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In the past few days, has anyone noticed our page layouts being dramatically broken anywhere? We have gotten some reports that some pages aren’t rendering properly at all, but we don’t yet have enough information to either confirm or fix this problem. If you see anything wrong could you help us by reporting this issue here or emailing me at jack “at” wikiHow.com . Bonus points if you include information like this when you let us know about the problem: * Take a screenshot (Learn how here: http://www.wikihow.com/Take-a-Screenshot-in-Microsoft-Windows or http://www.wikihow.com/Take-a-Screenshot-in-Mac-OS-X ) * Let us know the browser and OS you are working on * Extra bonus points if you can send us the HTML file the browser has. You can get this by “viewing source” and copying and pasting it. In Chrome, this is under the view menu in the developer set of options. Thanks! Hoping we can fix whatever issues we have quickly.

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I’m not sure if this is what you mean by something “badly broken”, but I have noticed this on lots of articles, and it gets rather annoying. ---- Problems: Broken sub-header; sub header above where it should be Example link: http://www.wikihow.com/Cut-a-Bell-Pepper Screenshot:Computer/Browser: Ubuntu (Macbuntu); Google Chrome ---- EDITED: I’m just going to email @JackHerrick the view page source info, as it’s too long to put in here.:slight_smile:

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I’ve encountered the same as Isabelle on several articles, will post details if I get anything similar. Also, I’ve had many flukes on wikiHow, but I wasn’t sure if they were wikiHow’s problem or not.

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I have talked with Chris about buttons not working, for example, the skip button in Special:Patrol was taking me to the home page, and images wouldn’t load, but they seem resolved this afternoon.

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Isabelle Zita - you should copy the view page source from the messed up page that you take a screenshot of. Thanks!

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No(t yet)

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Just saw this in NFD Guardian. Will post a bug report.

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From work… the issue I saw yesterday seems to have not repeated itself today, so I can’t post pics. Sorry.

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Not sure if this is related, or even a bug… but a link acted very oddly in RC today. I was patrolling this edit in the RC app: diff: http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Started-in-Parkour-or-Free-Running?oldid=6512318&diff=6660980 Screenshot: http://bit.ly/nlfRgY I scrolled down to the TOC, and decided to open one to the links in a new tab. I clicked “Self Exploration” but when the new tab opened, I got this: Screenshot: http://bit.ly/q5J1sy Diff: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Snow-Hangout?oldid=6617460&diff=6661024 Instead of the article, it was another edit in the RC app that opened up. I had opened up the new tab by clicking both my mouse buttons at once, not by right clicking. I use Chrome on Windows 7. And here is the link to the source code. I hope it is the right page! http://bit.ly/oqBAZ4 Like I said, I’m not sure if this is related to the broken pages. Perhaps it actually has something to do with the new fancy scrolling in the TOC, but all I know is that this has never happened before. Whenever I opened new tabs from RC, they opened the article normally.

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@Isabelle Zita This was not broken. These overlapping of images happen while using “Section heading” (=== Other way ===). This thing can be made correct by using “``”.

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Well, not quite. Here’s what happens when I use breaks.

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@Isabelle Zita yeah then we can say that as broken. But it may be corrected, because I don’t get it now.

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I do see Isabelle’s issue as well. In my sandbox I’m working on my latest article, and temporarily have the steps in === Steps === format. Since it’s an article, I have some pictures in there too. Here’s what I see.

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I use the latest version of Chrome on a Windows 7 laptop if it helps. When I switch the format of the Steps tab to == Steps ==, I don’t see the problem anymore. Here’s a link to my sandbox if you need it. http://www.wikihow.com/User:AndrewG1999/Sandbox
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Occasionally, I get TERRIBLE rendering problems. In these cases, when I loaded a wikiHow page, the browser appears to be an infinite “Transferring data from pad1.whstatic.com ” state. Refreshing just makes a different rendering error, only hard refreshing (clearing cache, refreshing) seems to work.

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Then, after refreshing, I got this:Hard-refreshing temporarily suppresses this problem, it only occurs once in a while. I haven’t experienced this with any other website. Firefox 6, Windows 7
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@SudoKing - Thanks for letting us know about the issue you’ve been experiencing. Could you give me a rough idea on when you started experiencing the problem and when the last time you had a rendering problem like the screenshot you posted? That will help in narrowing down what the problem might be.

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@Jordansmall - I have been noticing a small rendering issue with extremely long pages such as here . The background colors mix in with the foreground.