HTML tag problem with story submission

[EmilyMiller]

Just worked for me in Vivaldi Mac (a Chrome branch) and didn't work in DuckDuckGo on MacOS. Tried a different machine, also MacOS. Broken on Vivaldi, Firefox, and DuckDuckGo.

Insane.

Maybe there should be a standard for such things, one that is not browser or OS-dependent. Oh wait…

 

[HelenL]

Just remember, the more complex your workaround, the more likely it will break in the future and you'll need to submit an edit.

I think this is about as simple as text centering can be, but it seems that it's no improvement anyway.

 

[designatedvictim]

It has NOT been fixed, but degraded to the point of not being predictable on any platform. I experience the bug (again) consistently now since the recent code deployment. Very frustrating.

I'd have to agree... somewhat.

The example I pointed out in The Other Thread seemed to be the same thing.

Here's a clip from the DOM for page 2 of my own story A Week of Sunrises which still fails to show the breaks for me, the same as the one I'd highlighted previously:



The highlighted line is the only example (visible here) where the data hook attribute is set and is an empty paragraph where the centered '* * * * *' I use for scene breaks should appear.

Below is the same segment of the DOM after the refresh of the page:



Extracted from Chrome desktop under Windows 11

One other piece of information that is possibly relevant is the I uploaded the original file as an MS Word docx file, which would need some folding and spindling before publishing, it is not HTML source pasted into the submission form text-area box.

This may be relevant as it generates:

<p align="center">* * * * *</p>

Not a

<div align="center">* * * * *</p>

Viewing the source reveals the tags (and double-quotes) being escaped for the scripting:

\x3Cp align=\"center\">* * * * *\x3C/p>\r\n\r\nMovie Night:

 

[pink_silk_glove]

I write my pieces with the tags right in them and copy/paste them into the box and I get missing bits too.

 

[designatedvictim]

I write my pieces with the tags right in them and copy/paste them into the box and I get missing bits too.

Well.. . that's an awfully good data point to have, but still awkward.