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1. kchurch05
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I just wrote a new post on my blog, and for some reason Wordpress is removing my closing HTML tags. For example, I italicized something, but when I look at the blog post, it shows the tag was NOT closed and the rest of the post is italicized. When I hit "edit post" directly from the blog, the edit screen shows the closing tag is no longer there.

   This happens with </i>, </a>, </strong>, </em>, </b>, </blockquote>.

   This is the first time it's happened, and so far this is the only blog post that's affected. I was able to get around the issue by using the Text Control plugin and turn off wpautop formatting, but it's still annoying to have to mark up everything with </p> and the like.

2. moshu
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   <\strong>,<\em>,<\b>,<\blockquote>
   Those are invalid tags!

3. kchurch05
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Sorry, I meant </strong>, etc etc. I accidentally hit the backslash.

4. moshu
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Are you typing html tags into the wysiwyg animal? Only then happens that WP messes with the code.
   I never use the wysiwyg and WP never changes any of my handcoded posts...

5. kchurch05
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I don't think I'm using the wysiwyg; the post box looks exactly like the one I'm typing in right now. I tried it both ways - hand typing, and when those messed up, going back and using the buttons along the top to retag them. Both times the post stripped the closing tags.

6. moshu
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Check the Options > Writing settings and make sure the "WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically" box is NOT checked.

7. kchurch05
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I think that did it, thanks!

   (Very odd... I wonder why it started doing this now?)

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