How do I terminate formatting?

[BustedKnuckles]

Before we start, note that I have already tried the "remove formatting" button in the advanced editor in multiple configurations and would not be asking this question had the button worked in any of them.

I made a post (in the windshield wiper blade thread) in which I constructed a text link to a URL...typed the text, highlighted it, opened the "link" button, implanted the URL and clicked out. The link works.

I wanted to enter more such text links into the same post. I began by positioning the cursor at the end of the first text and hitting "enter" twice to create a new paragraph. But the cursor remained red indicating that it was continuing with the formatting for the previous text link. Typing a few characters confirmed that it was continuing. Not what I wanted.

I positioned the cursor again and click the "remove formatting" button. Hitting "enter" twice as before only proved that the formatting had not been removed.

Cursor back to home base, hit "enter" twice and THEN clicked "remove formatting". Again, it remained.

No matter how many time I hit enter or how many times I clicked to remove the formatting, the cursor and the text that followed it while typing remained part of the first text link I created in the post.

Finally, I just began a new post because I couldn't think of any other way to get away from the formatting.

How is formatting terminated in situations like this so one can continue with plain text after creating a text link??

 

[BustedKnuckles]

Must be something in the Firefox browser as it seems normal in IE11 and Comodo Dragon.

Not using another browser, though, just for the sake of a few line of recalcitrant code. I'll just make additional posts.

 

[Basil]

You might try making the original post up to the point you want to add links, then save. Then edit and try adding them that way. Maybe hit space a few times before hitting return (to get the cursor away from the formatting from the previous link/text.

No idea if that will help, but thought I'd toss it out there.

 

[NutmegCT]

Not sure I'm understanding all this, but "remove formatting" only applies to the area you've "highlighted" (selected). If nothing's highlighted, and you "remove formatting", nothing changes. But if something is highlighted - even accidentally like a blank space - that area will change.

Tom

 

[BustedKnuckles]

Not sure I'm understanding all this, but "remove formatting" only applies to the area you've "highlighted" (selected).

Simply...once I create either a text or URL link in a post by using the "link" button in the text editor, I cannot turn the link coding off with spaces or "enters". Everything typed after the hot link just becomes part of the hot link.

I didn't realize that, so in this case it wouldn't be an issue because there is nothing to highlight.

 

[NutmegCT]

Can you post a screen print of what you're trying to do?

I don't think you can "turn off" an embedded link just by repeatedly hitting <space> or <enter>. I think you have to move the pointer (cursor) out of the link, and "right click" it, first.

Give that a try.

 

[BustedKnuckles]

Can you post a screen print of what you're trying to do?

I don't think you can "turn off" an embedded link just by repeatedly hitting <space> or <enter>. I think you have to move the pointer (cursor) out of the link, and "right click" it, first.

Referring to the "Windshield Wiper Blades" thread elsewhere in the Pub, note that the last 2 posts are mine; they are separate because I could not find a way to do what you suggest above (i.e.) "...move the pointer out of the link." "Spacing" and "entering" are the 2 ways I would move the cursor to end the creation of an embed within the edit box but neither method does that; "tabbing" moves it out of "edit" altogether.

After I made the 1st post, I found more info and wanted to add it (and another hot link) to my 1st posting so it would have been a single, two-line post appearing like this:

I discovered that, possibly because of a browser incompatibility with the forum coding, it couldn't create the post I wanted as I couldn't end the active link coding in either post once I had initiated it. I tried using both my posts but testing "space" in one and "enter" in the other:

The only option I was left was to create a second post for the second piece of information I wanted to offer. I'll have to remember from now on that I can't put more than one hot link in a post on this board using Firefox because I can't end the first to create the second.