Title: html editor not working
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# html editor not working

 *  [johnetta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnetta/)
 * (@johnetta)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-not-working-1/)
 * The code **pasted** in the html editor doesn’t appear in the visual editor.
    
   When I go back to the html editor the html code is not there.
 * How can this be resolved easily and simply–I’m not techno savvy with html and
   css

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 *  [Shane G.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shane-g-1/)
 * (@shane-g-1)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-not-working-1/#post-1360317)
 * Hi,
 * Check with these options:
 * – Upgrade your wordpress to the latest version. If it already upgraded then reinstall
   the wp-includes and wp-admin folders.
    – Disable all the plugins – Remove all
   unwanted code from htaccess
 * Thanks,
 * Shane G.
 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-not-working-1/#post-1360321)
 * that is exactly how it works. You can’t switch between the two.
 * If you use the html editor, you stay in the editor. If you switch to visual ever
   you lose your formatting.
 *  [mtngr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtngr/)
 * (@mtngr)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-not-working-1/#post-1360611)
 * hi,
 * same exact thing here, its got to be systemic?
 * last night, everything was fine as usual
    (lots of plugins, but they all seem
   to get along…) installed WP_SuperCache, so far so good (even though it seems 
   like a good idea to turn it off while editing) I’ve had maxblogpress installed
   for some time, but started creating links with it for first time. Instantly(?)
   the following happened –
    - visual view disappeared (but when high-lited showed html (as if it had turned
      white) html window was fine
    - whole visual editor was disappearing at times
    - live blog appeared fine -TG!
    - posts didn’t appear affected
    - Coincidentally, the hostgator srever went offline a few minutes later!
       (Very
      rare.)
    - Too many coincidences…?
    - Cheers,
       AMJ
 *  [Ellen Finkelstein](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ellen-finkelstein/)
 * (@ellen-finkelstein)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-not-working-1/#post-1360825)
 * Rev. Voodoo,
    That helped me a lot. Once you work in HTML code, you have to stay
   there. No one else has every said that on other posts on this topic. It shouldn’t
   be that way though. WordPress should NEVER strip out HTML code that you entered.
   Thanks for the explanation, though.
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-not-working-1/#post-1360826)
 * It’s due to an incompatibility between TinyMCE (what WP uses for the Visual editor)
   and the basic plaintext HTML editor. TinyMCE’s visual WYSIWYG system basically
   just filters out things that it doesn’t understand or is not programmed to display.
 * It’s just the same as when you copy a fully formatted Microsoft Word document
   and paste it into Notepad. You’ll lose quite a bit of formatting.
 * I’m sure the problem will be fixed when the WP developers get around to writing
   their own visual editor.

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