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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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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Double editor when editing a deleted Discussion reply
It happens when editing a deleted reply but not the main post. The bottom editor has all the content and lets me save edits. Seems pretty self explanatory with a picture:
I think only Discussion mods ...
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Can we let the new editor only apply formatting on the actual word without trailing whitespaces?
I found that Stack Overflow recently introduced a new code editor, which looks like below:
For formatting individual words as code or bold in the old editor, I used to double-click the word so that ...
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Is there a beta version of Stack Snippet "leaking" into the site?
Where's the Stack Snippet Button?
At this particular post, the Stacks editor at the bottom didn't have a Stack Snippet button and its buttons were different, see Fig. 1 and compare it to Fig. 2 which ...
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New stacks editor unusable on older version of Safari
I mostly use an older Mac with an older version of Safari. I've already learned that posting questions is impossible with this version of Safari. But I spend 99% of my time here answering rather ...
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New Stack Editor redefines crucial key bindings
The new editor on SO for answers disables some very useful control keys on macOS:
Ctrl-A no longer goes to the beginning of the line, it goes to the beginning of the whole post
Ctrl-E no longer goes ...
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Cannot indent code in the new editor
The Markdown Editing Help page states:
Code and Preformatted Text
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You can also select text and press CTRLK to toggle indenting as code.
This used to work. Previously, I could easily indent any ...
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