Title: HTML editor doesn’t work
Last modified: August 18, 2016
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# HTML editor doesn’t work
* [BizCoach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bizcoach/)
* (@bizcoach)
* [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-doesnt-work/)
* When I’m writing a post there’s a button that says HTML. When I click in another
window pops up which should contain HTML code (I assume) but it’s empty – this
no matter how much or how little content is already in my post.
* I’m using FireFox 1.5.0.1 browser on a Win XP machine.
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* [vinnym](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vinnym/)
* (@vinnym)
* [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-doesnt-work/#post-348802)
* I have the same problem, and it looks like they are ignoring it.
* [vinnym](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vinnym/)
* (@vinnym)
* [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-doesnt-work/#post-348804)
* From what I’ve discovered, this seems to be a Firefox problem. It works fine
in IE, Opera, etc. This is on a windows machine.
* [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
* (@moshu)
* [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-doesnt-work/#post-348805)
* Yes, vinnym, based on reports and complians here it seems FF 1.5 was a _premature_
release: a lot of things don’t work properly in it. So, you guys would do better
posting these in their forum 🙂
* [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
* (@vkaryl)
* [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-doesnt-work/#post-348806)
* I’m using FF1.5.0.1 on WinXPPro, and the html window works as designed (when
I activate the wysiwyg, of course). I see content in both write post and manage
post screens. Maybe something with one of your options settings in FF? Or perhaps
it’s XPHome you’re using, not Pro? My laptop is a bit different on Home than
my desktop on Pro (which is why I’m going to put Pro on it shortly….)
* I’m booting the laptop to check with it as well, I’ll post back in a bit….
* [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
* (@vkaryl)
* [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-doesnt-work/#post-348807)
* Back…. yes, works fine on my laptop XPHome install as well.
* [stevation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevation/)
* (@stevation)
* [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-doesnt-work/#post-348810)
* I’m having the same problem as the original poster. Vkaryl, you appear to be
the first person I’ve seen post on this who is actually getting it to work right
with FF.
* I’m on an XP Home machine right now. I’ll have to try it on my laptop at work
tomorrow with XP Pro and see if I get any difference.
* The only thing I did to FF after installing it tonight was to install the Google
Toolbar, which wasn’t easy and crashed FF, so maybe my FF is screwed up from
that?
* [stevation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevation/)
* (@stevation)
* [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-doesnt-work/#post-348811)
* OK, now I’m on my laptop running Win XP Pro, with the same version of Firefox
and the same WP blog, and the HTML editor works fine.
* I would think the problem is caused by XP Home, but Vkaryl says it worked fine
on XP Home. Two things are different on this FF installation: 1) I never installed
Google Toolbar on this one, and 2) the home version had an extension for sending
error reports to Mozilla (I think that’s what it was). The one that’s working
fine has no extentions installed. When I get home, I’ll try removing that extension.
* Steve
* [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
* (@handysolo)
* [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-doesnt-work/#post-348812)
* I have FF 1.5x running on 3 (2 xp pro, one FC5 linux) machines and all work as
expected with the “HTML” button.
* Perhaps the next interesting step would be to have those that don’t have it working
post what FF extensions they have enabled and see if anything pops up from that?
* [jacked](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacked/)
* (@jacked)
* [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-doesnt-work/#post-348813)
* i’m running FF 1.5.x and have AdBlock, FasterFox, SearchStatus and the Google
Toolbar installed and am having issues with the HTML button disappearing on me.
I tried checking in IE and the HTML button nor the graphic buttons for the other
commands work… the graphic buttons have been changed to grey boxes
* [stevation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevation/)
* (@stevation)
* [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-doesnt-work/#post-348814)
* So I went home and uninstalled Firefox and then reinstalled it with no extensions.
It still behaves the same, but it’s clear from the settings in the new installation
that the old installation’s settings were saved and used in the new installation(
except for the extensions that I didn’t install). I may have to do a cleaner
uninstall and then reinstall. I’d have to figure out registry keys to delete
and such. What a pain.
* I’m sure someone out there knows the answer to this but they just haven’t seen
this thread yet. There must be some setting or conflict with other software or
something that could be fixed that would make FF able to use the HTML button
in the WP editor!
* [stevation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevation/)
* (@stevation)
* [19 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-doesnt-work/#post-348818)
* Last night, I uninstalled FF again on that machine with Win XP Home, removed
all registry entries that said anything about Firefox and some that referenced
Mozilla. Reinstalled it with no extensions, and it’s still acting the same. Still
working fine on my laptop with XP Pro, though. And I even installed the Google
Toolbar on the laptop, and that didn’t mess it up. Any other ideas out there?
If it’s not XP Home that’s messing it up, what else could it be?
* [dutch_gecko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dutch_gecko/)
* (@dutch_gecko)
* [19 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-doesnt-work/#post-348819)
* Off the top of my head, there are three obvious things that could be doing it:
- Adblock extension
- NoScript extension
- Your JavaScript settings
- The first two you can check for in Tools|Extensions (not alphabetical), and
the second you can change in Tools|Options|Content. There is an “Enable Javascript”
checkbox as well as and “Advanced” button. Make sure to check that all the
Advanced options are Enabled.
- If that works, you can re-disable those little JS niggles one by one and keep
checking to make sure the HTML box hasn’t broken.
- I had something even odder, where the box kept shrinking, but I gave up on
it and abandoned the WYSIWYG editor 🙂
* edit: just so you know, Firefox practically doesn’t use the registry at all (
only for assosciations and the start menu). It stores all your settings in a
profile, which is located at:
[system drive]:\Documents and Settings\[your username]
Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\Default.[garbage]\
* Try changing your JS settings first, and if that fails, delete the whole of the
Profiles folder and reinstall Firefox.
P.S. This will destroy your bookmarks!
If you want you can copy out the bookmarks.html file in your profile, and copy
it back when done.
* [kylekorleski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kylekorleski/)
* (@kylekorleski)
* [19 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-doesnt-work/#post-348820)
* I’ve had this problem with Firefox but I wanted to make sure it was just firefox
and not WP. It turns out that the WYSIWYG doesn’t work on Opera and there is
NO way that I am using IE.
* [stevation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevation/)
* (@stevation)
* [19 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-doesnt-work/#post-348821)
* Thanks for the tips, gecko. I don’t have any extensions installed, but I did
go and enable all the advanced options for javascript. Still no improvement.
Also, when I uninstalled yesterday, I did remove the profile folder.
* I also made sure I had the same version of Java runtime environment on this PC
as on my laptop (where it works fine), and that didn’t help either. Is there
something else that sets the environment for a web page like this that could
be different on the two PCs?
* – Steve
* [splutter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/splutter/)
* (@splutter)
* [19 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-doesnt-work/#post-348822)
* Have any of you Windows guys tried the Bon Echo release – works fine on my Mac
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