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[Wrichik Basu]

I am speaking about this thread: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/recursion-with-a-runnable-in-java.1047991/

This is what I am seeing:

Tried from Chrome and Firefox. Same issue. But in other threads, the reply box is working fine.

Does anyone else face the same issue? Mods?

 

[Ibix]

Me too (Firefox on Android).

Workaround: click Reply in a post and the edit box appears with the quoted material. You can then edit.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Workaround: click Reply in a post and the edit box appears with the quoted material. You can then edit.

Interesting. Once I have replied, I can see the edit box. If I refresh the page, it's gone again.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

What browser and version?

 

[DrClaude]

I have the same problem with Safari Version 16.0 (17614.1.25.9.10, 17614)

 

[Wrichik Basu]

What browser and version?

Firefox 108.0 (64-bit) as well as Chrome 108.0.5359.98.

 

[mfb]

Brave, I get a couple of JS errors and no reply box.

Uncaught TypeError: Illegal constructor
at code-block-actions.min.js?_v=93ac117a:2:39
at code-block-actions.min.js?_v=93ac117a:4:313

Uncaught DOMException: Failed to execute 'querySelector' on 'Element': '.line-highlight[data-range=""13"]' is not a valid selector.
at n (https://www.physicsforums.com/js/CM...ugins/line-highlight.min.js?_v=93ac117a:1:487)
at https://www.physicsforums.com/js/CM...gins/line-highlight.min.js?_v=93ac117a:1:2719
at NodeList.forEach (<anonymous>)
at https://www.physicsforums.com/js/CM...gins/line-highlight.min.js?_v=93ac117a:1:2700

Prism plugin is code highlighting? Maybe a crash of that prevented the reply box JS from running.

Minimized code to trigger the problem:
[CODE highlight=""13, 25""]foo[/CODE]
I can reproduce the problem by posting this piece of code in other threads. If I replace the double "" by single " it works, so that's the key problem. I fixed it in the linked thread.

 

[Ibix]

Same issue, same poster in this post. Looks like something about how @Darkmisc is posting code is causing those doubled double quotes.

 

[mfb]

It's coming from the interactive editor:

> Optional. Line numbers you want to highlight. For example, "2, 4-6" will highlight lines 2, 4, 5 and 6.

It wants the user to write e.g. 2,4-6, so it adds quotation marks around the user input. If the user plugs in "2, 4-6" with quotation marks then the post ends up with double quotation marks, which then breaks the execution of the highlighting script. That means the best fix will have two elements:
- check if the user input has quotes already, and remove them before processing the string further to create valid syntax
- catch the invalid input when showing the comment so it doesn't break things

In the meantime: @Darkmisc please don't add " " around the lines you want to highlight.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

There is small update to the core software. I'll find a time in the next week to run it.