Emoticons

[AmigOne]

Why is it that I do not have access to the emoticons? What else do I need to turn on because under Post Options "Enable emoticons" is checked

[Bob_Belville]

When I click into the reply area 2 lines of heading appear. The top line includes selection of fonts and font size. The second line has formating icos: bold, italics, strike thru, etc.

 

The emoticons are in the middle of the top line between "text color" and "my media".

 

Are you seeing headings?

[Marauder]

 

[Bob_Belville]

 

               

Good idea? Save this note and cut/paste,

[AmigOne]

I see the emoticon but shaded, like they are not available

[Marauder]

I see the emoticon but shaded, like they are not available

 

Any chance you are using a non-English keyboard? Or a keyboard setup to support international languages? Some of those don't support the characters needed for the emoticons.

[Bob_Belville]

Are the rest of the icons available? Fonts, etc.? If I click the very first icon it reverts to plain text mode.

[carusoam]

Depends on the day and the hardware you use...

iPad 1

[Bob_Belville]

I just was inserting an emoticon in another thread and noticed that when I clicked on the icon that the string of choices appear below the typing space and if you're near the bottom of the computer screen you have to scroll down to see them. 

 

Is it possible that's all it is for you?

[tony]

I find for me, I have to run internet explorer in compatibility mode.  Go to tools, then compatibility..  see if that helps.

[Hank]

Here on my iPad mini, I have neither text options nor emoticons. Annoying.

[Hank]

Don't see them here on my Samsung phone, either. The "enable" box is checked, but no emoticons or text options. They're both usable via Explorer, along with fractions and symbols like for degrees. Nothing for these on either mobile platform, no italics or bolding, just CAPS and normal.

[Marauder]

Here on my iPad mini, I have neither text options nor emoticons. Annoying.

Hmmmm... On my iPad Mini I don't see them either. I see the keyboard ones, wonder if they work

[AmigOne]

I operate the Apple iMac with Mozilla and standard english keyboard. No other text like font, size, bold, etc are available. Apparently I am not the only one, interesting.

[Hank]

Back on the iPad mini again. Quick reply, no text options or faces. Oh, look, there are. One on the keyboard, just letters, numbers and common symbols and a second page of symbols.

Going to "More Reply Options," there is still no text options or emoticons. Keyboard has the same three options. Where do you see "the keyboard ones"?? And how can I make this stupid thing type in. Old or italics? I'm used to having a Ctrl key, but Apple thinks we don't need them.

[Marauder]

I operate the Apple iMac with Mozilla and standard english keyboard. No other text like font, size, bold, etc are available. Apparently I am not the only one, interesting.

I know some browsers like Mozilla and FireFox behave differently than IE and Safari with certain websites. Have you tried Safari on your Mac and see what happens? There may be some option that need to turn on your Mozilla.

[Marauder]

Back on the iPad mini again. Quick reply, no text options or faces. Oh, look, there are. One on the keyboard, just letters, numbers and common symbols and a second page of symbols.

Going to "More Reply Options," there is still no text options or emoticons. Keyboard has the same three options. Where do you see "the keyboard ones"?? And how can I make this stupid thing type in. Old or italics? I'm used to having a Ctrl key, but Apple thinks we don't need them.

Hank - do these show up on your iPad:

[carusoam]

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[fantom]

[Marauder]

Hmmmm... On my iPad Mini I don't see them either. I see the keyboard ones, wonder if they work

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Well, that didn't work. Doesn't look like anything like this on my iPad with Tapatalk.

[AmigOne]

I give up, thanks for the suggestions anyways.

[Marauder]