What does an answer look like while it's being edited?

Dunno but usually one can’t access that particular question unless you were the one who asked it. A question goes into editing if it’s not okay or if one asks for it to go there so he can edit. Don’t really know how much it can stay there but I had a few of them in edit for two weeks or so.

@Hibernate An answer, not a question. I’ve been on a question while it was sent to editing and it tells you, but what about an answer being edited by the user?

I assume to those viewing the question that the answer is in, it looks like the most recently saved version of that answer.

I am not supposed to show you this

@incendiary_dan is correct. You will not see the edited version until the user is done editing and you refresh the page.

What does a question look like when it’s being edited? Unless you’ve already answered it, you won’t see it until it “reappears”...if you have already answered it, you’ll see “This question is currently being edited”.

As for anwers, you’ll see the unedited answer until the edited answer is entered.

@XOIIO Sorry it’s late and my eyes are shuting.

Dunno. But I think in those 5 minutes when you edit a reply it just shows “X is composing”

Well, once the jelly hits the “Edit this response” button, the whole thing [REDACTED]

I just conducted an experiment. In one browser, I started editing an answer, then in another browser where I wasn’t signed in, I pulled up the question. The “outside view” simply showed the answer as it was last posted, before I began to edit. I wondered if it would be different if I were editing the last answer posted on a thread, so I tried that, too, but it also just showed as it was before I began to edit.

I wish there were a way for edited answers to change to their edited form without having to refresh the page. I have felt stupid too many times when I responded to the first version of a post that was edited as I was responding.