hi! I am using the sketchy MCAT card deck and it displays code extremely distractingly, and I can’t really maneuver the cards accurately because of the code displays? I’m sure this isn’t supposed to be there but I can’t figure out how to make it normal. Any tips or help much appreciated! Attached is a screenshot for reference:
- Is it that exact sequence of characters on every card? It looks like a typo in the HTML that makes the card.
- Has this been happening since you first imported the deck, or did it start happening later?
- Have you made any modifications to the card templates?
If this is a deck from the shared decks site, and it’s been happening since the start, and you haven’t modified anything – you should contact the deck author and have them fix it.
If you edited the template yourself and there’s a chance you made the typo, you should go to the part of the template you edited and look for that text.
Without knowing more about the template, it looks like you deleted something that was right before this text, and missed part of it. The --> at the beginning looks like the end of a comment tag. Try deleting just those characters (leave // as the first characters on that line) and see if that solves the issue.
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Hi! This errant sequence of characters is on every card of a 3300 card deck. I didn’t touch anything on any of the cards or templates/haven’t made any modifications and it’s been happening since I imported the deck. (it’s called “Sketchy for MCAT”) I just now downloaded the MileDown Kaplan deck and that one seems to be working fine in comparison thankfully!
The thing is many other people have used the Sketchy for MCAT deck and have left reviews, so i’m not sure if it’s an issue with preferences on my Anki or if i have something weird going on in the settings of Anki? Then again if MileDown works it must be that deck…
Going to try to delete the characters before “//” and will update if that does anything. Is it possible to do it for all 3300 cards at once or would i have to go in manually and do this for every card do you think? Thanks SO much!
That’s pretty good evidence that it’s caused by the templates, and not by text in the notes.
Is this deck from our public shared deck site? (I haven’t been able to find a deck with that name – https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks?search=Sketchy%20for%20MCAT .) Did you get this deck from some other primary source? Or did it come shared privately from another user (perhaps with typos in the note type due to them)?
I’m not aware of a way this could be caused by your own settings.
My suggestion was to edit the code in the card templates – the directions that Anki follows to create cards from your notes – not in each note. Changing the template changes every card made from that template. Make sure you understand about note types and card types . Getting Started - Anki Manual
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