Title: automatic word wrap bug
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# automatic word wrap bug

 *  [globalcitizen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dunkelangst/)
 * (@dunkelangst)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-word-wrap-bug/)
 * Dear WordPress developers!!
 * WordPress 2.8.6 has got a Problem with the automatic word wrap. Type the following
   comment in a WordPress Blog: `Thank you for your comment!<blockquote>this is 
   a small quote</blockquote> Next Text` Then you have to save the comment. If you
   validate the your publish, you will see, that the sentence “Thank you for your
   comment!” will be put into the following absurd tags: `<p>Thank you for your 
   comment!<br />`. The same Problem exists when you type `test 2 <p> break </p>
   next text`. After the word test 2 you will miss the </p>.
 * WordPress has got this mistake with every single elements like these one: `<p
   >, <ul>, <ol>, <li>, <h1> bis <h6>, <div>, <blockquote> etc.`
 * When you make manuell a word wrap in front of these elements, you won’t finde
   any problem, so WordPress must put an automatic word wrap in front of theses 
   elements and it doesen’t do it. Please fix this nerved bug!!
 * regards, Dunkelangst from [http://www.dunkelangst.org/](http://www.dunkelangst.org/)

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-word-wrap-bug/#post-1284119)
 * You are aware that’s invalid HTML, right?
 * It should be like this:
 *     ```
       Thank you for your comment!
   
       <blockquote>this is a small quote</blockquote>
   
       Next Text
       ```
   
 * Which gives you this:
 *     ```
       <p>Thank you for your comment!</p>
   
       <blockquote>this is a small quote</blockquote>
   
       <p>Next Text</p>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [globalcitizen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dunkelangst/)
 * (@dunkelangst)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-word-wrap-bug/#post-1284122)
 * Yes, you have to do the word wrap manuell – than you’ve got the right code. WordPress
   have to do it autimatically and it doesn’t do it.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-word-wrap-bug/#post-1284127)
 * WordPress is doing exactly what you’ve asked it to, so the ‘fault’ lies in … 
   well, you. You input the information in an invalid format. WordPress, rightly,
   assumes you know what you’re doing.
 * That isn’t a word-wrap bug, that’s a user input error.
 *  Thread Starter [globalcitizen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dunkelangst/)
 * (@dunkelangst)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-word-wrap-bug/#post-1284150)
 * What?! You can not assume that a user of a blog will put at every tag a manual
   word wrap! That doesn’t do any other web based software but not WordPress. It
   is a WordPress bug.
 * > WordPress is doing exactly what you’ve asked it to, so the ‘fault’ lies in …
   > well, you.
 * I don’t know who you are but if I were you, I wouldn’t call me a liar. 😉 That
   is just an insult.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-word-wrap-bug/#post-1284158)
 * I didn’t say liar. Nor did I imply it. I said it was user-error, not a code bug.
 * > What?! You can not assume that a user of a blog will put at every tag a manual
   > word wrap! That doesn’t do any other web based software but not WordPress. 
   > It is a WordPress bug.
 * You’re not using the term ‘word wrap’ in a way I understand. Word wrap means,
   when I hit the end of the line, my text magically wraps around to the next line,
   and I don’t have to hit enter like we did in the days of typewriters.
 * What you’re saying sounds like this: “When someone enters in HTML comments in
   an invalid way, the HTML output from WordPress is also invalid.”
 * Which … yeah. You’re right. That’s how it works. Not a bug, user error.
 *  Thread Starter [globalcitizen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dunkelangst/)
 * (@dunkelangst)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-word-wrap-bug/#post-1284348)
 * What ever…
 * I think you are right. word wrap was the wrong vocabulary. Sorry. I am from Germany
   and my English is not so good. Sorry.
 * What ever you think about this posting I’ve put a [bug report](http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11202).
   I don’t think it is a User error. So you can comment it there. I’ve done my task
   now – the rest is not my problem.
 * bye.
 *  [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * (@claytonjames)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-word-wrap-bug/#post-1284368)
 * Yeah, Ipstenu… what he said. So there. 😛
 * Interesting. I wonder if what he is experiencing could be some weird by-product
   or glitch from the modded css? It appears to be an adaptation of the “Falling
   Dreams” theme, which I _think _may have been originally intended for optimized
   viewing on mobile devices. Or at least very small view ports. I guess I would
   be curious to know if the symptoms persist with a different theme. Oh, well.
 *  Thread Starter [globalcitizen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dunkelangst/)
 * (@dunkelangst)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-word-wrap-bug/#post-1284370)
 * > It appears to be an adaptation of the “Falling Dreams” theme
 * Yes, I [adjusted](http://www.dunkelangst.org/2009/07/19/falling-dreams-adjusted-theme/)
   the falling dreams theme to my own individual requirements.
 * > I guess I would be curious to know if the symptoms persist with a different
   > theme. Oh, well.
 * The bug, I’ve put it here into the forum, is independent from any theme. So it
   is a bug of WordPress.
 *  [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * (@claytonjames)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-word-wrap-bug/#post-1284374)
 * Well done! We’ll wait to see if anyone has a suggestion.
 * Best wishes!
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-word-wrap-bug/#post-1284472)
 * Oh no, I agree clearly that it is functionality of WordPress causing the issue.
   I just don’t agree that it’s a ‘bug’ or ‘flaw’ in WordPress to in-line validate
   bad HTML. The software just isn’t that smart is all, nor should, I feel, we expect
   it to be so. It’s not reasonable to expect WordPress to spit back an error on
   invalid HTML, since sometimes we WANT to do that.

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