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Please can we have a "European Cups" section in the rugby union section?
I wanted to make a thread today about Munter (Irish) vs Harlequins (England) European cup game today but had to put it in the Magners League section .

Secondly Id recommend altering the "International" section to "General Rugby Discussion" and moving all the topics in the rugby Union section into it. Then Blocking posting in the Rugby Union section.

You could also delete the "Top 14" section as it's a French league and I'm assuming the French fans would be posting on French language forums. Another option maybe to change "Top" 14 to "European Cups / Top14" to accomodate both, as French clubs play in Europe which is about the only place we'd mention them.

Thanks for the feedback Alyn. Will have a word with the team and see what's best going forward.

AlynDavies wrote:Please can we have a "European Cups" section in the rugby union section?
I wanted to make a thread today about Munter (Irish) vs Harlequins (England) European cup game today but had to put it in the Magners League section

If you don't have a sub section for the post you want to make, why not just put it at the top-most level in the rugby forum? That's what happens in most other sports

It may well be as we approach the sharp end of the season and the European cups that a sub section is justified but until then, the top level forum is surely the best place to put it rather than shoe-horn it into an inappropriate section

Davie wrote:If you don't have a sub section for the post you want to make, why not just put it at the top-most level in the rugby forum? That's what happens in most other sports

It may well be as we approach the sharp end of the season and the European cups that a sub section is justified but until then, the top level forum is surely the best place to put it rather than shoe-horn it into an inappropriate section

Ok thanks for the reply. Obviously I put in the Magners section because Munster are a Magners team and they were in the event. Obviously as they were playing a French team and French people would be on French language forums then Id assume the posters would be Irish so would know where to find my post, in the section where Irish teams play.
Id still recommend altering the Top 14 forum to "European cups / French" though as Ive stated any discussion on the Top 14 and Pro D2 would be done by French fans who speak French. yYou only have to see how the "Top 14" forum is falling behind the other in terms of threads made, and the threads they do have are about Gavin Henson who will be leaving that league in a few weeks, meaning it will be a desolute and unused forum for the most part.

What has happened with the changing of replying to/posting new topics?

Seems like a new reply box has been implemented by the people who host the forum for us (without telling us of course). We are seeing what we can find out about it

Derbyblue wrote:What has happened with the changing of replying to/posting new topics?

It's an update from the ForumMotion people.

Cheers guys. It just seems to have made it more awkward for me when replying.

Derbyblue wrote:Cheers guys. It just seems to have made it more awkward for me when replying.

In the right hand corner of the widget box there is a small arrow which hides everything.

King Beer wrote:

Derbyblue wrote:Cheers guys. It just seems to have made it more awkward for me when replying.

In the right hand corner of the widget box there is a small arrow which hides everything.

Thanks King Beer.

Does anyone know why it puts </SPAN> at the end of any line pasted in from Microsoft Word, and how to stop it?

The <span> tag is used to group inline-elements in a document.

The <span> tag provides no visual change by itself.
The <span> tag provides a way to add a hook to a part of a text or a part of a document.

When the text is hooked in a span element you can add styles to the
content, or manipulate the content with for example JavaScript.

Basically now when you copy over from MS Word, it copies over the formatiing.



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The <span> tag is used to group inline-elements in a document.

The <span> tag provides no visual change by itself.
The <span> tag provides a way to add a hook to a part of a text or a part of a document.

When the text is hooked in a span element you can add styles to the
content, or manipulate the content with for example JavaScript.

Basically now when you copy over from MS Word, it copies over the formatiing.



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Holymiky wrote:

King Beer wrote:

The <span> tag is used to group inline-elements in a document.

The <span> tag provides no visual change by itself.
The <span> tag provides a way to add a hook to a part of a text or a part of a document.

When the text is hooked in a span element you can add styles to the
content, or manipulate the content with for example JavaScript.

Basically now when you copy over from MS Word, it copies over the formatiing.

</span></span></span>

<span><span><span></span></span></span>

<span><span><span>It doesnt seem to be working quite right yet - I am sure they will fix it soon enough.</span></span></span>



My mother has <span
class="blue">light blue</span>
eyes.

<p>My mother has <span
class="blue">light blue</span>
eyes.</p>

Ok thanks, I guess its something people reading my posts may have to get used to then

When they fix it will it stop showing the </span> ?

There are two icons that look like Clipboards. One has the Word "W" and the other the notepad icon. If you click those it will either copy as Word format or Plain text.

Thank you DT

No worries Derby. Let me know if that works.

It does

HI Mods/Admin Folk .

When I am going from thread to thread on this
forum eg. Games/Quizzes to say an *andymonium* thread
WHY do I have to keep going back to the original site?

Every time I try to press the "<" button it just brings
me back to * Tennis 606v2"

It's VERY annoying - Can nothing be done to overcome this please?

there is a "jump to" drop down menu below and right of the quick reply box.

You can also click on the words below the quick reply box and to the right of the "new topic" and "post reply" icons.

Not sure if this helps or not!

Yummy if you scroll to the bottom of the page there should be a "Jump to:" section. That allows you to select an area of the forum to jump directly to.

What do you expect the "<" key to do? What browser are you using?

"<" does nothing in Internet Explorer - I suspect it may be a shortcut in whatever browser you are using to go to the previous page.

Is this a change in behaviour? Did it used to do something different?

Please give examples of what it does and what you expect it to do

It's not a key per se Davie but a great big white on blue
icon just under the "Help" sign on the left hand top page
of the screen. Usually if you click on that it takes you back
to the previous post


I am a Computer Virgin so be gentle with me !!!

I would suggest trying the "Jump to:" feature Yummy. I think that will sort your problem.

Thanks

My pleasure. Let me know if that was what you were looking for

Guys

Is there a way of setting up a HTML format which we could use as a match thread for the Fantasy League games?

It would helpful if it could be along the lines of the old format which was like this (http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A83922429)

RugbyDriver wrote:Guys

Is there a way of setting up a HTML format which we could use as a match thread for the Fantasy League games?

It would helpful if it could be along the lines of the old format which was like this (http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A83922429)

I'll look into it for you!

RD,

Can you PM me the existing HTML format you have on that thread?

Is it possible to post photographs on this forum?

michael_o wrote:Is it possible to post photographs on this forum?

No we don't allow photographs so that it keeps the forum "work safe". You can post links to photos though

michael_o wrote:Is it possible to post photographs on this forum?

Hi Michael,

We don't allow images to be embedded but you can by all means post the link.

Cheers,

KB

Fair enough. But I wasn't thinking of posting any photograph of dubious taste!

That's not the only type of "Work Safe" we mean. The beauty of the original 606 was the simplicity of the design etc. It wasn't overly obtrusive for wandering eyes in the office.

If you open a page are their are images embedded...it makes it easier to spot that you are on a site that you are not meant to be on.

Hi Guys. Just wrote an article in the knowledge thread regarding a new type of malware for Mac which I want to warn others to be careful of. Is that the best place for it? If not I would appreciate if you could move it to where you think it would be most effective.

I think its ok there SC, thanks for the heads up.

Perfect place for it. Hopefully it will wipe the smile off the faces of all the smug Mac users who claim they don't have to worry about viruses too

It's not a virus though. It can't do anything if you don't give it admin privileges or give the user any money to "clean-up your computer". There are still very few Mac viruses and the ones that exist get sand-boxed by OSX. I still have AV software though, because you never know when viruses will take off on Macs in a serious way.

I want to change my name too just Liam_Main but it's saying that the username has already been taken so is there anyway you could delete my old account so I can change it.Many thanks.

Is there any possibility of setting up a "Reviews" section where people can review electronics, games, albums etc?

I will bring it with the mods and admins chuck - watch this space.

Cheers Hobo. Could be beneficial to the site, a lot of companies give away free products for people who post reviews on busy websites

Me and Pr4wn were wondering if it would be possible to have a chat box interview, there's someone on twitter who said to tweet someone else to set up interviews etc. with him. So would it possible for us to host an interview in the chat box if they agree and we work out the potential time difference issues? Pr4wn's idea.

I think it would be a good idea but I am not sure how it would work. Thereotically, anyone could jump in and mess about.

I am not sure if it can be limited to view only for the admin (of the chat box) people only.

Hopefully someone else will be able to give a better answer!

Ok cheers Hobo, that was one of my concerns we don't want to be in the middle of the interview for some of the wrestling people to jump in talking about which of the current female wrestlers on tv you would

My jump to drop down menu is no longer displayed?

try hitting ctrl F5 to clear the cache.

If not, I dont know why - its working for me

Strange, sometimes it appears and sometimes t doesnt. Probably the web browser Im using in work!

Due to total incompetence on my part I've posted a new article 'Shaun Tait No Show' on the general Cricket Topics part of this forum. It should be under the Surrey section of County Cricket. Can you please move it there for me please.

Enjoying this forum and pleased to see it gaining cricket followers.

Many thanks, Guildford.