Emoticons Cause Tears

Question

I have a problem inserting emoticons in my answers;

1. I click the icon at top right and a window of little faces appears.
2. I click a face and the character equivalent appears. (At the foot of my text, not where I left the cursor).
3. I hit any key and everything I have typed disappears. Undo doesn't work - it cannot be retrieved.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Answer 1

OK, I downloaded and installed FireFox - took all of 3 minutes - and guess what? Smileys work fine!

That does suggest it is IE8 and maybe one of its compatibility modes would sort the problem out. Anyway, I'll stick with Mozilla por un rato.

That was the latest version of FireFox - 3.5.4 - Jespa, OCT 29, 2009

I'm glad you figured this out...I can't imagine if something erased my text...Yikes! - --Mariana--, OCT 29, 2009

Answer 2

It does the same thing with me. You can either copy and paste the key combination that makes the smiley face in the place you want, or type the combination yourself.

I'm using Firefox 3.5. - Rex_W, OCT 29, 2009

I've just installed FireFox 3.5.4 and smileys work fine! - Jespa, OCT 29, 2009

Answer 3

I wonder what browser you are using.

IE8 on 64-bit Vista - could well be the culprit! I'll try FireFox tomorrow. - Jespa, OCT 29, 2009

Answer 4

No.........I'm no techie expert but could this have anything to do with your keyboard or the computer that you're using? You could create the emoticon faces manually I suppose, that could possibly work. I haven't tried myself though........

Anyway, good luck with sorting it out!

Yes, I just type the characters in (if I know them) - that works. I expect it is Internet Explorer; I'll try making this a trusted site, I just wondered if anyone else had experienced it. - Jespa, OCT 29, 2009