Questions tagged [stacks-editor]
For questions about the Stacks Editor, currently used for Teams and the new Ask Question wizard, and proposed to be used for editing posts across Stack Exchange, which has both Markdown and Rich Text capabilities.
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HTML tags are broken in new editor on SO
HTML tags are broken in the new editor on SO opinion-based posts. This is not broken on MSE in the new editor.
Steps to reproduce:
use the subscript feature in the new editor in WYSIWYG mode
switch ...
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Stacks Editor rejects some valid URLs (like long Godbolt URLs)
The Stacks editor (in WYSIWYG mode which we seem to be stuck with on opinion-based questions) rejects some valid URLs for adding links, and seems to slightly mangle them when pasting them bare.
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Opinion-Based questions don't respect "Enable new editor" setting nor remember the preferred editor
It appears that when posting on Opinion-based questions, we are now forced to use the WYSIWY(D)G (don't) editor; the posts don't respect the Enable new editor preference.
In addition to this, it ...
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Escape closes the editor on opinion-based questions, discarding what you were writing with no warning
I'm temporarily stuck using the Stacks Editor in full WYSIWIG mode on opinion-based questions. IDK if markdown+previous mode would be different.
I accidentally hit escape while aiming for alt+~ to ...
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Editor ignores changes after switching from WYSIWYG to markdown + preview for responses to opinion-based content
I started to write an answer to an opinion-based question (mostly to tell them to repost as a normal question since it was fully factual), but also with some info about their problem.
Part way through ...
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Please restore the Plaintext Editor with live Markdown Preview
I don't know if this is another A/B test or not, but right now I have no way of using the plaintext Markdown editor while being able to see a live preview of the rendered result.
I am not going to ...
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How do I preview the appearance of my question before posting?
The interface for Asking a question used to render a live preview below the Body block.
Like in this example borrowed from Math meta How do I preview my post before posting?
However, my recent ...
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Editing an answer freezes the browser
When I try to edit an answer, the site freezes. This post for example: How to get images on HTML site to stay in position relative to background image as it scales across screen sizes?
Has anyone ...
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Answer edit with a snippet is pretty broken right now
Not really a question but what I consider a bug.
I nearly just gave up trying to add an answer it was so bad.
IDK what has happened to the snippet editor and answers but the usability of creating an ...
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What are these zero height characters?
While editing some answers I came across these zero height characters:
This character seems to break code blocks. I don't know what causes this. When I try to copy-paste them, it converts into a ...
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The Stacks Editor leads to users posting table-only answers
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header 1
header 2
cell 1
cell 2
cell 3
cell 4
I have previously noted this as a reponse but here it is a separate question.
Since the Stacks Editor was released to all new answerers we have ...
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Post editor and Snippet Preview issues
There was no mention (that I was aware of) regarding the brave new changes in the Editor and Snippets area? And I can humbly say that it's terrible from a UE/UI/UX point of view; incomprehensible ...
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New editor keeps WYSIWYG formatting in both non-WYSIWYG modes, incorrectly handles character deletion because of that too
The new editor applies colorized text formatting (italics, bold, text color of code blocks, quotes and separators) to the text being edited in both non-WYSIWYG modes:
It makes the typing experience ...
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Bugs when editing long question on iPad
I am having problem editing any long answer from the web browser on iPadOS or iOS. The new Stacks editor features three modes: rich text, markdown, or markdown with preview, and none of these are ...
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Stack Snippets comes to Stacks Editor
Update June 5, 2025
Snippets is now live on Stacks Editor. While this integration was mainly for feature parity, we did make some improvements so that the feature would run smoothly with the new ...
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