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I read: Using the HTML width attribute is known to cause issues when using some layout modifiers - I used to use it too but got complaints. Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog What issues does using the ...
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There are encoded placeholders on some fields on contact page. For instance: Trust and Safety Account Issue Reproduced on all non-English sites if non-Latin symbols are used in resulting translations....
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The native browser confirmation popup that appears when a moderator is attempting to suspend a user from suggest edits contains encoded symbols in the username. Moreover, if the Cancel button is ...
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I have an account with email like [email protected] (Not a real email). I've visited the Contact page, selected the contact variant (for example, Account Issue > I need to merge user profiles)...
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When flagging/VTCing a question as a dupe, and the link pasted into the box is from a different site, the error message looks like this: But on the 17 sites with ampersands in their titles (as well as ...
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If text in the <kbd> html tag is too long it isn't transferred to the next line, but gets out further: Like screenshot: Like HTML: ...
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The page: https://ru.stackoverflow.com/tags/synonyms When I open the Create Tag Synonym dialog first, it looks fine But if I check/uncheck the Merge Tags option, the button will look like this: ...
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After successfully deleting a tag synonym on https://ru.stackoverflow.com/tags/synonyms, the popup-message shown consists almost entirely of HTML entities. Found the line in Traducir: https://ru....
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My inbox decided to truncate the message preview partway through the HTML entity for a single quote in the word "doesn't". This is... odd. Can it be changed to extend the preview to go all ...
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There's a double HTML escape in the "locked post" message when awarding a bounty:
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When selecting a moderator message template, the first few lines of the text are shown, but with escaped HTML: This is how it looks like in the editor: The same problem also happens in a site-...
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Continuing the trend: Escaped HTML in The Overflow blog The latest edition of The Overflow's content has incorrectly generated quote and apostrophe characters There&#x27;s no escape from HTML ...
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There are several instances of escaped HTML in the latest issue of The Overflow, Sufficiently advanced HTML conversion feels like magic: Further down there's another &#x27;.
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The Overflow #132 has some unescaped/incorrectly generated apostrophes and quotation marks. Here's a screenshot of the problematic content in question: In particular: The term to use when trash ...
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I found an error on a Stack Exchange pop-up. Likely whatever is generating the message (js/node etc) is not parsing the HTML text of the pop-up correctly. Could this be fixed?
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