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1. ingmarz
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #
   

   Hello Word Press Wizards!

   I put up a post the other day to my Word Press site, http://www.ingmarlee.com, and the whole site has switched to italics and I can't switch it back! Any solutions?

   Help will be most appreciated!

   Cheers, Ingmar (ingmarz@gmail.com)

2. Jonathan Landrum
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #
   

   Well, I found this at post-67:

   <em></em><em></em><em></em><em></em><em></em>
<em></em><em></em><em></em><em></em><em></em>
<em></em>...

   Are you using the visual rich editor? Also, do you have the option "WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically" selected?

3. Doodlebee
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #
   

   The problem is right here:

   <p lang="en-CA">
<font size="3">
<em>Pangong Lake, 130 kms long, straddles the Ladakh/Tibet border</em>
</font>
<em>
<font size="3">(Photo, Ingmar Lee)
<a href="image URL here">(more…)</a>

   You have no closing </em> tag after that caption for the picture - so everything after it is in italics. "Everything after it" happens to be the entire page. (Why *do* you have text styling around an image, anyway? Just curious.)

   Common mistake -people just don't close a tag - should be the first thing you check! ;)

4. ladydelaluna
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #
   

   </font><em><font size="3">

   Okay, this kind of stuff shouldn't even be IN there... you're apparently copying and pasting into the editor, and that's not a good idea, as it will ALWAYS insert junk code like this...

5. ingmarz
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #
   

   Thanks so much! I'm an html zero, but I'll go try doodlebee's suggestion and add the "" to the end of my phot caption.

   ladydelaluna says I shouldn't cut-and-paste to the site, but I write my stuff in a word processor first. That's no good??

   I appreciate all the help!

   Cheers, Ingmar

6. bran8464
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #
   

   Use a simple text editor like notepad or textpad. I had that problem too, it was a nightmare when I used Word.

7. ingmarz
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #
   

   Hi again, Well, I tried inserting "" after the caption, but it didn't change anything. The italics are still there.

   Also, I don't know if I'm using ".. the visual rich editor?.." How can I find out?

   Also, I don't know if I have the option "WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically" selected.

   Where can I find this?

   Thanks again!

   Cheers, Ingmar

8. moshu
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #
   

   Everything is in your admin panel of the tool that you are using. It is always advisable to study it for a while before jumping into it.
   1. Wysiwyg - in 2 places:
   admin > Options > Writing (for the whole site)
   admin > Users > Your profile: left bottom, for yourself
   2. XTHML nesting... Options > Writing

9. ingmarz
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #
   

   Thanks everyone, I've stripped all the <EM>'s out now and that's solved the problem!

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