What the title says, basically. HTML/CSS code looks great when previewing a forum post, but once I actually post it, it just shows the code I've written. For example: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=100134

When previewing, it looks like this:


Normally, I just use the markup language built into Sylestia (which is what I used here to make the image work), but HTML/CSS is so much more powerful, so I'm hoping this is fixable.

The forums don't support HTML/CSS; all text when post is taken as a string (I think) and is sanitised before being made into a visible post on the forum. This is most likely for security reasons since js and other stuff can be injected with HTML.

(I found out when I tried to use <marquee> once. Don't ask why. Younger me was a menace.)

Edit: After looking at your HTML, I think you're trying to direct people who click on the images to corresponding pet pages? You can use the built in [.img=your url here]image url here[./img]

Hm, then why does it look like it's working in the preview? If it's just going to show the code as is, that should be what shows in the preview too, shouldn't it?

Also, I know at least some HTML/CSS works because I copied an imgur embed link once by mistake instead of the regular link, and it worked.

Yeah, I know how to do what I've done in that post with the built in Sylestia markup language, but I was just starting out with that as the skeleton of the post, and then I was going to do some fun formatting stuff with it that the regular Sylestia language refuses to do, so that's why I'd rather be able to do it in HTML/CSS.

Maybe the preview allows the client's browser to parse and run HTML. What is definitely sure is that whatever you have in the text box goes through a text sanitiser before it is posted - that's why some unicode characters show up in preview but are removed after posting (e.g. smart quotes).

Then again, I don't know how the site works exactly because I'm just a user like you. Krin would know for sure.

And I totally agree with you that HTML support would be nice. Forum posts would look very different if it were the case - there are definitely people familiar with HTML around here. Alas, tradeoffs must be made, probably in the interest of security.

As was pointed out above - in order to stylize your posts on the Forums you will have to use our built in tools.

Regarding why it seems to display during the preview, but not once fully posted, there must be some sort of discrepancy where the preview is missing a sanitization script that the actual post runs. I will try and look into this when I have time to get the preview to match the final post.

Okay. Thanks for getting back to me about it.