Tags seem to be forced to lowercase. When I try to create a tag with uppercase letters, like DomainInvesting, it automatically gets saved and displayed as domaininvesting. Periods (.) seem to be stripped from tags. I tried to create tags for specific domain extensions. For example, when I entered t…

[image] nwnuyhs: Tags seem to be forced to lowercase That depends on the Force lowercase tags site setting. [Screenshot_20250907_091524_Firefox]

I set this option to unchecked, but the label still converted to lowercase by default. Why is that?

Welcome to Meta :wave: Where do you create the tag? In the composer? On the tags page?

i try to set the default tag on the sidebar, on the page: admin>Default navigation menu tags [image] btw, i can not create a tag on the /Tags page, i don’t know why, cause i am the owner of the forum. [image]

You cannot create new tags in the site settings, so to add a tag to default navigation menu tags you need to add it to a topic or create it on the tags page first. Your problem on the tags page is that you haven’t entered anything. You cannot create a tag without an input.

Is it possible to allow periods and uppercase letters in tags?

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Moin September 7, 2025, 7:19am 2

That depends on the Force lowercase tags site setting.

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Is it possible to allow periods and uppercase letters in tags?

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