Can't delete remnants of a discarded post; where is the code view?

[attrayant]

I changed my mind and decided not to submit a post I had composed.  Now, when I open the same thread, the form "helpfully" remembers the post I composed but didn't send.  I tried to select/delete everything but that only works for the text.  I still have empty quote boxes in the post window.  Even when I click on the 'quote' link in a different post, the reply box opens up with the wrong poster in the quote tags.  In the image below, how can I delete the quote tags that come up automatically when I want to start a new post?

 

1. How can I tell the forum software to discard this post?

 

2. Where is the control to switch to the code editor, so that I can delete the tags and other things manually?  In many cases editing the code is much quicker and easier than fighting with the GUI editor.

 

[JetsetBkk]

Hover your mouse over the unwanted quoted post and a box like this will appear in the top left corner:

 

Move the mouse over it, click it and hit 'delete'. It will go away.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 25, 2016 by JetsetBkk

[Maestro]

The code view has been disabled, as it was impractical in the new version which no longer uses BBCode but HTML instead.

[attrayant]

On 9/25/2016 at 1:25 PM, JetsetBkk said:

Hover your mouse over the unwanted quoted post and a box like this will appear in the top left corner:

 

Move the mouse over it, click it and hit 'delete'. It will go away.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That didn't work at first.  I had to post the empty reply, then go back to edit it.  It feel like one has to know all the secret tricks to posting now, which before used to be second nature.

 

Shame about losing the code view.  Even in HTML, somethings are so easy to tweak compared to wrestling with the GUI.

[attrayant]

Ah, I see.  Just hovering over the cross hairs isn't enough.  You have to over and click on them, then hit delete.

 

[edit - which I now see you did say]

Edited September 26, 2016 by attrayant

[attrayant]

[deleting this as somehow I managed to post and quote myself in a second reply]

Edited September 26, 2016 by attrayant

[JetsetBkk]

15 minutes ago, attrayant said:

Ah, I see.  Just hovering over the cross hairs isn't enough.  You have to over and click on them, then hit delete.

 

[edit - which I now see you did say]

 

 

Yes, sometimes you don't have to click it, sometimes you do! So I added the "click it" to my post just to make sure!