What is this jibberish that popped up in Word Pad upon replying to a thread.

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newreply[1]- Wordpad


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html dir="ltr" lang="en">
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<script type="text/javascript">
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<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/vbulletin_global.js"></script>
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	</td>

etc. etc.

Not so much to know for myself - more to confirm something’s not ‘broken’ on the server end.

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It’s the html coding for the reply page.

WordPad does not see coding, it just displays characters.

your humble TubaDiva
Administrator

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Looks like you did a view source by msitake. What browser do you use? There’s usually a keyboard shortcut that will do this.

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Use IE 6.0 - I don’t recall typing anything weird - I see it’s not a problem, so I won’t even attempt to duplicate it…Thanks

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Once, a long time ago, I posted a reply, looked normal on my “Reply to Thread” screen but when the page refreshed with my post at the bottom it was raw code like what you saw in WordPad. Weird.