I have a PC I often use to visit this site and for some reason the buttons (such as code tags) do not work for me using this machine.I am using IE and I have been through the preferences but can find no options that seem to be responsible for disabling these buttons.I have tried manually inpputing code tags but it does not help.Is this a known problem and can you tell me why it is happening?Thanks

This site requires Javascript, if it's blocked by your provider, your computer, or browser a lot of the features will not work.

Thanks

Guess that's it, although Java is enabled in the internet options....

JavaScript != Java

You don't need JavaScript enabled to manually enter code tags:

Code tag output(s) are created by PHP and HTML (not JavaScript).

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Test:

I turned off JavaScript in my browser ..... The buttons in the edit (code tags, quote tags, smiles) do not work.

However, I can manually enter code:

and manually enter quotes:

So, you can see that having Javascript enabled or disabled does not effect manually entering bbcode tags.