Strange behavior of Forum text editor

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The forum text editor automatically changes the capitalization of certain words, such as "Electric," due to an autolink feature that activates with specific terms. Users can disable this feature in their control panel to prevent automatic changes. Enclosing words in specific tags can preserve capitalization and prevent autolinking. Additionally, placing the word at the start of a new line can also bypass this issue. The discussion highlights various methods to control text formatting in the forum editor.
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I started a post with the word "Electric". After submission, the post started with the word "electric". I tried to capitalize "electric" three times, and the text editor thrice changed it to "electric". Well. if ee cummings can do it, i can too.

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It's because you've got automatic library linking turned on. Turn it off in your user control panel, and that will work.
 
I will hazard a guess that using the [noparse][noparse][/noparse] tags around the word electric, i.e. [noparse][noparse]Electric[/noparse][/noparse] will not trigger the autolink feature and the capitalization will be preserved.

I'm trying it here: [noparse]Electric[/noparse] . Yup, seems to work.
 
It shouldn't happen with "electric" on its own, since there isn't a library entry with that name.

It can happen with "electric field", "electric displacement field, or "electric units".

A quick way to stop it is to type the word/phrase in black each time: Electric field Electric field :wink:

Or place it at the start of a line (other than the first line), since that puts it after a return tag, which spoils the autolinking (conversely, if you want the autolinking at the start of a line, insert a space first:
Electric units :redface:
Electric units :smile:).
 
[noparse][noparse][/noparse] did not work for me. Here is an example. [noparse]Torque[/noparse] is moment. But enclosing the word in [noparse]Word[/color][/noparse] does work. Here is an example. Stress[/color] and pressure have like units. Here is the same sentence without enclosing the first word in [noparse][/color][/noparse] tags. Stress and pressure have like units.
 
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