Visual > Preview

[M³]

Forum URL: m3leagues.com

The 'Visual' link when typing in the message box is gone, and now it is titled 'Preview'.  With the visual editor link ... I was able to copy something and embed it and it appeared pretty much the way I saw it in its original form .. with pics and everything.  Now, this 'Preview' method doesn't grab the pics ... and only the text is grabbed.  I've tried different methods on different sites and I'm still getting the same thing.  I feel like the 'visual' editor was much better .. whereas, the 'preview' has less depth with what you're able to do.  

Is the preview link different from the former visual link?  If so, how?  If not, I must be doing something wrong.  :/

Edit:  This happens using the latest version of Safari and or Firefox.

[CheatAreZee]

Hi M³,

The visual editor was just renamed Preview as there were quite a few complaints about there not being a way to preview your posts, when the visual editor did just that. Also, as far as I understand that anything pasted into the Preview / Visual editor is now stripped of it's formatting. This was also determined due to a drove of complaints from people who were pasting content from other websites or from word processors only to have stray tags appear their post

[M³]

Oh, wow. ... so, the whole WYSIWYG idea ... doesn't really apply anymore, correct? I mean, I guess it does a little bit .. you bold something, it becomes bold for you to see, for example. I felt like the way the editor was before was soooo nice ... and now, it feels ... like you said, stripped. Not a deal breaker, but definitely was a nice feature having had it.

[Stinky666]

Apr 20, 2013 12:22:34 GMT -8 M³ said:

Oh, wow. ... so, the whole WYSIWYG idea ... doesn't really apply anymore, correct? I mean, I guess it does a little bit .. you bold something, it becomes bold for you to see, for example. I felt like the way the editor was before was soooo nice ... and now, it feels ... like you said, stripped. Not a deal breaker, but definitely was a nice feature having had it.

It does still apply, because when you've put your information into the "preview/visual" editor, if you highlight and then bold some text, for example, it's still going to show you a "WYSIWYG" version. It'd still make it bold and you'd see that change instantly.

[David Clark]

The only changes made to the Visual editor were the name of the tab and the fact that if you are to paste something from elsewhere you'll have to apply the formatting yourself, M³.

[M³]

OK, now worries. I do appreciate the replies. #PBs for life!!!

[Angelic Girl]

Wait so now one of the best features is gone? It doesn't update as you make the changes anymore and that's one of the things I liked about the new posting area. ):

[RedBassett]

Nothing has changed about the editor, the tab to access it was simply renamed.

[Angelic Girl]

Well, before it would keep all the formatting if you copied and pasted a post on the site. Now it removes the formatting. Or at least it has been for me since today.

[sarisorrows]

It no longer holds formatting though. It's technically the same tab, but you have to put all of the formatting in yourself. So we're going to have to redo all the stuff we had to do with the visual tab. :\

[Angelic Girl]

Ah, okay. I just realized that if you put the formatting into the BBC tab and then switch to visual it does keep the formatting, it's just a little different. Should be good now.

[RedBassett]

Glad to hear all is well

[My Name is Billy Moonstone]

There seems to be a bit of confusion in this thread - I hope this doesn't add to it! 

"Nothing has changed about the editor, the tab to access it was simply renamed." This isn't entirely correct: yes, the tab was renamed but, this isn't the only change

As David Clark says: "...and the fact that if you are to paste something from elsewhere you'll have to apply the formatting yourself". Also, CheatAreZee earlier on in this thread: "Preview / Visual editor is now stripped of it's formatting". In other words, Proboards recently (last week) implemented quite a significant change in how Preview/Visual worked in respect of copy/pasting

This was a VERY big deal - see this thread - to some of us who relied heavily on the ability to create posts that looked pretty much identical to the original web page we were copy/pasting from, and it looks like it is to the OP here, M³. For me and a few others who replied on that thread, it was one of the best things about the new V5 so we were pretty cheesed off when it got taken away

Copy/pasting from web pages and retaining images and other formatting

But then Proboards to the rescue! If you're reading this and it's an issue for you too - and I'm talking about being able to copy and paste from the web with final result looking like original - then there is a relatively simple way of doing what you did before - see this post from the man who saved the day Brian

Copy/pasting from Microsoft Word and text editors

As a general rule, if you are having problems copying and pasting then you are better using the BBCode tab and, if you do it often, make this your default tab. If you do this but are still having problems copy/pasting from a text editor like Microsoft Word, then there's a whole discussion on it here with various options and solutions that Michael and other PB staff have been chipping in on. It seems that different versions of Word produce different results when copy/pasting, even in the updated Preview/Visual Editor. This post by Joachim gives one clever solution to a certain type of problem with pasting from Word that might also be useful to you

Hope that helps someone

cc Angelic Girl RedBassett sarisorrows Stinky666 

[Angelic Girl]

Apr 27, 2013 0:14:56 GMT -8 My Name is Billy Moonstone said:

There seems to be a bit of confusion in this thread - I hope this doesn't add to it! 

"Nothing has changed about the editor, the tab to access it was simply renamed." This isn't entirely correct: yes, the tab was renamed but, this isn't the only change

As David Clark says: "...and the fact that if you are to paste something from elsewhere you'll have to apply the formatting yourself". Also, CheatAreZee earlier on in this thread: "Preview / Visual editor is now stripped of it's formatting". In other words, Proboards recently (last week) implemented quite a significant change in how Preview/Visual worked in respect of copy/pasting

This was a VERY big deal - see this thread - to some of us who relied heavily on the ability to create posts that looked pretty much identical to the original web page we were copy/pasting from, and it looks like it is to the OP here, M³. For me and a few others who replied on that thread, it was one of the best things about the new V5 so we were pretty cheesed off when it got taken away

Copy/pasting from web pages and retaining images and other formatting

But then Proboards to the rescue! If you're reading this and it's an issue for you too - and I'm talking about being able to copy and paste from the web with final result looking like original - then there is a relatively simple way of doing what you did before - see this post from the man who saved the day Brian

Copy/pasting from Microsoft Word and text editors

As a general rule, if you are having problems copying and pasting then you are better using the BBCode tab and, if you do it often, make this your default tab. If you do this but are still having problems copy/pasting from a text editor like Microsoft Word, then there's a whole discussion on it here with various options and solutions that Michael and other PB staff have been chipping in on. It seems that different versions of Word produce different results when copy/pasting, even in the updated Preview/Visual Editor. This post by Joachim gives one clever solution to a certain type of problem with pasting from Word that might also be useful to you

Hope that helps someone

cc Angelic Girl RedBassett sarisorrows Stinky666 

Thank you for that information, I'll try the method of dragging it into the visual preview and see if it works.  I noticed that if you copy the bbc code into the bbc tab, and then switch it to the preview, it will change it so it's easier to edit and it does still keep the formatting if you edit in the preview tab so at least that's better than nothing.  

[RedBassett]

The removal of formatting was a separate issue. It is simply renamed, however formatting was changed based on issues others were having.