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petit
Member
Posted 3 years ago #

Hi! I assure you I've been searching for this :)
Problem:
I'm using the Rich editor ( tinyMCE, WYSIWYG ) and every now and then I want to check or insert HTML code.
So I click the [html] button, which suggest just that, but it pops up without any content.

Questions:
o Does anyone have the same problem?
o Is this what is supposed to happen by design?
o Is it a browser effect? I'm using Firefox.
o Does anyone have a description of what (X)HTML tags the built in Rich editor and the "normal" text editor allows. what is stripped when saving/publishing?

o Is there a better alternative, that may be plugged in?

If you know anything about any of the above questions, pleas post it here!
Fredo0709
Member
Posted 3 years ago #

Hi,
This also happens to me and it's driving me nuts trying to fix this in Mozilla. It works fine in IE and I'm able to edit HTML but in Firefox, it pops up empty. Another tinyMCE button that aligns pictures also doesn't work. I'll post back here if I ever find out why this happens and if there's a fix for it.
petit
Member
Posted 3 years ago #

Please do!
Taht'd be great.
Splutter
Member
Posted 3 years ago #

Hi guys,

Fairly new to this, but now we have the visual rich editor, I've been using it without error in Camino - and yes and the popup html editor has been working great guns. (My default browser was Safari, but gave up trying to edit with it immediately as you all know it doesn't do rich html, never mind the visual rich editor.)

Additionally, I was chuffed when I tried the latest nightly of Shiira; when spoofed as Mozilla/Netscape/Explorer the rich html features work a treat - didn't think webkit browsers did this.
However, I tried the visual rich editor and although it appears to work, all your entries are lost after the save. Same applies with the popup editor - it does show content, you can add to it and it appears in your post after it is closed - but is lost when saved.

Related problem I have no idea, but though it worth a mention.
Tancread1
Member
Posted 3 years ago #

Same problem as the original poster, oddly it works fine in IE and on my laptop with the same build of Firefox as I use at home. The only difference is the plugins for Firefox so I suspect that may be where the problem lies. I will play with the plugins and see what happens.
Splutter
Member
Posted 3 years ago #

I've tried the Safari Stand plugin with Debug menu and User Agent (set to Mozilla 1.1 and Netscape 7.0) and get the same results as for spoofed Shiira - i.e. don't try the Visual Rich Editor or html edit.
petit
Member
Posted 3 years ago #

Much later :) follow up
The Rich to HTML swich works fine in Firefox after installing WP 2.02
charlieahern
Member
Posted 3 years ago #

Hi all, a newbie here:

Using WP 2.02 and Firefox 1.5.0.1. When I want to edit the HTML code of an existing post and click the HTML button on the Write Post page, the HTML Source Editor opens blank. Also, I notice that when I open an existing page to edit it, that the HTML code appears for a couple of seconds in Post box and is then replaced by the WYSIWYG content.

How do I get the HTML code to appear in the HTML Source Editor so that I can edit the code?

I thought petit's last post indicated the problem was automagically resolved, but I still don't see the code in the Editor. Is there a "Rich to HTML swich" option that has to be selected?

Thanks in advance.

PS: The Write->Write Post page in the documentation seems to be for an older version of WP. hmmm....Maybe some day I will rewrite it. 8-}
petit
Member
Posted 3 years ago #

Please rewrite it if you know better, or maybe add to it, stating what version you are writing for. Some people don't upgrade, probably because of plugins dire to them.

As for my notice on the working Rich to HTML switch, that was for WP 2.02, not 2.01.

There is no switch to set - it simply should work.

You see the (X)HTML briefly before you get Rich editor, which is normal behavior.

This is what I do when I need to edit HTML:
o If the post is not saved or published ( new post ) I save it.
o I go to my accounts page and unselect "Use the visual rich editor when writing"
o I now "Manage posts" and start editing the post, now in the plain text editor.

Tedious workaround, no doubt, but it works.
An upgrade to 2.02 might help.
stevation
Member
Posted 3 years ago #

I'm having the same problem. Using FF 1.5.0.1 and WP 2.0. I'll try upgrading to 2.0.2 and see what happens.
stevation
Member
Posted 3 years ago #

Nope. Just upgraded and it still doesn't work right. What a shame. I wanted to leave IE behind, but now I'll have to keep using it.
Splutter
Member
Posted 3 years ago #

Everything OK with WP 2.02 using Opera 9 build 3216 on a Mac.
Splutter
Member
Posted 3 years ago #

Hey you guys, try the Bon Echo Firefox release - works OK on a Mac in WP 2.02 - available: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/bonecho/alpha1/
stevation
Member
Posted 3 years ago #

I tried uninstalling Firefox, removing all registry entries related to it, and reinstalling with no extensions, and it still behaves the same. But it works on my laptop, which runs Win XP Pro. My home PC with XP Home is where it's not working.
dutch_gecko
Member
Posted 3 years ago #

See the other thread for possible info
petit
Member
Posted 3 years ago #

Earlier in this thread, I was happy to tell you the Rich Editor in WordPress 2.02 worked for me in FF 1.5 on Win XP Home edition. That seems to have been a happy event. It no longer works - no idea why.

I downloaded the latest version of TinyMCE, and at least their examples work well for me.
I'm not sure if the editor in WordPress is changed to fit whithin the WP environment, or of the new version could be installed in WP without breaking the system.
Splutter
Member
Posted 3 years ago #

Try Firefox 1.5.0.2 now OK like Opera 9pre2.
petit
Member
Posted 3 years ago #

Well, something fisy here. I do use FF 1.5.0.2, but can't get it work. I can go to my profile and change the editor options as needed, but it's not a very smoth solution.
reveller
Member
Posted 3 years ago #

I'm running Firefox 1.5.0.6 and Wordpress 2.0.4 under Windows XP Professional.

Making a new post is OK and I can paste in html code after pressing the 'html' button on the editor.

But as soon as I press 'html' to edit the post, I get the blank page problem.

IE and Opera don't have this problem - everything works as specified with these browsers.

Now with the increasing popularity of Firefox more and more bloggers are going to hit this problem, so perhaps the excellent people at Wordpress could speak to the excellent people at Firefox to identify and resolve the problem!
don6698
Member
Posted 3 years ago #

Hi, Gang,

Just joined this forum to try to find a solution to this empty HTML source window wehn trying to write posts and pages. I have the latest versions of Wordpress and Firefox and IE 7 Beta 3 on Windows XP. The HTML popup window worked fine until a week or ten days ago. I don't know if it was after Firefox updated itself or after my Norton Security upgrade. But now the HTML window does not work in eiteher Firefox or IE 7. In Firefox the HTML soruce window opens, but it is empty. In EI7 the popup never opens at all, but there security frame at the top to tell me a pupup was blocked and giv e me the option to allow it; just nothing happens when i click on the HMTML button in the rich text editor (it goes dark for an instant, but there is no popup).

Also, when I un-check the option "Users use visual rich text editor by default", as suggested in an earlier post, the editor STILL converts to rich text, raher than allowing me to write HTML. Very frustrating!

Don't know how to check my Norton settings, but I guess I'll be learning. ;-) Not too hopeful that will bgear fruit.

Please share a solution if you find one!

Warmly,

Don :)
don6698
Member
Posted 3 years ago #

Hi, Again,

Okay, gonna look through the forums more before posting again. Just found another thred on this topic, not as helpful as this one. But someone there did point out that there is an option to use the rich text editor at the bottom of the personal profile (under the Users menu). When I un-checked that one, too, I was able to get the oldstyle HTML editor. At least that's something. Still want to get the tinyMCE editor fixed, though.

Why do these programs have the same option in more than one place?

Don :)
Chris_K
Administrator
Posted 3 years ago #

The first one you found sets the default for ALL users.

The second one you found is specific to You, the current user and overrides the default.
Ahhh
Member
Posted 3 years ago #

Hi HandySolo! I've been trying to crack a problem with the editor too. In IE7 it works fine but in FF2 in keeps deleting sections of the code. I thought it was FF but having been through them it's not. Anyone any ideas?? The only thing I've found is to use IE7 for Wordpress and FF for everything else but that's a bit daft!!
Chris_K
Administrator
Posted 3 years ago #

What sort of code is getting deleted?

Are you adding it directly to the WYSIWYG editor? That'll hose it up. In fact, it seems that adding code via the WYSIWYG html popup rarely fares much better (at least for me).

If the code is javascript type stuff, check out Otto's javascript preserver plugin. If the code is youtube type stuff, there are some good plugins for that. Or, just (temporarily) disable the wysiwyg thing and add code via the "classic" editor for much fewer headaches.

Users -> Your Profile, bottommost checkbox.
Ahhh
Member
Posted 3 years ago #

Thanks mate, will try that. You might like to look at this thread on Mozillazine for their views: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=2562290#2562290
. . . then again, maybe you've got better things to do! :)
Thanks again.
FalconsFan
Member
Posted 3 years ago #

I'm experiencing this problem as well but I've noticed that people are saying that it works in IE so I decided to try a FireFox extension that I have installed called IE Tab which basically allows you to view a page as though you were running IE. Using this extension now allows the edit HTML to work. It's a work around but it beats having to go to the user profile, uncheck the rich editor option, going back to edit the page/post, blah blah blah, and it allows me to continue to work in FireFox.
Ahhh
Member
Posted 3 years ago #

Hi, sorry for taking so long, hope you've got this RSS thing-ied . . . ! I've been struggling with that too on FF, hence the delay. I've given up and started using a freestanding app called RssReader. It's OK but a pain to have it all unintegrated. Anyway . . . thanks for the suggestion, I've checked it out but can you help with this: I've stopped using IE because everytime I use it I get a virus (exagerration but . . . ) does installing the extension bring with it the problems?

Do you have any idea why this would work. It's actually some javascript I'm having the problems with. I tried switching the editing mode but it didn't fix the problem. I REALLY don't want to use IE.

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