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Problem entering text in a 'Net forum w/iPad 2

k7lvo

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There is one forum (FJRForum) that I'm on that I cannot enter text in. When I tap the text window, unlike other text windows that bring up the keyboard, nothing happens. This occurs with every app I've tried - Safari, Atomic Lite, Atomic full, IPB, and possibly a couple of others. These same apps work on the site with my iPhone 3GS. Any ideas?
 

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in those other 3rd. party browsers, have u tried changing what the web views you as? fir ex., in atomic, u can switch from safari to ipad to windows explorer to etcc..sometimes switching that up will enable the txt box to highlight, enabling you to enter txt. i had that happen before. also try out icab browser. its really good, even better thn atomic. you can get it from the app store.
 

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Go into you options in the forum. You sometimes have a choice of text editors to use. The most problematic are the WYSWYG. No telling what they are using. Change to a HTML or Plain Text editor.

As for the iPHone vs the iPad, double check the URL's and make sure you are not being redirected on one of them.
 
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Okay, I changed Atomic to show that it was IE7, which did no good on the FJR Forum. I then looked at the forum setting and found that The following option was checked.


Enable visual (RTE) editor?
Rich Text Editor requires IE6+, Mozilla / Firefox 3.0+, Safari 4+, Google Chrome, or Opera 9+

I de-selected it, which allowed me to bring the keyboard up with the normal tap on the text window.

I didn't bother to change Atomic back to the normal iPad before coming back here to rely that one of the suggestions worked -- and found that I couldn't tap open a text window here! I chained Atomic back to the iPad standard and now it seems to work normally.

Thanks for the excellent siggestions!
 
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In other sites (yes this ipadforums.net) and Hotmail I am unable to bring up the keyboard in the Atomic browser. When I select 'Safari Desktop' it works.

But with Hotmail it is even worse: with none of the user agents I can enter text.
 
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Strange. I don't use Hotmail so I can't comment, but I regularly use Atomic on ipadforums and experience no issues.
 

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