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Who sniped the snippet?
I am trying to ask a question on Stack Overflow but the code snippet button is missing for some reason.
Expecting this
Currently Available
How can I bring back the code snippet?
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After the move to Denver Stacksnippets.net is offline
After the move of all services to Denver it was tweeted that there was some performance degradation. Initial reports showed that at least chat search seemded to be the victim of that.
I would like to ...
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Ejecutar (Run) button background is the same color of the button text: white
This is related to Submit buttons change color when hovering on non-English Stack Overflow sites, but in this case it's a problem because the button background is the same color as the button text: ...
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Code snippet link text conflicts with underline in Firefox
On my browser, the Show code snippet link for the code snippet
alert("This is some example code");
renders as follows:
It looks like the line and the text are in separate elements, allowing ...
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Snippets editor won't insert and close on SO
This just started: I went to add a snippet to an answer on SO, typed it in, clicked the Insert button, and...nothing. No error in the console, but nothing inserted in the question. Earlier today they ...
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Stacksnippets has the incorrect SSL certificate :(
As discussed here, was prompted to post it as a brand new question, so here it is :-).
Earlier today there was an issue with Stack Snippets, caused by the move to Denver. That issue was fixed, but ...
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Snippet button missing on Staging Ground question creation
I've been wondering why there is no 'create snippet' button when asking a question on Stack Overflow!
I found this meta post asking where it was 7 months ago and staff mentioned that it was being ...
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Stack Snippets are not shown properly in the review queue
Stack Snippets don't appear on posts in the review queue. Therefore, if a suggested edit adds/changes a snippet, there's no easy way for the reviewer to determine if the edit is valid. For an example, ...
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Editor in "Ask Question" page has two snippet icons
There are two snippet icons displayed in the question's body Markdown editing tool. Clicking on both icons opens the snippet section.
I am able to reproduce this on Meta Stack Exchange and Stack ...
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Clicking to reload an updated answer removes the code snippet buttons and removes syntax highlighting
If you are looking at an answer with a code snippet in it, and the answerer updates the answer, you see An edit has been made (etc.). If you click that, the answer is refreshed, but the code snippet ...
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Is there something wrong with the snippets?
I posted a question on Code Review. It did not meet the standards and was closed. I asked the same question on Stack Overflow.
While the code in Code Review produces error, the code in Stack Overflow ...
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"Run code Snippet" gives Uncaught SecurityError
I have given an answer on Stack Overflow and it is working on jsfiddle plus my local machine but people are complaining that that it doesn't work (gives any output) to them.
So I tried to check it ...
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Hiding a stack snippet does not halt execution
example:
Using setInterval with requestAnimationFrame
If you start the first snippet, then press "Hide Results", the code continues to run in the background. This means that if it's something that ...
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New code snippet causes error on submit?
StackOverflow's editor seem to have changed, or to be more precise, the settings for the snippet editor that allow to run code in questions/answers have changed. The snippets are now executed in a ...
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Code snippet comments in code formatting break the formatting of the post
When special HTML comments used for snippets are present in a post, these comments break the rendering of the post. For example, consider the following markdown code (notice that the whole thing is ...
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Snippet editor window closes even when the closing confirmation dialog is cancelled
Steps do reproduce the problem
When you are answering some question...
Click on the Code Snippet button or press CTRL+M
Click on the X at the corner or press ESC to close the window
Choose OK to ...
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500 Internal server error in stacksnippets.net
Go to http://stacksnippets.net/ or click "Run code snippet" in a stack snippet.
It says
500 - Internal server error.
There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and ...
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JavaScript code snippet Tidy function injects a separating space into the null coalesce operator
For JavaScript snippets, the Tidy feature injects a space between the question marks that compose the nullish coalescing operator ??[1].
Example:
Prior to Tidy:
console.log(((a, b) => {
return a ?...
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I cannot type certain special characters in the snippet editor
When using the snippet editor, I cannot type the following characters:
: (deletes the next word instead)
= (moves cursor forward a word instead)
I assume this is because the snippet editor uses ...
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Snippets can be formatted in monospace
Example answer with bug.
By indenting the snippet generating comments, you can make a pretty odd snippet style, where the button titles are shown in a monospaced font.
let test = "Hello, world!";...
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A small problem when using "Tidy" to format JS in the "Code Sandbox" if the code uses "dynamic import"
When creating an answer to the question, I drew attention to the incorrect formatting of the JS code via "Tidy" in "Code Snippet" when using "dynamic import" in the code.
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Really long text exposes stack snippet bug
I was just editing a question on Stack Overflow that included an over abundance of lorem ipsum and found a bug in the Stack Snippet tool...
If you dump 2 long lines, like really obnoxiously long lines,...
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Why is there a script error in all Stack Snippets?
I am not sure whether this has been asked before or not, or if anyone else has this problem. I get this "script error" everytime I execute any script in the code snippet tool of Stack Overflow. I have ...
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Typo in Stack Snippets: "Javascript" should be "JavaScript"
That's not a pluralization bug, so I shouldn't expect Jeff coming to my house with a giant "S", right?
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Stack Snippet is not supported on mobile devices - time to reconsider it
There have been a couple of cases when I wanted to write an answer on my iPhone and ran into non-working stack snippets editor, only to be greeted with magnificent error: not supported on mobile. Well,...
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Snippet CSS content is corrupting the console display
I have encountered a bug in the Stack Overflow snippet interface. I have created a div and wrote some css in the CSS section for the same. I noticed that the div CSS content is affecting the console ...
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JavaScript snippet containing multiple dollar signs is corrupted [duplicate]
As part of https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7848/163, I posted a stack snippet that uses jQuery and ran into a problem. Take for example the following snippet:
!-- begin snippet: js hide: ...
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Stack Snippets console message formatting fails at interpreting a doubled percent sign
Both of the lines below, using the console message formatting syntax, are supposed to print "%" to the console twice, and they indeed do in the native developer consoles of Chromium, Firefox ...
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Indenting interactive interpreter invokes interesting interactions [duplicate]
Stack Snippets still attempt to be rendered when indented or within code fences.
This behaviour was first observed "in the wild" on this (now deleted) answer on Stack Overflow and in ...
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Inline diff view in revision history breaks runnable code snippets
When viewing the inline diff view in the revision history of a post, pressing the "Run code snippet" button tries to concatenate both revisions:
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Can't run Stack code Snippets on the mobile site
Is it a known issue that stack snippets don't have the "Run code snippet" button underneath on the mobile version of the site? Searching for this yielded nothing, both on MSE and MSO.
I've posted a ...
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Snippet body is partially clipped/obscured in the snippet editor [closed]
Stack Snippets on SO apparently got some CSS changes (at least), which unfortunately cause part of the snippet body to be clipped/obscured in the snippet editor, at least on Chrome (v51.0.2704.79 on ...
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How do I force Stack Snippets to render as a code block?
Usually, posting blocks of code on Stack Exchange websites is very simple:
You can indent everything by 4 spaces.
Both lines are indented by 4 spaces.
or
```
You can start and end the code ...
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Indented Stack Snippets don’t render well
This Markdown:
- foo
if (Math.random() < 0.5) {
console.log("hello, world!");
} else {
console.log("goodbye, cruel world!");
}
Renders as:
foo
>
> ...
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Links overlap on snippets
With certain screen widths, the “Hide results” and “Full page” links on snippets overlap (e.g. here, you need to run the code snippet to repro)
Using a smaller or bigger width makes the page ...
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Make the page non-scrollable when editing a stack snippet
When editing in the Stack Snippet editor the page is still scroll-able. In my opinion it would be more user-friendly and more normal from an UX standpoint if the body would get an overflow:hidden when ...
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Appearance of HTML and CSS snippet is changing when it is indented
Today I was editing this question to change the formatting of its code into a runnable snippet. Once I configured the snippet, Stack Overflow would not let me submit my question because it thought ...
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Snippets in nested list items break nesting in post preview
Similar to "Why aren't runnable code snippets formatted correctly within lists?" (which appears to be resolved), when a snippet is in an item in a nested markdown list, it breaks the nesting....
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If you run a code snippet, a hat still appears (hats are above snippets in the Z-order) [duplicate]
If you run a code snippet, a hat still appears.
Steps to repro:
Go to a question where there is a snippet and where the OP wear a hat
well, if you find that hard, just go here. rowspan not changing ...
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Increase min-height on SE code snippets to prevent scrollbar from blocking code [duplicate]
When using Stack Exchange/Stack Overflow, anytime there's a one-line code snippet with a horizontal scrollbar, the majority of the code becomes covered.
I am using Chrome v72.0.3626.109.
Looks ...
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Vertical scroll bar overlaps top static bar
In attached image, Vertical scrollbar just overlaps when code snippets is too big and am scrolling up on code snippet area that time vertical scroll will overlap to top static bar.
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Snippet editor for touch devices can be opened if you show perseverance
Opening a code snippet editor via the button from the toolbar cannot be used on touch screen devices like my iPad, i.e. I see the following notice:
But occasionally tapping code snippet button ...
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Stack snippets external library function reverses order
When adding external libraries to a stack snippet the <script> element is inserted before the already existing elements. So if you want to include a library which depends on another one you have ...
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While undeleting deleted answer, the snippet seems missing
Yesterday I made an answer to this question Why does width and height affect how a flex item is rendered?. I got some downvotes and so I decided to check am I missed something. I temporarily deleted ...
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Closing the Stack Snippet editor doesn't refocus the textarea
To reproduce:
Click Ask Question and focus the question body textarea
Press Ctrl + M
Hit the X and confirm that you do not want to "abandon any changes."
Immediately press Ctrl + M again.
No snippet ...
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NoScript XSS protection for code snippets
The feature:
The text editor allows code snippets to be submitted as a sandbox like JSFiddle. I'm referring to the button that reads:
JavaScript/HTML/CSS snippet Ctrl-M
...rather than:
Code ...
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Getting JS Error while clicking Copy Snippet to answer
To answer this question, I hit "Copy Snippet To Answer" button. But nothing happened. So that I checked my console and found below error.
I did hard refresh and checked for the same, still getting ...
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Broken view after expanding a snippet
Find a post with Stack Snippet (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) and go for "Expand snippet", for example this one.
I got this strange view on Chrome 70 (Windows 10):
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Stack Snippet editor doesn't close with the background fade
While I was answering a question on Stack Overflow I wanted to insert a snippet... but then I changed my mind and pressed on the grayed out space near the snippet window (without releasing the mouse, ...
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The code snippet window sometimes doesn't close
The code snippet window sometimes doesn't close. Below is an example of this issue on SO with Chrome + Windows 10 when I was writing a question, which prevented me from continuing to write the ...
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