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BBCode Doing It's Own Thing


bobwifcon

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Back in August, I posted the following in the support area.

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For quite some time, I have been having problems with the blog software placing unwanted punctuation in posts whenever it feels like it. It seems that this occurs when any of my bloggers writes anything but simplistic type. It happens in feeds and original posts on my site. For example, one writer often uses brackets such as this . When he does, the blog software either puts everything after it in italics, cross-out, underline, etc.

I was told that 

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what you provided is the suite working in intended fashion and is an example of the editor using BBCode. BBCode is a way to safely add HTML formatting in web editors and is currently being phased out of IPS applications (and many others) due to it is no longer needed with advanced editors. Currently though we do allow parsing of BBCode.

This morning I had to go to the source code to clean out BBCode's efforts at improving my post.  Since a number of my users posts include legal citations, I had to clean out the "cross-out" code that BBCode inserted after I inserted a .

How far are you in eliminating BBCode?  Or, do you intend to keep it?

Now you see what I mean.  What is crossed out are brackets surrounding the letter "s".

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We still support BBCode but it should be considered deprecated as it's an older system that modern users of the web do not really engage. Only us people who have been around since the early days have even heard of it :) 

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