I tried editing my post yesterday, and the submit button wouldn't turn green. Nothing happened. I refreshed the page, and it was still unedited. I couldn't do anything.

Same on the Cooking forum, a member tried to edit her post, and it wouldn't let her.

Oh, it’s that someone can’t edit their original post? Ugh.

Yes, please do!

I often use it to correct typos, grammar or to clarify my comments and I really appreciate having the edit function.

I do like the recent update that shows when a comment has been updated.

How ironic. I want to change the last word in my last sentence to 'edited' and I can't do it!

It happens to me every now and then as well.

Just had that happen to me:

Me too. I misspelled a word and when I went back to edit it, the submit button "greyed out".

So far my fix for the new no edit feature is to delete my post and repost.

I haven't been able to edit since Tuesday. I'm just assuming that you guys are all mindreaders and read around my mistakes and know what I want to say. by filling in the gaps.

One of those random Houzz glitches that seem to pop up with alarming frequency! I have been able to edit my comments without issue. But I only access this site via GardenWeb, not Houzz, and only via my laptop. And that seems to eliminate most of glitches for me.

I use a desktop and couldn't edit on Monday or Tuesday of this last week. I thought it was just me. :) Am going to give it a try now. Testing, testing.

Nope, didn't work. I meant to add that I also also access this site through googling "gardenweb kitchen table."

I'm using a laptop and can't edit either.

Most annoying...I too will copy the post, paste into a new post, make the change, submit, then delete the old one.

Happened to me the first time several days ago. Glad I'm not the only one...

Me too!

A while back there was a problem with the edit option and finally they got it fixed now some one has screwed it up again.

I couldn’t edit the other day, but it’s back to normal now. Same with photos. I could not add any photo yesterday but all seems ok today. Sometimes photos are slow to load and appear greyed out for a minute but eventually do load.

Is it back to normal?

Not for me, this was a test. Needed to make a second post and delete the first, as described above.

For me once it started it happened with all attempts to submit edits and still hasn't let up.

I'm not using a phone.

I didn't start having the issue until they pushed Windows 10 out to my desktop at work. Now I can't edit using Chrome but I can using Internet Explorer.

I am using android phone and as of yesterday I was not able to edit so it is not fixed.

Just tried to edit above post and not able to. Not fixed.

I cannot edit regardless of which browser, forum, or equipment I'm using. I often leave a word out of a sentence, even if I reread before posting. Sigh. I'll just have to assume you know what I mean when I leave off a word, or misspell one.

I just tried editing a comment in the test forum.

On the gardenweb domain I could not edit. (Clicking Submit greyed but went nowhere.)

On the houzz domain I could edit.

It should be an easy fix for the techs if they will do it.

Edit: Same here. Could not edit from gardenweb domain. This edit is from houzz domain.

Richard, someone mentioned the same thing on another forum, that's it only happening on the gardenweb.com domain.

Oh great, because when I use the Houzz domain, I can't reply at all on my phone. So I have to choose between not editing and not replying! Come on Houzz.

In regard to "can't edit". From the comments above, it seems that someone on Houzz's staff goofed.

As I recall (when the edit function was working), there was a time limit on editing. If a post was left undisturbed for a period of time, the edit function disappeared. I don't recall the time limit. It may have been as short as 15 minutes.

Nah, not a time limit. I tried to edit a post to add some more to it immediately after I posted. Added another sentence and it just got stuck like it was trying to submit but it never did.

The time limit is only for the original post of the thread jem.

:)

Tuesday morning and I still can't edit. This really is silly.

It used to be that when you made a comment and hit post/submit it would go to a revision stage where you could reread it and then revise it if need be and then hit submit and it would then post.

I just tried to do an edit and it worked! I’m using safari on an iPad.

I only use the gardenweb platform, and so I have been unable to edit for quite some time. I am not interested in using the Houzz forum, but I guess that is the only way one can edit, if desired. I generally just want to add text to my post, and so I have just been starting a new post to add the info.

Testing. Tsting.

As people might note above on my Android phone on Garden Web I still cannot fix stuff after I post.

I also cannot post from my Android phone onto home decor which is on the Houzz side.

On home decorating conversations I can post to another thread but I cannot make a new post.

This is all on my Android phone.

On my PC so far I can do everything whether on houzz or GW.

I suddenly have Aura migraine so don't even know if I have any errors on here. Oh well. Shug

Maybe it's to try to force everyone off the GW format and onto Houzz?

Wonder why there has been zero response from Houzz? Isn't Emily the one who usually appears on this type of thread?

Everyone needs to go to the comments section and report it.

Please remind me where the comment section is? Thank you

Saw the Edit feature on Readers Paradise forum. Tried to use it but it just went grey and would not submit. Why should we be forced to use Houzz instead of Gardenweb?

"Why should we be forced to use Houzz instead of Gardenweb?"

I suspect the techs would like to not have to make double changes. Once to Houzz, then again to Gardenweb. Plus fix errors that unexpectedly crop up in Gardenweb when they make a change in Houzz.

If they both used the exact same code, changes would be easier and go more smoothly.

(They could keep the Gardenweb(dot)com domain alive. Just change Gardenweb code to match Houzz code exactly. (Or as much as possible))

An example of one of many minor differences:

On Houzz comments(within the <p> tag) are wrapped in a "div" with a "class" of "message-body new-message-body text-l"

On Gardenweb that same paragraph is wrapped in a div with a class of "commentBodyText".

Properties such a font type and size are applied to that comment though files called "Style Sheets".

So to change the font type or size on both Houzz and Gardenweb, a tech may have to edit two different style sheets.

I'm not a tech though. I'm just trying to understand why they, the techs, might like to consolidate.

To save themselves a bit of work?

Edit: Just to see if I still can.

Edit2: Above edit was a couple days ago and was done using houzz url. Today I can still edit using houzz url but still can not edit using gardenweb url.

The thing is that it used to work and now doesn't. That doesn't make sense to me. Why would something that used to work be discontinued?

Because it works on Houzz but not on GardenWeb, it’s obvious they want folks to access via Houzz, not GardenWeb.

I've been having trouble trying to edit. The "Submit" bar isn't the intense green that turns to light green after one composes and hits the button, but is light green from the start.

Son told me some time ago to compose on Word, etc., copy and post here.

Can do that at library, but if possible from phone I haven't learned how.

ole joyful

Joyful I compose on a text to myself then copy and paste when done. You can text to your own cell phone number. I use the voice to text feature so have carefully read what is written down.

Sometimes I still make mistakes. If I post and want to correct I copy my post by choosing a word with my finger then dragging my finger over the rest of my words.

Once I've chosen everything I want to copy I hit the copy button that pops up. I then delete my post paste my post in the text box and fix my errors. Then I post again. hope that helps.

PS the librarians are super helpful at my branch with even cell phone queries.

Lars what probably happened is they were changing something on the page and in the process accidentally made a change to the code for the edit feature. At one time they were adding a sale banner to the top and they screwed up the code to something else on the site. Bad coding.

I just successfully edited a post! It might be fixed :-)

Never mind! It worked on HD conversations but I tried to edit my post above and no go....grrr.

If it helps, I noticed that the edit function works just fine in the initial post...but not in the subsequent ones.

I still struggle, however, to post a pic in the initial post, but can in subsequent ones.