Messed-up formatting in Messaging

Julia Szent-Györgyi · January 17

I replied to a message (here in the Community, not in the main-site Chat), and the formatting of what was delivered bears no resemblance to what I sent.

I specifically turned off the separation/mangling of the link; it took multiple clicks on the "minus" button and the deletion of several spaces to get it to be a simple in-line link like I wanted. (It was so much trouble, in fact, that I pasted the second link between pre-typed parentheses to avoid the hassle.) And I certainly didn't put anything in a table or make anything bold.

Given that I cannot edit my messages after sending, I Do Not Appreciate this mangling of my writing. Can it PLEASE be turned off?

JulianBrown38 · January 18

I recently started a discussion and later added a couple of comments to it. In each of the comments, I was intending to include some text that consisted of a number of lines, each of which consisted of three fields separated by commas (as in CSV format). To my surprise, as soon as I pasted the text into the message body, it turned into a table. That wasn't my intention, but since it was unexpectedly impressive (to me anyway), I'll take it as a win. The first row of the table was bolded, but I couldn't remove that formatting.

I have just created a dummy message and pasted that sort of text into it. The same behaviour occurred there.

It seems that the community's facilities for adding a comment to a discussion, and creating or replying to a message, share a common editor control. It also seems that the control includes functionality that hasn't been implemented in FamilySearch Community. This conversion of some pasted text to tables may be something that should have been disabled. I haven't found any way to do any other common table-related manipulation like changing column widths, and the Help Center doesn't help.

I pasted all the above text into this post, and it appeared as I would have expected in a Vanilla editor. Below is what happened when I pasted (or dragged and dropped) text that could be recognized as being in CSV format:

abc	def	ghi
123	456	789
abc	def	ghi
123	456	789
abc	def	ghi
123	456	789
abc	def	ghi
123	456	789
abc	def	ghi
123	456	789

Messed-up formatting in Messaging

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