I recently updated to the latest forum system and discovered a great new feature: the addition of the [grid] code. When I drag multiple photos into the text editor, the [grid] code is automatically filled in. This feature was not available before. Previously, displaying multiple photos in a post wou…

Auto gridding is still in place. You need to upload 3 images or more at once for the automatic tag to apply. If you just upload 1 image at time you will not get an auto grid. Possible user setting to disable this is being tracker here: Turning off auto-grid-images?

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Yes, this happens if you upload 1 at a time, select all the images and upload them at the same time to get a grid

I apologize for the misunderstanding due to my lack of explanation. As shown in the image, when I drag 5 photos into the text editor at the same time, the [grid] code does not automatically appear.

I see can you try the upload button? @keegan / @lindsey there may be an edge case here

Hmm, that’s odd, yes there may be an edge-case. FWIW I tried testing a few scenarios with: uploading 5 images using the upload button uploading 5 images by dragging in 5 photos at the same time uploading 5 images dragging and upload button on edit post uploading images on throttled connection an…

What browser are you using? Can you repro here? If you switch to an alternative browser does it also happen?

I am now confident that it may not be an issue with the forum system, but I am still very curious about why this is happening. I have conducted the following tests: I opened multiple browsers and found that I was unable to automatically populate the grid code. Using my regular Google Chrome browse…

Has anyone experienced a similar issue? I can confirm that only my admin account is encountering this problem. It seems that some settings are causing this issue. How can I adjust the settings to restore the [grid] code?

A bit of a late contribution, but saw this while browsing some Related Topics and thought it may be connected: :slight_smile: [image] Automatic images grid not working when locale is not set to English Bug Been trying to test this feature on our forum. I tick …

I would like to inquire about the issue of the [grid] code not auto-filling

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Moin December 10, 2025, 3:01pm 20

That component adding the buttons has been tagged as deprecated for a while

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I would like to inquire about the issue of the [grid] code not auto-filling

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