February 28, 2002

Fake tags trouble! I wanted to end my curling comment with a nice [/hissy fit]. (Replace the square brackets with angle brackets.) Each time I previewed it looked differently, and the actual post is ugly barfage. [more inside]

posted by qbert72 to bugs at 12:21 AM - 6 comments

First preview 

 ends up invisible (just like here). I suppose the angle brackets are not converted, so I replace them with the entity names 
</hissy fit>
. Preview is nice. I further edit my comment, hit preview again, and the ampersand in the entity names has been converted too, giving 
&lt;/hissy fit&gt;
. So, I take off the 
amp;
 and post. Ta da!

So, what's the proper way to insert fake code? I know I could just use square brackets and live happily ever after, but I like my things complicated, so please hope me!

  
 posted by qbert72 at 12:31 AM on February 28, 2002





  
<test> = &lt;test&gt;  hmm worked for me

  
 posted by riffola at 01:16 AM on February 28, 2002





  


Well it seems to work nicely here... I could have sworn my & turned into & between preview and post...

  
 posted by qbert72 at 02:04 AM on February 28, 2002





  
damn! I meant 
&
 turned into 
&amp;
This is getting really complicated...

  
 posted by qbert72 at 02:10 AM on February 28, 2002





  
qbert72: I can't reproduce the problem you had here or in the original post. So everything's swell, right?

  
 posted by kirkaracha at 07:48 PM on February 28, 2002





  
Well, I guess everything's swell, yes. I shall hope myself from now on. And go to bed earlier.

  
 posted by qbert72 at 10:00 PM on February 28, 2002





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