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All I can say is I haven't yet not had the respective keyboard shortcuts work for me in any one of the browsers that I have installed, although I primarily use MS/IE. Additionally, it is very easy to visually confirm if it didn't because the insertion point cursor wouldn't be to the far left of the message content area. It would be offset to the right (i.e. indented) because of still being within the "blockquote" HTML tag.
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All I can say is I haven't yet not had the respective keyboard shortcuts work for me in any one of the browsers that I have installed, although I primarily use MS/IE. Additionally, it is very easy to visually confirm if it didn't because the insertion point cursor wouldn't be to the far left of the message content area. It would be offset to the right (i.e. indented) because of still being within the "blockquote" HTML tag.
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Posted By Greg Elmassian on 07 Apr 2012 02:58 PM
Not to belabor the point, but I have done this many times:
Greg
Nowhere within my reply did I suggest that you weren't encountering a problem, now did I.
The HTML editor will not allow you to break out of a tag at the beginning of the content area, it never has, and you can go to the CuteSoft web site and try that same thing on their latest & greatest demo software and you'll run into the same condition. Why their software is written that way I have no idea, except that while it emulates the MS/Word user interface, it also follows the rules to create XHTML compliant code???? I guess it could also be a configuration thing that can be altered but I haven't happened across any documentation that implies that that is the case.
Which may be why when the editor opens and displays the content of a quoted reply, it's located at the top of the message content area, expecting the reply text to be placed below the quote and not above it.
So yes you are correct, in so far as if you wish to place your reply above the content of a quoted reply then you'll have to manually switch to the "HTML View" insert the respective HTML tag you wish to use prior to the opening "blockquote" tag, to acomplish the task.
Not to belabor the point, but I have done this many times:
Greg
Nowhere within my reply did I suggest that you weren't encountering a problem, now did I.
The HTML editor will not allow you to break out of a tag at the beginning of the content area, it never has, and you can go to the CuteSoft web site and try that same thing on their latest & greatest demo software and you'll run into the same condition. Why their software is written that way I have no idea, except that while it emulates the MS/Word user interface, it also follows the rules to create XHTML compliant code???? I guess it could also be a configuration thing that can be altered but I haven't happened across any documentation that implies that that is the case.
Which may be why when the editor opens and displays the content of a quoted reply, it's located at the top of the message content area, expecting the reply text to be placed below the quote and not above it.
So yes you are correct, in so far as if you wish to place your reply above the content of a quoted reply then you'll have to manually switch to the "HTML View" insert the respective HTML tag you wish to use prior to the opening "blockquote" tag, to acomplish the task.
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No Problem Greg.
It may be a generational thing, until the advent of computers especially the PC with its ability to rearrange things at will. In English speaking countries the habit has always been left-to-right, top-to-bottom, and beginning-to-end (i.e. a repeat of the left-to-right) when reading or writing.
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It may be a generational thing, until the advent of computers especially the PC with its ability to rearrange things at will. In English speaking countries the habit has always been left-to-right, top-to-bottom, and beginning-to-end (i.e. a repeat of the left-to-right) when reading or writing.
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