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This question popped into my RSS feed and, of course, I had to take a peek. The title is captivating.

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Before voting to close, I tried to edit out the redundant tags, maybe just down to one. But when I tried, something weird happened.

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What happened to all those tags? Maybe someone edited while I was crying at the quality of the question? But when I refreshed the page, the tags were still there.

I tried a couple more times, and while I noticed that the tags appeared to still be there for a fraction of a second (plain text), once the tag formatting kicked in all I was left with were these two tags. The same thing happens when you edit the entire question.

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But, if you select all text in the textbox, removing the formatting, you do see the tags.

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Bug? Also, enjoy my nested quotes.

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  • I was able to remove the tags that showed, leaving the other 3, but then I thought better of it and rolled back so others could see this delightful behavior for themselves.
    – Wooble
    Sep 19, 2013 at 17:22
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    Given the meta-effect can close questions in minutes, I am shocked the question only has 1 close vote after 30 minutes
    – psubsee2003
    Sep 19, 2013 at 17:35
  • @psubsee2003 - people are going there for the bug and closing means deletion is not far behind. Gotta see that bug.
    – Oded
    Sep 19, 2013 at 17:38
  • If you hold right arrow in the textbox, you will immediately realize the problem
    – Doorknob
    Sep 19, 2013 at 21:04
  • Declining, as this is rather rare. The tags have to be just long enough to cause this issue, and though confusing, this is not something that most people will encounter.
    – Oded
    Sep 23, 2013 at 14:55

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The tags are there, they're just being aligned way to the left for some reason...

I'm over here sir...

That left: -378.5px looks very suspicious.

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    Heh. The total width of those tags together in the edit box is more than the width of the box itself (666px, no devils involved) - the cursor goes to the end of the last tag, so guessing the browser wants that to be visible and adjusts the margins.
    – Oded
    Sep 19, 2013 at 17:32
  • Having said that (and not given much thought to a fix), not sure what the right thing to do here is...
    – Oded
    Sep 19, 2013 at 17:42
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With Firefix under Ubuntu and 1920x1080 diplay, that's what I'm seeing editing the question.

This is what I was seeing

If I remove the partially showing tag, I see the other ones with a some strange spacing. And that's my Eclipse build popup in that second image if you're wondering.

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