# Editing a deleted topic is broken

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-a-deleted-topic-is-broken/26811>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [26 Marzo 2015, 10:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-a-deleted-topic-is-broken/26811 "2015-03-26T10:11:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![savef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/savef/32/115698_2.png) [@savef](https://meta.discourse.org/u/savef)\
**Post date:** [26 Marzo 2015, 10:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-a-deleted-topic-is-broken/26811/1 "2015-03-26T10:11:39Z")

</div>

Two things that are broken:

- Editing a deleted topic gives you a modal which is blank.
- The post on the page is updated with the edit changes, but these changes are not on the server.

Steps to replicate:

- Create a new topic.
- Delete that topic.
- Edit the post.
- Notice a blank modal appears when you hit save.
- Undelete the post.
- Notice the changes you made in your edit appear to be live.
- Hit F5 to see that the edits you made were not saved.

Fixes:

- The modal after editing your deleted post should say “your edits cannot be saved”.
- The post’s content on your screen should not be updated.

Alternatively the forum could just allow changes to deleted topics and not show a modal.

I can replicate this on my own forum, I attempted to do it on [sandbox](http://try.discourse.org/) too but I can’t delete my topics there so I wasn’t able.

Editing a deleted post doesn’t give a modal, and does seem to update the real post.

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-a-deleted-topic-is-broken/26811)._