# Lost Post Formatting Options?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/lost-post-formatting-options/72761
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 25, 2017, 1:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lost-post-formatting-options/72761 "2017-10-25T13:56:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@8BIT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/8BIT)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2017, 1:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lost-post-formatting-options/72761/1 "2017-10-25T13:56:25Z")
Did the latest update remove some of the formatting options?
For instance… I use the big “page break” (solid, long bar) often in my posts… but i can’t seem to find it anywhere anymore?
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### Author:  [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2017, 2:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lost-post-formatting-options/72761/2 "2017-10-25T14:01:09Z")
Yes, it was @codinghorror‘s call that these could be removed.
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You can still create horizontal rules by typing a few `-` in a separate line 🙂
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### Author:  [@8BIT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/8BIT)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2017, 2:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lost-post-formatting-options/72761/3 "2017-10-25T14:18:45Z")
dang… i really did like those extra options…
what about an implementation a’la wordpress?
they have this nice “toggle toolbar” for more options… that expands to:
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2017, 3:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lost-post-formatting-options/72761/4 "2017-10-25T15:07:11Z")
We’re more of a “less-is-better” rather than “more-is-better” company/product 😉
But feel free to add these “options” in a plugin.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2017, 5:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lost-post-formatting-options/72761/5 "2017-10-30T05:30:38Z")
> [@zogstrip](#):
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> But feel free to add these “options” in a plugin.
I would actually prefer a theme component here, @vinothkannans can you create a theme component for adding back header options and post it in #plugin:theme ?
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### Author:  [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2017, 5:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lost-post-formatting-options/72761/7 "2017-10-30T05:46:59Z")
While removing it from core we also removed the label values from locales (like `hr_title: "Horizontal Rule"`). I guess we can’t add locale values back using theme component. So it is better to use plugin?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2017, 5:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lost-post-formatting-options/72761/8 "2017-10-30T05:49:30Z")
I still prefer a theme component, we can deal with localization in the component itself.
Just do it in English for now. If we use a plugin our hosted customers can not use it.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2017, 8:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lost-post-formatting-options/72761/9 "2017-10-30T08:50:54Z")
No, we need to revisit this. Not a fan of the current approach.
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### Author:  [@schungx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schungx)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2017, 10:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lost-post-formatting-options/72761/10 "2017-10-30T10:32:30Z")
How about keeping the buttons but `display:none` them in the default theme?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lost-post-formatting-options/72761/11 "2017-10-30T21:57:24Z")
We will revisit button customizability later, it is already doable in a theme component or a plugin if you must but think it is better just to live with the change for a bit.
The GIANT issue with the `header` button is that it is of zero use once you learned how to do headers. Typing `# test` is way easier than reaching to the mouse and clicking header. The only real purpose the button served in the past was discoverability.
Anyway we can talk about this again in a month or two after some real world use cases ideally of paying customers come our way that really demonstrate how this is needed on a regular basis.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2017, 10:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lost-post-formatting-options/72761/12 "2017-10-30T22:06:52Z")
We are also planning to add a help button which I personally think covers this and more. We need the flexboxing of the composer to get complete via @zogstrip (lots of regressions, it’s a hard area to change) then we have a minor reskin coming for the composer via @awesomerobot which may include a help button, etc.
So none of this is really necessary at the current time, things have to happen in order.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2024, 12:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lost-post-formatting-options/72761/13 "2024-06-08T12:43:59Z")
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