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Cigano
By Cigano
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press the insert button on your keyboard to make it go back to normal, this can happen on any website/anytime you are typing on a computer you are most likely hitting a button or something to active it.

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WTF is this orange cursor that types over words that doesn't let you type normally. Every post i type on this site it' a pain in the ass i just want a normal black single spaced cursor instead of one that functions the way this one does on this site.   

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press the insert button on your keyboard to make it go back to normal, this can happen on any website/anytime you are typing on a computer you are most likely hitting a button or something to active it.

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2 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

I've never come across that on the site. Could you take a sceenshot of it and post it?

 

EDIT: Nevermind. Try pressing the ins (insert) key on your keyboard.

 

2 minutes ago, shmoochie said:

press the insert button on your keyboard to make it go back to normal, this can happen on any website/anytime you are typing on a computer you are most likely hitting a button or something to active it.

interesting I'll give that a shot I just have never run into this before on anything else and it happens constantly on this site. I'm not even sure how I could be accidentally hitting it this often but thanks!

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1 minute ago, Cigano said:

 

interesting I'll give that a shot I just have never run into this before on anything else and it happens constantly on this site. I'm not even sure how I could be accidentally hitting it this often but thanks!

i had this happen to me many times and I had no idea how then I just pressed every button to figure out what I hit and it was insert

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It happens to me occasionally, i just refresh the page.

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2 minutes ago, shmoochie said:

i had this happen to me many times and I had no idea how then I just pressed every button to figure out what I hit and it was insert

 

Just now, jimkirk363 said:

It happens to me occasionally, i just refresh the page.

It was blowing my mind I couldn't figure out what was happening lmao 

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Yah insert will switch from insert mode to overtype mode where it replaces over existing text.

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