Forum Post Editor

Why does the editor that I see (1st screenshot below) have less features than the editor shown in the editor help menu? (2nd screen shot).  How can I add the extra features? (such as Left/Center/Right Text Allignment)

Have you heard of cut and paste?

Why, when you reject a game challenge, there is a button to post a Youtube video right next to the image icon but not in the forums?

Yes, of course I have heard of "cut and paste".  Why the snarky response?

But have you tried pasting to the editor?  Specifically, I tried pasting a block of left-aligned text before a pre-existing center-alligned diagram.  The text displayed as center-aligned no matter what I tried.  I could start the post all over again and get the allignment I want, but this would be stupid since "editing" means changing part of the post, not having to recreate the entire post.

Am I unreasonable for asking how to access the editor features that are clearly supposed to be available to me? (based on the image in the help menu).

If you did a search for info on this you would have found that this topic has come up previously.

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/suggestions/advanced-editor-tools-not-visible-on-edit-forum-topic-page

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/help-support/tinymce-and-ios-5

Here is the relevant portion:

• TheGrobe 

  The only thing I get is the text box into which I can type my posts.  The toolbar dissapeared some time back after breifly being available.

• 2 years ago · Quote · #14

  erik  

  ah, yes. that caused a lot of problems for most people :/

/ So yes, chess.com should rewrite that help item so that you don't know what you are missing.

• NMozzie_c_cobblepot

  I've discovered, as I'm sure you have TheGrobe, that HTML tags can be written directly into the box from the iPad. So adding a newline is <br>, adding colors (useful for some forums) is with <font color="red">Hello Red World!</font>

• 21 months ago · Quote · #20

  TheGrobe

  So cumbersome, though.

Other people used to be able to enter raw html but that appears to be disallowed. (The forum appears to edit out < and > tags.)  Let us know if you find a workaround.

Thank you, now that was a helpful reply!  And point taken -- I will search the forums more carefully before posting a question.

Anyone else here ever use StackOverflow? It has a great feature where it lists similar questions when you are typing your question. This would be a GREAT feature here.

AH REMEMBER WHERE YOPU ARE~ BY THE WAY, YOU WERENT SILLY ENOUGH TO PAY FOR THIS JUNK??