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TDK
August 12, 2026
Question

"Send" button grayed out while editing a post

I was trying to edit my post here:

https://community.st.com/feedback-forum-118/inconsistent-presentation-of-links-167657?postid=747370#post747370

 

After inserting images and links and stuff, the “Send” button was grayed out. I had to hit “Cancel”, edit the post again, redo everything, and hit send (which was not grayed out this time). No indication as to why it was grayed out.

 

7 replies

Andrew Neil
Super User
August 12, 2026

I have also seen this happen

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work.
Zita LASZLOFI
ST Community Manager
August 14, 2026

Hi both ​@TDK and ​@Andrew Neil 

Thank you for flagging this. I reached out to our platform provider. I will keep you informed on this thread. 

Kind Regards, 
Zita

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Zita LASZLOFI
ST Community Manager
August 20, 2026

Hi both. Thank you for your patience. 

We found that it usually happens while the text editor is still loading, in this case it is probably related to the image uploads. For further investigation we would need more samples, so please let us know if you experience this again. 

Kind Regards, 
Zita

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TDK
TDKAuthor
September 22, 2026
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Andrew Neil
Super User
October 12, 2026

Have just had this happen again to me:

The inserted pictures were all showing fine in the editor.

I had to copy & paste into a new editor to make the post:

 

I also had a couple of these:

 

Looks like there’s a performance issue on the server, and it does not fail gracefully.

See also:

 

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work.
Andrew Neil
Super User
October 12, 2026

Just happened again - this time in a reply:

In this case, the ‘Send’ button has its disabled, light-yellow colour - it doesn’t go grey when disabled.

It should look like this:

 

Again, I had to abandon the reply, and start again from scratch:

 

 

PS:

If I try to leave the web page - without pressing ‘Cancel’ - I do get the warning:

 

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work.
Andrew Neil
Super User
October 14, 2026

and again just now:

 

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work.