Questions tagged [validation]
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Protocol-relative URLs to embedded images are incorrectly being blocked
It is possible to write links without specifying the protocol, in this manner:
[This is a reference-style link][some-link]
[This is an inline-style link](//stackexchange.com)
[some-link]: //...
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Links in markdown cause code validation failure
Below you'll find some markdown that I tried to post as the answer for a question.
When I tried to click submit I get the validation error which is also below regarding a malformed code block
When I ...
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Can't post answer because of malformed code, but code seems well formed
I am trying to post answer to a question, but I fail validation for malformed code.
What I've tried so far:
Paste markdown into text editor
Turn on visible white space and count the spaces, carriage ...
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Login page: password validation
I have noticed a typo in the password validation field when you sign up on Stack Overflow.
When your password is 6 characters or less, this gets displayed:
Quoting the text:
Must contain at ...
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Trying to commit to a proposal with a mail on a new TLD fails
I've tried to commit to an Area51 proposal with an email like so [email protected], which is a valid email on a domain I own (that's not the real email, obviously).
However, Area51 ...
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I can't post a certain string of Arabic text here
I am trying to post a bug report here that contains some Arabic text (it's an RTL issue). You can read the text of the bug report at this pastebin link: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=HCUHQdb8.
When ...
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What happened to the Data Explorer Input Fields?
I just tried one of my queries in Data Explorer, and noticed the input fields were missing. Here's a screencap:
The following error message was returned in the JSON response:
{"error":"Missing value ...
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Validation Notification Error in Account recovery Page
I tried to reset my password for my account.
After going to recovery page, I have entered a password without special characters.
It showed alert to give special characters.
Then i removed the ...
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Is there any server side check for commenting permissions?
Users can earn a privilege comment everywhere when their reputation reaches 50. Yes, I can comment on any questions or answers already. You can blame me for trying to test this.
On one question, I ...
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Validation required in question preview screen in Android app
What is there to preview without entering any details? There must be some validations before allowing to preview questions like "title is required", "tags are required", "body must contains >300 ...
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Comment length is not validated until the close vote is submitted
When I try to add a one character long comment to a question the "Add Comment" button will do nothing (because validation fails) - that okay. Yet if I
click "Close" on a question,
select "offtopic ...
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Edit summary text field can be submitted without any description by using spaces
The edit summary text field when submitting an edit does not validate space. A user can press the space bar a few times and submit the summary without any description.
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Validation error appears in header when canceling an "edit tags" operation
When you add 5+ tags to a question, a red dialog appear telling that you can't more than 5 tags. Normally, this dialog appear next to the tag field. Here, it appears in the header:
I've tested on ...
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Stack Overflow won't let me post code, I don't have proper "formatting"?
I was trying to answer a coding question in Java. I had some code and used <pre><code>, put my code in, then typed </pre></code>. I then came across this error when trying to ...
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Stack Overflow Isn't Valid HTML5 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
The “Hello World!” box is surrounded by paragraph tags twice
stackoverflow.com isn't valid HTML5. There's an extra </p> in the "Hello World!" box.
See for ...
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