Title: html stripping?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# html stripping?

 *  [brianbonner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brianbonner/)
 * (@brianbonner)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-stripping/)
 * Why when i paste my columns into WP does it strip the embedded html in the story?

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 *  [prissed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prissed/)
 * (@prissed)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-stripping/#post-182093)
 * It’s how they designed it. Only the developers can tell you that.
 * You ought to look into Alex King’s [WP Unformatted](http://www.alexking.org/index.php?content=software/wordpress/content.php)
   plugin (works in 1.5).
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-stripping/#post-182103)
 * Or you could just try turning off “WordPress should correct invalidly nested 
   XHTML automatically” under Options > Writing.
 *  [Lorelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorelle/)
 * (@lorelle)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-stripping/#post-182107)
 * No, WordPress will not “strip” html code. But it will screw with it a little 
   bit.
 * For example, it will put in line breaks `<br />` if you have one in the html,
   it will add spaces between `> <` sometimes, which makes things painful sometimes.
 * You can override this with [Text Control plugin](http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/TextControl)
   by setting the global defaults to NO FORMATTING or customize each post individually.
 *  Thread Starter [brianbonner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brianbonner/)
 * (@brianbonner)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-stripping/#post-182135)
 * Actually it just removed the embedded HTML in the posts. I had to go back in 
   an add it back in. it was allot of links too. It turned it back into plain text.
 * So which is it. can I just turn it off or do I need the plugin?
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-stripping/#post-182151)
 * The point we all sort of made, indirectly, is that WordPress normally doesn’t
   strip out html tags entered in a post. It can play havoc with them if they’re
   seen to be invalid in some way, but if they’re completely stripped out, something
   else is going on in the background.
 * Running any text-formatting plugins?
 *  Thread Starter [brianbonner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brianbonner/)
 * (@brianbonner)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-stripping/#post-182152)
 * No pluggins except recent posts on right column.
 * It happened when copying from word into the post area of WP. evry single link
   was gone in numerous messages. Not messed up. plain old completely gone. I always
   compose in word run the spell and grammar checker then copy and paste to the 
   blog and publish.
 *  Thread Starter [brianbonner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brianbonner/)
 * (@brianbonner)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-stripping/#post-182159)
 * I just tried it again. It won’t let me paste the embedded code into the post 
   window. after the paste it is gone.
 *  [prissed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prissed/)
 * (@prissed)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-stripping/#post-182762)
 * If you’re talking about the embedded link (i.e. in Word, click on “hyperlink”
   to create a link on a certain word/phrase) then no, it won’t do that. WordPress
   isn’t a WYSIWYG editor, so there’s no way for it to parse that information to
   tell what is a link and what’s not.
 * If you type out the link code in Word (i.e. [link text](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-stripping/link?output_format=md))
   then it will keep your link tags.
 *  [prissed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prissed/)
 * (@prissed)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-stripping/#post-182764)
 * Shoot…this auto-formatting thing…
 * <a href="link">Link</a>

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