Hi,

I hope everything is going well for everyone this week!

I'm not sure if this has been reported before and I didn't search for any previous post about it, but I just noticed something in the way the forum displays text, and maybe the person responsible for coding/maintenace is aware of that already, but let me try and explain the best I can what I think the problem is.

Let's say we are looking into the "Depression" section.

There is a list of posts made by the members, with the original post title on the left, and then we can see the last post date and user, replies and views on the right.

When you hover the mouse over the post title on the left, a tooltip box pops up with a "preview" of the whole text inside the post.

At least it does on Firefox, but I have not tested it on other browsers.

You see, in posts where trigger codes were added to the text, this tooltip excerpt ignores it and shows text that should actually be hidden.

So I suppose that the forum code that selects the text to be displayed inside this tooltip is ignoring the trigger codes, and displaying text it shouldn't display.

Example: let's say someone wrote a post like this (note that this is only an example to illustrate the problem):

Title: "I need Help!"

Text: "Hi, my name is John and I lost my diecast toy soldier collection."

Supposing a mod decided that the "I lost my diecast toy soldier collection." part should have a trigger code, it will be hidden when viewing the post unless the "Show" button is pressed.

However the tooltip on the page that shows the posts list will display the whole text, if I hover the mouse over the "I need Help!" title.

I hope I managed to explain the situation well enough.

Thank you very much for reading!

[CANDC]

I am not a technical authority but I understand what you are saying. Peeking is a browser related function not one of this website. So if you don't want to see the trigger, don't peek, open the post up and it will display properly. The browser people are probably just coding for text and disregard the trigger coding which is probably HTML.

[DocJohn]

Thanks for the report.

The tooltip is only meant there to show a small preview of the post to allow a person to decide whether to click on the link to view the whole post or not.

Generally, a post shouldn't start immediately off with triggering material, as that would be challenging for a person to decide whether it may be triggering material for them. Instead, posters should always start off a post introducing the material they're going to post about, giving folks a little heads-up first about the possible trigger before actually posting it.

If this is done, it should occur after the trigger code would be displayed in the tooltip. But yes, we'll look into whether we can prevent that kind of material making it into the tooltip to begin with too.

Thanks again,
DocJohn