browsers so I use it). If you want to change back to IE10, what OS do you have?
Re getting a Mac, most others I know use Macs and I won't even start writing the many problems they have...
Post Edited (2014-01-07 20:03)
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2014-01-07 20:08
I'm using Windows 7 - I checked the compatibility list and woodwind.org is still [ENTER]
listed there. I've removed and added it several times and still getting this same [ENTER]
problem. Hence me hitting the Enter key when I get to the end of each line so [ENTER]
it drops down to start the next line.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2014-01-07 20:13
A pain in the a**e!
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2014-01-07 20:19
You're probably not the only one employing rustic language when the subject turns to Microsoft's Internet Thingy.
I've spent more than hours and weeks hunting down web site compatibility issues. And every new version brings many new, cough, features. ![[mad]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie9.gif)
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Ben
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2014-01-07 15:24
tictactux wrote:
> (The proposed solution is to add "white-space:pre-wrap" to the
> textarea's style.)
Thanks! That did it.
I don't use IE normally and didn't see the new ... ah ... feature of IE 11.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2014-01-07 20:25
I don't get on particularly well with computers at the best of times, but something [ENTER]
like this really gets my goat as I can't simply take a screwdriver to it to set it right.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: john4256
Date: 2014-01-07 15:38
I haven't used IE for years. More trouble than its worth. I use Firefox as my browser and it works fine for me.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2014-01-07 20:48
I aged waiting for Firefox to complete a simple task - I put up with it for a month [ENTER]
and had enough, so went back to IE9, then I got updated/upgraded one day and [ENTER]
that's when things all started playing up. I really don't have the patience when it [ENTER]
comes to computer problems.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2014-01-07 16:03
I use Firefox and Opera sometmes but IE has a few features that make some things really annoying in other browsers.
Mark posted above that "That did it!", so do you still have the problem (since your later posts seems to show you do)?
To remove the IE11 upade in Windows 7 do this:
1. Click the Windows icon at the bottom left corner of the screen and click "Control Panel" (or get to the Control Panel whatever other way you prefer)
2. Click "Uninstall a program" right under the "Programs" title or click "Programs" (the bigger title itself)
3. If you did the latter in (2) then under "Programs and Features" at the top click "Uninstall a program"
4. Then click "View installed updates" from the left side menu
5. At the top right corner where it says "Search Installed Updates" type "explorer" (without the quotes)
6. Click on the Explorer 11 update and it will ask you if you want to remove it and choose yes
Supposed to work...
I found no advantage with IE11 so far so I don't see a reason to use it yet.
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2014-01-07 21:14
(attention: the stylesheet is only reloaded upon a complete refresh AKA pressing Ctrl-F5 which overrides everything that might otherwise be cached)
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Ben
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Author: gkern
Date: 2014-01-08 08:14
Try Google Chrome - I quit using Firefox some time ago...
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