Recently, you may have started, in Post Editor, to create or edit a post, and found that entering the title to the post wasn't obviously possible. You go to click in the Title box, to put the cursor in there and start typing, but the cursor isn't clickable when positioned there. This has also been observed as a problem in the Link box, though that is used so rarely that reports of this problem will be rare.
Instead of positioning the mouse pointer in the vertical center of the Title (or Link) box, as is normal, you have to move the pointer upwards very carefully. With the pointer positioned just below the top edge of the box, the pointer will turn into the standard insert icon, and you can click in the box, and start typing.
This has been observed in both Firefox and Internet Explorer. You won't solve (workaround) this by changing to another browser, or by clearing cache and cookies.
It's the weekend, and this is a fairly simple and non-intrusive workaround (unlike the one for the bX-mzm63b error). I'm betting that this won't be fixed for a few days, so we better get used to it.
Other folks are seeing this problem in the edit windows for HTML / JavaScript / Text page element widgets, where the formatting toolbar, and the link to switch between Rich Text and HTML, is totally inoperative. No moving the cursor gets any of the toolbar objects, or the link, to work. This pretty much leaves the page element editor useless.
>> (Update 7/9 11:15): Blogger Employee tells us
>> (Update 7/9 13:00): Blogger Status advises us
>> (Update 7/10 17:30): Blogger Employee tells us
>> (Update 7/11 13:00): Looks like this has finally been fixed.
>> Forum thread links: bX-*00056
>> Copy this tag: bX-*00056
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Instead of positioning the mouse pointer in the vertical center of the Title (or Link) box, as is normal, you have to move the pointer upwards very carefully. With the pointer positioned just below the top edge of the box, the pointer will turn into the standard insert icon, and you can click in the box, and start typing.
This has been observed in both Firefox and Internet Explorer. You won't solve (workaround) this by changing to another browser, or by clearing cache and cookies.
It's the weekend, and this is a fairly simple and non-intrusive workaround (unlike the one for the bX-mzm63b error). I'm betting that this won't be fixed for a few days, so we better get used to it.
Other folks are seeing this problem in the edit windows for HTML / JavaScript / Text page element widgets, where the formatting toolbar, and the link to switch between Rich Text and HTML, is totally inoperative. No moving the cursor gets any of the toolbar objects, or the link, to work. This pretty much leaves the page element editor useless.
>> (Update 7/9 11:15): Blogger Employee tells us
It seems that this issue is a result of a fix we pushed out on Friday. We're working on fixing things up as soon as we can.
>> (Update 7/9 13:00): Blogger Status advises us
Some users are reporting that they are unable to enter titles for their posts. We are currently investigating this problem and working on a fix.
>> (Update 7/10 17:30): Blogger Employee tells us
We're almost finished w/ the fix for this issue, which means it should be out shortly (I give it one day max).
>> (Update 7/11 13:00): Looks like this has finally been fixed.
>> Forum thread links: bX-*00056
>> Copy this tag: bX-*00056
>> Top
Comments
Thanks.
Deb
http://deb-leger.blogspot.com/
Thanks Again!
http://cheesewoods.blogspot.com/
It worked for me. You are our hero..
It's the weekend, and there is a workaround, so I don't see them burning any midnite oil over it. We'll just have to wait this one out, and keep informing new victims.
Cat
thank you thank you
I've been having trouble for longer than four days, maybe a week. Sometimes it's just the title field, other times the controls in the title bar don't work. I use several browsers, locations and machines, so it does seem to depend on which Google/blogger server I happen to hit.
At least you got Blogger Help to contact you. I've still not gotten a response from several e-mails abotu a major problem encountered during a live blog when Blogger's anti-spam posting locked myself and my colleagues from adding new posts during a live blog of the Oscars.
Funny that, Blogger not having heard of or planning to accomodate live bloggers. One wonders if they actually have a clue sometimes.
Lovely idea for a product, but the execution leaves much to be desired. Hope they get the bugs out.
kiss
Thank you for this Blog, my new favorite, no joke here.
keep on learning
If you just upgraded, you probably have security settings that you have to check.