Technically, it may not be a bug, but the strange behavior may be confusing.

The problem — after highlighting some text and clicking on the «Quote» link, the text is pasted into the form (this is correct). However, when now you click the same «Quote» link again (OR any other «Quote» link), the previously highlighted text is pasted again.

I think it would be better to prevent it, ie. after a subsequent click on the «Quote» button, only the warning about how to quote should appear.

If you fix it, please specify what exactly you fixed in the code, thank you ;)

It seems I've got what do you mean — after clicking on «Quote», the quotation marker is not reset and still kept in memory. So, the next time you click on «Quote», the script supposes if there's something in memory then it's selected.

But it lasts only until the cursor is appearing/blinking in the post form. As soon as you click anywhere on the page and the cursor disappears, the marker is reset. At least this is how it works in desktop browsers — on mobile devices, this status seems to be reset immediately.

Anyway, here would be a simple solution (I'll apply it for the next official release, but it should work right now on these forums already):

— open form.js for editing

— locate the code string ending with:

— after this, enter/paste:

Let me know if it worked for you.

Hi Paul, yes you are exactly right what I meant.

But could you check this in Firefox — now I reloaded the form.js from the browser cache and it still didn't change anything. So I suspect it may work in other browsers, but not in Firefox.

I mean — I assume you've already changed it on minibb.com domain where I check or you didn't change it yet..

Update — I checked this forum on Edge browser and it still doesn't work, unless you didn't change it here. I don't have Chrome installed to check, but it may work there.

Update 2 — hm, it seems to work now in Firefox, maybe there was cache delay, it started to work a few min after my script reloading.. but still, please check in Firefox, it seems to work at one minute but doesn't work later.

Update 3 — I changed it on my site and still have a problem with Firefox / Edge, unless there's some kind of a delay or the selection stays in the browser due to cache or .htaccess settings.. Now it works so maybe it works..

form.js is updated on this forum and I'm pretty sure it works. But this server extensively caches static files, perhaps as possibly yours (most of shared servers or VPS cache nowadays everything they could). So it's not just enough to reload exactly form.js in the URL bar. Also, Firefox IMHO lost its past times favor. I'm using Opera and it allows quickly and effectively clean all cached data files to check the fresh results. Edge and Firefox require to go much deeper in their Settings to clean up just files, but not the passwords, cookies or search history. Try in Opera first.

I think it works and the fix in the code makes sense why it does, thank you. Will report if more problems.

This still needs an improvement, the first solution I've given doesn't cover all cases.

It seems that something changed in almost all browsers routine, and from some time they «remember» the selection value. So it has to be reset not just for the Quote, but also for all BB-codes and buttons like Bold, Italic etc. which could be involved in text selection.

My current proposal is that the selection value should be reset as just as the routine completed inserting the BB-code based text into the textarea.

This should be improved:

form.js -> insertAtCursor function — before each line myField.focus(); there should be inserted the following code:

It should be done for 3 different code blocks.

Otherwise, paste_strinL function should not be modified, 'cause the above case should cover the Quote pasting, too.

Thank you — I now implemented it too. I also noticed some issue with this, but couldn't replicate it. Hopefully now it fixes it.

Ok, I hope I managed to provide steps how to recreate this bug. To me, it happens when editing text (testing in Firefox):

1. Edit a message.
2. Delete some text.
3. Write a new text.
4. Highlight this new text.
5. Click on the Bold or Italic or Youtube etc. button to add BB codes to this new text.

Problem: the old-deleted text reappears. Note — sometimes you have to try again if the old text doesn't appear after the first highlight.

Here, it's important to know how exactly you do this. You highlight some text, delete it pressing Delete button, and the where do you type the new text? Or you just type the new text over the highlighted one?

Yes, I highlight some text with a mouse, use a keyboard / Delete button to delete it, then focus on the form again to add some text, then highlight it and click on the BB button.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me, I couldn't repeat it... tried to highlight the text in Firefox and then delete it various ways — pressing Delete or Backspace, Ctrl+X or simply pasting (Ctrl+V) the new text over it. Not cracked this time... a more stronger algorithm is required.

It sometimes works (most of the time), but not always for me..

Hopefully I have an update regarding this bug...

It's about of how do you select the text, actually.

Like to show on an exact example, copy this text into the message field:

Then try the following:

— select/highlight some text with the mouse, let's say the 3rd to the 5th word i.e. dolor sit amet

— delete it clicking Del button

— select/highlight some other text, let's say consectetur adipiscing elit, BUT NOT WITH THE MOUSE — for example, putting the cursor at the beginning of the phrase and then, holding Shift button, scroll the selection with the Right-Arrow button, or otherwise — put the cursor at the end of the phrase, and then scroll the selection with the Left-Arrow button

— click the Bold button

— you should see that between [b ] ... [ /b] tags, the deleted phrase dolor sit amet will appear.

I need more reports on it... if it's confirmed with such an algorithm, then it just means the current function doesn't catch any other highlighting/selecion other than if the mouse is used, and that's what the bug is about.