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Bug: Questions Search

I'm having a lot of issues with searching on the Questions side of Deals. It appears to only affect logged in black triangles.

At first I thought it was just showing code, but now I'm seeing it's more than that, so I figured I'd start a question - on the chance that other people are having the same issue.

Here's a screen of the issue: http://i54.tinypic.com/eskjg6.jpg

I've tried Chrome and Firefox.

by drchops
asked 10 months ago

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Like always, feel free to delete this Question.

drchops
10 months ago

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yeah i noticed that too, it's a recent thing like in the last few days only. CSS issue

w00tgurl
10 months ago

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The "em" tag is for emphasis. It's supposed to put emphasis on the search term when mentioned. Woot just doesn't handle HTML properly when it's thrown in there. No idea how to fix it since I quit programming in college. Worst major ever.

Just thought I'd let you know.

holymythos
10 months ago

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glad it wasn't just me!
I thought maybe it was a browser issue (firefox)

kamikazeken
10 months ago

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I'm using Chrome and see it as well. It's rather annoying. Which staff member should be invoked? @shawnmiller @josefresno

thepenrod
10 months ago

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@thepenrod: Those are a good start (on the invocation). You might also want to alert @dave bug for this, and himself, @jumbowoot, just for the sake of completion.

Oh, and please don't delete the question, dearest friends on the developer end of things. Questions about bugs are useful to keep around.

shrdlu
10 months ago

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@shrdlu: I couldn't remember how to get @dave bug to do link properly instead of looking like this: @dave bug.

Edit: (Obviously I know now because of your comment.)

thepenrod
10 months ago

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@holymythos: Yeah, thanks for the info. That's what I meant when I said "only affects black triangles" but I guess that's pretty ambiguous heh, so thanks for clarifying.

Also, I invoked shawnmiller and josefresno on another thread before I made this, then I realized there was a little more to it than just the code showing - so I posted a question.

(those guys are always busy working on something - and they're always the first to get called with tech issues, so I try to alert 'em as little as possible...hence the lack of @'s :D)

drchops
10 months ago

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@drchops: i forgot, is that still only for black triangles? it's not for everyone yet? the bolding of your search term

w00tgurl
10 months ago

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