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1. Tdude
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Hi!
   In all of my WP installs, 2 of them the latest 2.12, the wysiwyg editor messes up the div tags I insert in code view and changes them to p tags. It just adds a paragraph tag and a no breking space in between them. What is this? I'm a programmer and all that, but want to use the wysiwyg editor anyway. Is there an easy way to get into the regexp filtering of the editor?

   Here's what i want to do with the wysiwyg editor on, but in html mode:
   

   <div class="column">
   first column
   </div>
   <div class="column">
   second column
   </div>

   It turns into something like this after I save and open it again:
   

   <p class="column">&nbsp;</p>
   first column
   <p class="column">&nbsp;</p>
   second column

   As you can see, this gets serious from a layout point of view. It happens if I open a previous post which is correct and validated.
   I've tried to dig into the TinyMCE files, but couldn't find what I was looking for (yet)
   I've also tried posting questions about this here and there. Any hints anyone? (except "turn the wysiwyg editor off")

2. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Here's what i want to do with the wysiwyg editor on, but in html mode:
   <div class="column">
   first column
   </div>
   <div class="column">
   second column
   </div>

   You do realize that this code is invalid markup, right? Div is a block level element which can only contain other block level elements. Straight text is an inline element. You could do something like <div><p>text</p></div> and that would be valid, since P is a block level element which can only contain inline elements.

   I admit that the editor is annoying, but when you feed it bad markup and it tries to fix it, it's probably going to do it badly.

3. sauceyman
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Otto, I think somewhere along the way you've been misled. His code Is valid code. A Div tag may contain both block and inline elements.

   Tdude, the answer to your problem can be found at this post...

   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/102696?replies=4

4. Tdude
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Never mind. Thanks Sauceyman! Otto too!

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