I forgot to close a quotation mark on

blog on the Firefly site:

J. Whedon is directing---love that!!!

and I got this: a problem with truncation?

From the third-party blog on the Firefly site:

J. Whedon is directing---love that!!! The energy he brings to set is amazing. Not only that, but watching him direct an ep is better than any film class you could take…why and what he notices is astonishing… my favorite thing is when he finishes watching a take and says, “GREAT!, PERFECT, AMAZING…going again…”

Seems to have been fixed, assuming you meant the firefly thread?

[EDIT: and I fixed what you posted here, because it was busting this thread]

Were you just wondering what the asterisks were for?

Ask Jon B but it's normally hidden, and it's a workaround for a certain browser.

Those weren't bottom-of-the-page asterisks, I knew about those. It was something I wasn't expecting produced by the tag-closing function or by the thing's response to my missing quote.

edit: so I posted not to have it fixed, but to say "Is the tag-closer broken?" I don't think we have a tag-closer yet, though.

I don't think we have a tag-closer yet, though.

No, we don't.

It was something I wasn't expecting produced by [...] the thing's response to my missing quote.

Well, it's not that unexpected. After all, your link to something.com, if the quote is never closed, becomes a link to the something.com address, plus the whole of the rest of the page from that point onward, doesn't it?

You know what's a really good habit to get into? Any time you type quotes, type both of them right away, then use the left-arrow to put the cursor back between them.

Same for HTML brackets.

Someone from our accountancy department showed me that and I've never looked back. Never miss a closing quote again! Though I sometimes accidentally end up with

A HREF="" something.com

A HREF="something.com [remainder of page]

I liked how HomeSite would type both the quote marks and jump your cursor back between them. Typically, what I'm doing is typing "quote, Ctrl-V, quote," with only a short time to forget the close quote.

what I'm doing is typing "quote, Ctrl-V, quote,"

That'll do it -- just do "quote-quote, left-arrow, Ctrl-V" like Homesite does for you. Same keystrokes.

ita, when you have a moment, what are the legal tags here?

I really want to think about the tag-closer code again, but are there any legal tags, apart from <br> which don't need closing?

I wouldn't swear to it, but poking around in the test site i found this list in the post-stripping function:

<a> <b> <i> <u> <ul> <ol> <li> <p> <br> <strike> <table> <tr> <td> <th> <font> <pre> <code>

Thanks Jon, that's like strip_tags(the list above), right?

So, only really BR, but what about the ones that don't need to be closed for it to work, but should be for the syntax, like P and LI? Hmmm. More thinking required.

that's like strip_tags(the list above), right?

Pretty much, yeah.

what about the ones that don't need to be closed for it to work, but should be for the syntax, like P and LI?

I'd say close them. I'm all for compliant html where possible.

t edit although I see the problem --- you want the t /li to occur before the next t li or t /ul

Similarly, with the P tag.