Bug Cancel Button Missing in Edit - More Options

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The "CANCEL" button is missing in the Edit - More Options feature, leaving users to close the tab or window to abort edits. Users can delete a post shortly after posting, but not after a significant delay. The only available buttons during editing are "SAVE CHANGES," "UPLOAD," and "PREVIEW." To exit without saving, users can click the browser's back button or the PF logo. Until "Save changes" is clicked, no edits will be saved.
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In Edit - More Options, the "CANCEL" button is absent. Is closing the tab/window the only way to abort?
 
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yes but you can also delete a post (for some small amount of time after posting it --- you can't come back the next day, for example, and delete it)
 
Just don't hit "post reply" and nothing happens.
 
There is no "post reply." The available buttons are "SAVE CHANGES", "UPLOAD", "PREVIEW."
 
Simply click on the "back" button your browser, or click on the PF logo on the top left to leave the page. Until and unless you hit "Save changes", nothing will be saved in your post.
 
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Ah, you mean when editing a post and going to the full editor instead of the direct editing. I rarely use that. In that case: Go back in the browser.
 
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