Feature Request: Warning message before closing the editor.

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Feature Request: Warning message before closing the editor.

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Hi,
The title says it.
How about a warning message that comes up when the user is editing/creating a post and by mistake clicks another link or closes the tab? Most forums and sites show a message like 'Warning: Any unsaved changes will be erased. Click OK to proceed or 'Stay on this page' to get back to the editor'
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Re: Feature Request: Warning message before closing the edit

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Backbutton works and preserves content
Undo close tab works and preserves content.

Learn to use your browser :wink:
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Re: Feature Request: Warning message before closing the edit

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Well, this is my ignorance, after all this pointless thread gave me some info. :)
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Besides, you should 1) likely forward this request to the phpBB developers 2) encourage the administrators to run a version of phpBB that isn't ancient.
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Re: Feature Request: Warning message before closing the edit

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I can imagine quite a few people finding such a feature annoying. I actually abuse it's current implementation to navigate back to look up parts of the thread I'm replying to.
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About [code] tags.

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Hi,
I dare not to create another topic, but I've seen some beginners post heaps of code. I know that posting a lot of code is against the forum rules, but it seems impossible to stop them (everyone does mistakes). Sadly the "[code]" tags don't have a limit and they're stretched as long as the code, which IMO looks irritating. (when you see the whole page with 1000+ lines of code it does).
The FASM forum (which also uses phpBB), has a limit of "[code]" tags. After the code exceeds the limit, it adds a scroll bar, thus a very large piece of code can't take the whole page. Okay, I know you guys will point out a problem with this (which i'd like to know).
Example: http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=16082 (look at the post by "m3ntal").
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Re: Feature Request: Warning message before closing the edit

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My solution to this problem is to ignore any post that contains a large amount of source code. It's normally a sign that the poster is too lazy to do a bit of debugging; I'm too lazy to debug on behalf of others.
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Re: About [code] tags.

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Bender wrote:Hi,
The FASM forum (which also uses phpBB), has a limit of "[code]" tags. After the code exceeds the limit, it adds a scroll bar,

so does ours (at least it does for me...) if it doesn't for you, then its probably theme related (where certain themes do, and other themes don't)
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Re: Feature Request: Warning message before closing the edit

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Yes, it works on SF_Centar and prosilver. I wonder if it's possible for other themes as well.
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