When posting code on AskWoody, use the < pre > tag

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The topic’s come up again and, with the Windows Secrets merge imminent (tell me if you’ve heard that one before), we’re going to see more and more cod
[See the full post at: When posting code on AskWoody, use the < pre > tag]

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Noel Carboni has the full rundown here.

That link doesn’t seem to lead anywhere useful for this topic.

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Try it now. I think it’s fixed.

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Elly, woody, rc primak

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Yep, thanks.

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I couldn’t get it to work in the Visual editor.
This worked for me.
https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/word-365-macro-to-press-enter-repeatedly/#post-348619

cheers, Paul

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As the topic referred to mentions, the Visual Tab on the text editor does not have a Code function, and differs in the way it formats text:

Kirsty wrote:

“…the way a piece of code written or pasted to WordPress post editor is interpreted depends on whether you use visual or HTML post editor. Visual editor will consider the code to be an ordinary text … HTML editor does not convert any of these characters…”

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Elly

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I meant the <pre> tags.

cheers, Paul

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Sorry, I was trying to indicate that the similarities between the code and pre functions, and the differences between the Visual and Text editor tabs, were discussed in the original topic.

Using the Text tab gives a different result to the Visual tab, and removes the limitations in posting code. It is also less prone to html errors in posting.

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Elly

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In addition to the < pre > and < /pre >, @ geekdom has posted a list of usable bbcode that works on this forum for formatting posts–see here: Forum Alphabetical Order bbCode List

Noel Carboni wrote:
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Between < pre > and < /pre > tags (without spaces):

Read this quote carefully–there are *spaces* before and after the *pre* and the */pre*–that’s how those bbcodes show up in the post by Noel Carboni, and Woody’s blog post here. When actually using those bbcodes, the spaces should not be there in order for the code to have its intended effect! Woody did not emphasize this fact in his blog post above, so I’m pointing it out in Noel Carboni’s description. If those spaces are omitted, those bbcodes would be *invisible* once the reply is posted.

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