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I've noticed this for awhile and never brought it up, but on my cell phone, in the Chrome browser, the text editing options are all greyed out. Even if I highlight a piece of text, it won't let me, say, bold or italicize it.

It's a minor thing at best, so I never brought it up before. But it's been a niggling little thing that's bugged me.

ThatNickGuy said:

I've noticed this for awhile and never brought it up, but on my cell phone, in the Chrome browser, the text editing options are all greyed out. Even if I highlight a piece of text, it won't let me, say, bold or italicize it.

It's a minor thing at best, so I never brought it up before. But it's been a niggling little thing that's bugged me.

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Click the gear

Dei said:

Click the gear

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*long pause*

Wow...I had no idea it was that simple. Thank you.

ThatNickGuy said:

*long pause*

Wow...I had no idea it was that simple. Thank you.

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No problem, I used to have the same issue.

Done it a few times by accident myself. It's nice the iron to disable all those options is there but it's not always very clear

To clarify for anyone wondering, that "gear" toggles in and out of BBCode visibility mode. IE, it changes the text entry from a WYSIWYG editor to a plain text editor with all the tags revealed.

So, another good clue that you are in BBCode visibility mode is that something like this:

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Looks like something like this:


So if you're seeing all kinds of unobscured BBCode in your messages, check that gear.

There are times I HAVE to click the gear, since for some reason the "strikeout" option is available on desktop browser but not on mobile, and then I just have to manually enter the strikeout tags, like some kind of barbarian.

--Patrick