# Why aren't the tag makers working?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-the-tag-makers-working/419473>\
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**Created:** [September 17, 2007, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-the-tag-makers-working/419473 "2007-09-17T08:57:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-the-tag-makers-working/419473/1 "2007-09-17T08:57:58Z")

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By this, I mean that if I want to bold or italicize some text, and highlight it and go to hit the ‘B’ or ‘I’ or whatever to create the tags on the end, it isn’t working. I have to manually put in the [B] [/B] tags or whatever around the text I want to format. Also, when I tried to create a word-link, the box to input the text and URL wouldn’t come up. I had to manually format the URL=http://whatever.com tags myself. Every time I try to use one of the functions, I get returned to the top of the page and nothing else happens.

I hope I’ve made some sense.

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**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-the-tag-makers-working/419473/2 "2007-09-17T11:14:42Z")

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**It’s working for me.** Did you inadvertently switch from guided to enhanced mode? (Radio buttons are under the tag icons in the post window.)

GT

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**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-the-tag-makers-working/419473/3 "2007-09-17T13:38:43Z")

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Are you using a different browser or computer? Have you upgraded your browser or changed the settings recently?

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-the-tag-makers-working/419473/4 "2007-09-17T18:53:45Z")

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I think my browser (Firefox 2.0) is acting a little wonky. I probably need to close it and reopen it, but right now I have too many tabs open and can’t be bothered to wait for them all to load again. I did switch the SDMB tab to IE View and everything’s working fine. So I guess relaunching the browser ought to fix the problem and I’ll do that a little later.