Fixing Post Editing Issues

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Users are experiencing difficulties with editing and saving changes to posts, often requiring them to use the advanced editing option, which sometimes fails. Issues arise particularly with LaTeX formatting, where changes do not appear correctly until the page is refreshed. Editing is restricted to a 24-hour window after the original post, complicating the process further. Some users have noted that browser behavior, such as caching, may affect the display of edits, leading to confusion. Overall, the need for a more intuitive refresh mechanism after saving edits is highlighted as a significant concern.
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I am having serious problems editing and saving changes to posts after I initially submit. Sometimes I need to go to advanced and then save changes and sometimes even that does not work. Sometimes things show up that are clearly not in the source :

Look at post 7 here https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=181700
 
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I am having serious problems editing and saving changes to posts after I initially submit. Sometimes I need to go to advanced and then save changes and sometimes even that does not work. Sometimes things show up that are clearly not in the source :
If after editing TeX, the new TeX looks unchanged or messed up, refresh the page.

Posts can not be edited outside a 24-hour window following the original post time.

The only weirdness I see there is that \partial (from the last equation line) looks split up (as \par tial) in the pop-up TeX display window. I don't know why it's displaying that way. But all the LaTeX implementation looks fine to me.
 
You're right. It corrected itself after I reloaded. However, it took me tons of time to figure out that I needed to reload. Maybe that is a problem that it does not do it automatically when you press save.
 
We cannot force your browser to reload things; all we can do is provide it hints (like pragma: no-cache). Some browsers completely ignore these hints.

- Warren
 
I see. Perhaps the Firefox Mozilla 2.0.0.6 has already resolved it.
 
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