Editor Console/Terminal panel rendering issue across all courses

freeCodeCamp Support
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I’m experiencing a consistent UI issue with the code editor across all courses.

The right-side Console/Terminal panel is filled with repeated “w” characters (e.g. “wwwwwwww…”) which overlap the terminal output and error messages. The terminal does appear to run in the background, but the output is mostly unreadable due to this rendering issue.

Important details:

  • This happens on all courses and challenges

  • Occurs across multiple browsers (Chrome, Firefox)

  • Occurs on multiple devices

  • Hard refresh, resetting challenges, disabling extensions, and logging in from different devices did not resolve the issue

  • The problem started recently

I’ve attached a screenshot showing the issue.

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Hey, as you can see, the subject has already been opened. See more here.

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the terminal is still showing the output, but I noticed that the text is in white

if you could switch to dark mode you would still be able to see the terminal output

this is being worked on and will be fixed soon

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Hey, I just updated my code and this happent.

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As you can see, the terminal turned completely black. I don’t know if it is only my PC, or if you knew it already. Thank you for working hard on fixing this.

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can you reload the page? or do you maybe have extensions that affect the color of the page?

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@Jarvis_T @ILM

I’ve had this happening as well. Saving the code and doing an F5 refresh of the page got it working again but then it was blank and not updating again soon after.

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I saw your comment on github, it can’t be related to the fix, the fix is not even merged yet, if you want to comment on the issue I can reopen it, it was to avoid people asking “Can I work on this?”

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True I thought of this after I posted.

It still might be related to what needs to be fixed though. I guess we can wait and see what issues remain if that fix goes through. If those problem remain a new Issue can be opened.

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I am facing the similar issue on my side even after re-login 4-5 times, also some times it is not saving the my progress.

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So when I reload the page, if the code isn’t in error, it prints WWWW for a few seconds and then it turns black. If the code is in error, it prints WWWW and the normal output. Here is a picture (I switched to night mode) :

Note that the error prints only when the page is saved and refreshed, but not if the terminal already turned black.

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Similar to what I experienced. That doesn’t seem to be happening now though, for me, so maybe it’s intermittent or dependant on something else

Terminal in Labs and Workshops
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I am in the same boat:

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Hello @samortal , welcome to freeCodeCamp !

This seems to be a completely different problem. We were talking about Python terminal, but you are having some issues with CSS (I think) and you’re not even on the freeCodeCamp website. You should probably create a different post.

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I didn’t test it after I send you my last message (19h ago), but now it doesn’t work :sob:

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sorry i should have probably added some detail - I have also been getting the same error whilst learning Python and when i inspected the popout terminal that was the error that was displayed. if it’s unrelated i’ll quiet down

I’ve had this error since earlier this week (across Firefox and Chrome) - i’ve only just reached a development task that requires me to debug using the terminal hence im now stuck

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@pkdvalis Could you share which project you’ve been working on? Maybe it’s a specific workshop that causes this black bug. I’ve been testing the recently added Build a Movie Ticket Booking Calculator workshop, and I’m not getting anymore this black bug.

I’m currently working on Implement the N-Queens Problem (this is where I got the black terminal).

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I don’t understand. You said :

I have also been getting the same error whilst learning Python

which error are you talking about ? Is it the “WWWWWW”, the completely black terminal or a different issue ?

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yes same issue

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I think everyone is getting the same problem. If you want, you can switch to night mod so that you see the output (the text is in white). The staff is currently working on a fix.