sigh All right, now I’m starting to suspect this is a Firefox problem, not a board problem. I just commented on a YouTube video, and it put an extra line between my paragraphs there.
None of my Firefox plugins have anything to do with text/editing.
I can test that. (No extra line return after this.)
On Firefox for Android (Extra line return after this.)
Test.
I can test that. (No extra line return after this.)
On Chrome for Android (Extra line return after this.)
Test.
I post from my Windows 10 PC, not from my phone.
Yep. Extra lines inserted on Firefox, not on Chrome. (I have the line issue with Firefox on Windows, don’t use Chrome on Windows.)
So, given that I’ve seen this with Firefox both here and on YouTube, but not on other sites and forums where I post frequently, I’m guessing that both vBulletin and whatever YouTube uses for comments have some quirk that, for whatever reason, Firefox doesn’t handle “correctly”. And it seems to be a recent development, as I’ve posted here since 2003, and had used Firefox as my primary browser for a while without seeing this issue (although, granted, that was on a Mac - I’ve only been a primary Windows user since March 2018).
Try this for me:
When you’re on a page on the Dope where you plan to enter text, open up the console by pressing Ctrl-Shift-K. Make sure you are on the Console tab, and type in the following, and press enter:
document.execCommand("insertBrOnReturn", false, true);
See if that stops from entering an extra line. This is mostly for my curiosity, and also maybe something I could add to my tweaking script.
As for a more practical workaround if you don’t use my script, you can also try pressing Shift-Enter when you want to only return one line. That usually works in most editors that give you two lines.
Okay, tried that. Let’s see what happens.
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The goggles, zey do nothink!
No change.