# Can we have a WYSIWYG post window?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-a-wysiwyg-post-window/493395>\
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**Created:** [April 17, 2009, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-a-wysiwyg-post-window/493395 "2009-04-17T09:17:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-a-wysiwyg-post-window/493395/21 "2009-04-19T22:36:09Z")

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Now is the time **for all good men _to come to the aid of their country._**

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_**Holy [COLOR=red]Crap, this is awesome~![/COLOR]**_

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**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-a-wysiwyg-post-window/493395/22 "2009-04-19T22:38:01Z")

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> [@Ruby](#):
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> Now is the time **for all good men _to come to the aid of their country._**
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> _**Holy [COLOR=red]Crap, this is awesome~![/COLOR]**_

Hey cool, it works on both Quick Reply as well as Reply With Quote.🙂

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-a-wysiwyg-post-window/493395/23 "2009-04-19T22:43:47Z")

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Spoiler doesn’t show in WYSIWYG

Neither does [sub]sub[/sub] or [sup]sup[/sup]

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-a-wysiwyg-post-window/493395/24 "2009-04-19T23:00:06Z")

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> [@](#):
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> By the way, delete doesn’t show up on the toggle, though it still (obviously) shows up on preview.

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> Spoiler doesn’t show in WYSIWYG  
> Neither does sub or sup

Those are all custom tags the admins here have added-- The WYSIWYG editor presumably only works for the standard vB tags (it’d be a nightmare to try to make it work for every custom tag every administrator everywhere could come up with).

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