Okay, so I was editing my profile today. I accidentally forgot to add an ending quote to the href of an anchor tag in the HTML and that error appears to have royally screwed up my comics page. See for yourself. Further investigation has shown that forgetting to add any ending quotes makes this problem happen. It reverts back to normal if the error is removed. However, it seems to have also deleted my entire list of favorite users, which does not revert back to normal.

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Blue is the color of victory.

Also, there appears to be an unstated limit to how long a profile can be.

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Blue is the color of victory.

Well, improper HTML is going to screw up the pages. I'm not sure if there's much I can do about that.

The profile limit is 1000 characters.

I've taken a look at the source and I can't see any obvious problem that would cause your favorites to get overwritten. An open tag shouldn't cause that, neither should exceeding the 1000 character limit. Both have happened many times before and never wiped out any favorites.

If you can repeat the error, let me know so I can look into it more.

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You could always make something that closes unclosed quotes within HTML brackets, although I suppose that would be a lot of work. It would probably be more effort than it's worth.

I think I see what causes the favorites list deletion problem: in Mozilla (and perhaps Netscape and others that I haven't tested it in), whenever I don't close an ending quote in HTML in my profile, it seems to subsequently think that the following block of HTML for "Display E-Mail" and "Favorites" is part of my profile. When I delete that HTML to revert my profile back to normal, every time I've done that my favorites list gets deleted.

This problem does not appear to happen in Internet Explorer, likely due to its better ability to successfully parse badly formed HTML; that ability results in those two following sections not being included in your profile and your favorites list staying intact.

I'm not really sure if that would be fixable (unless you did my first suggestion above); it seems to me like it's inherent in how Mozilla renders the HTML. I'm just answering your question as to why that deletion happens.

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Blue is the color of victory.

Interesting, that sorta makes sense. Yeah the quote thing would be possible to fix, I'm planning to overhaul the non-forums side of the site sometime so I'll have to keep this in mind. There are probably validators out there I could use.

A hack might be for me to enclose the profile text in a table. Tables have a way of containing craziness sometimes.

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