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Idea: Trust me when I edit HTML

  1. mendezki
    Member

    Oooh this formatting drives me completely wild!
    Back in HTML-mode, sigh..
    Great stuff, though, really, but the formatting...

    Posted: 2 years ago #
  2. erlendds
    Member

    yea, right on

    Posted: 2 years ago #
  3. Actually, I'm making progress toward correcting the problem in my own installation... see my post on the subject. My current solution is a radical attack on wpautop() and cleanpre(), which is suboptimal but satisfies my immediate blood^H^H^H^H^Hcodelust and does, in fact, allow me to write some pretty gross HTML and get it into my blog.

    Ironically, the widget that checks the validity of posts ate an important part of my original post. The thing that shouldn't be taken for a bad link is an anchor, of which I gave an example.

    Posted: 2 years ago #
  4. erlendds
    Member

    After some thought, this really bugs me. There's a reason to have the option to write html in posts and pages. When they restrict the use of html in the html editor, the entire point of having it disappears.
    This really bugs me

    Posted: 2 years ago #
  5. lokjah
    Member

    Hearty Thumbs Up!

    Posted: 2 years ago #
  6. oh dear god, yes!

    there's a temporary workaround:
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/102799?replies=6

    but adding HTML to a post should not be that hard.

    Posted: 2 years ago #
  7. Of course! An option to allow advanced users edit HTML as they want. Their's a** is frying, anyway ;-)

    Posted: 2 years ago #
  8. This would be an absolute godsend, and makes much more sense than the current system in my opinion!

    Posted: 2 years ago #
  9. This lack of free HTLM editing is just a serious drawback of wp. Please put at list an admin option to overcome this constraint.

    Posted: 2 years ago #
  10. I completely agree.

    Posted: 2 years ago #
  11. amen.

    Posted: 2 years ago #
  12. I even tend to prefer the old post editor (WP 2.0.x) where at least I could insert raw HTML and see the correct result.
    Now, HTML comments do not work as '--' is replaced by something like '&#nnn;' where nnn is a number that stand for a nicer way to print --. But heck! I wanted to close my HTML comment not display it. So, now the web browser does not encounter the html end of comment where it should be expected... But somewhere later in the skin template part...
    Some web site provides services that we can add to our blog. Those services can directly integrates within popular and commercial blog platform like typepad or blogspot, and they usually deliver HTML to copy and paste into not supported blog platform. Now, with the "code" tab, it does not work as expected most of the time...
    So, today I am using phpmyadmin to edit my post. And it is half satisfying because WP interpret even this code so I have some <p> hanging here and there :-( HTML is no more compliant (even though I had provided valid raw HTML...)

    Well, I might try the suggestion of suburntkamel now, but I hope a fix will come soon.

    PS: btw do you know where is it that we can fill in bugs for WP?

    Posted: 2 years ago #
  13. LostInNetwork
    Member

    I fully agree.

    On the other hand:

    Isn't this a little old fashioned and inefficient, having content and form so tightly bound together? Let us type XML - ok, XHTML will do - and give us an css editor that lets us customize the css part affecting the display of posts only. And give us post by post css editing, so that we can be in full controll of the structure (xhtml) and form (css) of each post. Oh well, that could be a feature request, but I'm too lazy to do it now. It's here just as a comment.

    Scripts belong to templates.

    Posted: 2 years ago #
  14. rarosalion
    Member

    I love the fact that I don't have to think about html most of the time, so wordpress does the basics very well.

    But I <b>DEFINITELY</b> agree that if I specifically change some of the HTML code under the code tab, it should stay changed.

    Posted: 2 years ago #
  15. I agree with the original comment, entirely and enthusiastically.

    Posted: 2 years ago #
  16. sfritz313
    Member

    Agreed, 100%. Give me the rope and I'll hang myself with it, thank you very much.

    Posted: 2 years ago #
  17. Ditto ditto ditto. This is particularly frustrating whilst trying to format images in pages.

    Posted: 2 years ago #

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