disappearing text?

Every once in a while this happens when I'm writing a post. When I go back to add a line or change somthing as I type instead of just adding what i'm typing and moving everything else in front of it my already written text gets deleated as I type letter by letter. Is it a setting I can change or some code on the site? It only happens once in a while.

I think it has to do with certain versions of Internet Explorer, because I remember having that problem once upon a day. If running Windows Update doesn't solve the problem, you can either start using Firefox (:)) or go into your profile and force the plain text box, which doesn't have that issue.

This one is an easy fix. Hit the insert key. It changes the setting from insert to overwrite. Firefox doesn't have the problem, but I run into it all the time using Word and Explorer.

Edit: It's not really a problem. It's supposed to work that way. *** Edited 2/22/2005 10:27:29 PM UTC by Blaster_1578***

No... what he's describing is a real problem in IE using the rich text editor. When you submit the post you see all of the text, but all of it isn't transmitted, usually the cut-off being a point where you inserted text.

I use ie for the site, because the little formatting bar right above the text box doesn't show up in firefox (CTRL-B and CTRL-I still work, but sometimes it's more convenient to just click the formatting bar.. especially for links)

Jeff is right.

Basicly somtimes when I go back to add a word or somthing not by copying and pasting, but by scrolling between two words to type another. As I type (If I added this) the rest of this text here would disappear as I type the stuff in parenthesis "the rest of this" would be gone.

The thing that is goofy with it is it will happen once then if I go to post on another topic I won't have the problem. I never noticed what happens if I would have submitted it like that.

Regardless of what I'm posting to and whatever browser I'm using, I almost always do a Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C... select all and copy... to make sure that if the site I'm viewing does something unkind, I still have what I typed.

Copy and Paste - the bestest friend a lazy typist ever had...:)

Seriously though, make sure you're using at least IE 6.0, I don't think I've haad this problem happen to me at all since I upgraded...

I've had a similar problem where I sent text for a post and it didn't post at all, but since most of the time i use Internet Explorer 6 I don't run into that problem, at leat not that I remember and I love the copy and paste feature, whoever thought of that was a genius! ;)