Title: HTML/Visual Editor not loading
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# HTML/Visual Editor not loading

 *  Resolved [iObject](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iobject/)
 * (@iobject)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htmlvisual-editor-not-loading/)
 * Hi, earlier I created a topic that got lost in the list of the How-To and Troubleshooting
   category of the support forums and seem to not be getting a response on how to
   fix a WordPress issue I am having.
 * The problem I am encountering is that I added a page with a list of companies
   and images to accompany the list (medium size downscaled to thumbnail size due
   to the thumbnail option cutting off parts of the images) while the page contains
   absolutely **no Javascript**.
 * When I finished it, I noticed that it was the only page that wouldn’t load the
   editor completely.
 * Original Page:
    [http://tcbentertainment.com/some-of-our-past-clients/](http://tcbentertainment.com/some-of-our-past-clients/)
 * Editor after loading has “finished”:
    [http://tcbentertainment.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Wordpress-problem.png](http://tcbentertainment.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Wordpress-problem.png)
 * Here’s what I’ve attempted in terms of fixing the issue:
    I tried upgrading the
   PHP Memory limit to 64M and 96M, cleared cache, de-activated all plugins (The
   Editor did not load while all plugins were inactive), tried re-installing the
   latest wordpress update, added define(‘SCRIPT_DEBUG’, true); and define(‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’,
   false); before “That’s all, stop editing!” in wp-config.php, moving define(‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’,
   false); before require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-settings.php’); in wp-config.php, tried
   reverting back to TwentyFourteen theme, I can’t seem to access earlier revisions
   of the page, I tried it in Chrome and Firefox, used Firefox Error Console, nothing
   appeared in terms of errors.
 * Java Warning: Use of getPreventDefault() is deprecated. Use defaultPrevented 
   instead. common-min.js:1
 * CSS Warnings: Unknown property ‘-moz-osx-font-smoothing’. Declaration dropped.
   load-styles.php:2
    Unknown property ‘speak’. Declaration dropped. load-styles.
   php:2 Unknown pseudo-class or pseudo-element ‘-webkit-input-placeholder’. Ruleset
   ignored due to bad selector. load-styles.php:2 Unknown pseudo-class or pseudo-
   element ‘-ms-input-placeholder’. Ruleset ignored due to bad selector. load-styles.
   php:2 Error in parsing value for ‘min-width’. Declaration dropped. load-styles.
   php:2 Unknown property ‘touch-action’. Declaration dropped. load-styles.php:4
   Unknown property ‘speak’. Declaration dropped. load-styles.php:4 Unknown property‘-
   moz-osx-font-smoothing’. Declaration dropped. load-styles.php:4 Unknown property‘
   user-select’. Declaration dropped. load-styles.php:4 Error in parsing value for‘
   background-image’. Declaration dropped. load-styles.php:4 Expected ‘none’ or 
   URL but found ‘alpha(‘. Error in parsing value for ‘filter’. Declaration dropped.
   load-styles.php:4 Error in parsing value for ‘padding’. Declaration dropped. 
   load-styles.php:4 Expected media feature name but found ‘-o-min-device-pixel-
   ratio’. load-styles.php:4 Expected media feature name but found ‘-webkit-min-
   device-pixel-ratio’. load-styles.php:4 Unknown property ‘speak’. Declaration 
   dropped. load-styles.php:5 Unknown property ‘-moz-osx-font-smoothing’. Declaration
   dropped. load-styles.php:5 Unknown property ‘user-select’. Declaration dropped.
   load-styles.php:5 Expected ‘none’ or URL but found ‘alpha(‘. Error in parsing
   value for ‘filter’. Declaration dropped. load-styles.php:5 Error in parsing value
   for ‘transition’. Declaration dropped. load-styles.php:5 Expected media feature
   name but found ‘-o-min-device-pixel-ratio’. load-styles.php:5 Expected media 
   feature name but found ‘-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio’. load-styles.php:5 Unknown
   property ‘touch-action’. Declaration dropped. load-styles.php:5 Unknown pseudo-
   class or pseudo-element ‘-webkit-search-decoration’. Ruleset ignored due to bad
   selector. load-styles.php:5 Expected end of value but found ‘,’. Error in parsing
   value for ‘background’. Declaration dropped. load-styles.php:5 Expected ‘none’
   or URL but found ‘alpha(‘. Error in parsing value for ‘filter’. Declaration dropped.
   load-styles.php:6 Unknown property ‘speak’. Declaration dropped. load-styles.
   php:6 Unknown property ‘-moz-osx-font-smoothing’. Declaration dropped. load-styles.
   php:6 Unknown property ‘user-select’. Declaration dropped. load-styles.php:7 
   Unknown pseudo-class or pseudo-element ‘-webkit-input-placeholder’. Ruleset ignored
   due to bad selector. load-styles.php:7 Expected ‘none’ or URL but found ‘alpha(‘.
   Error in parsing value for ‘filter’. Declaration dropped. thickbox.css:4 Expected‘
   none’ or URL but found ‘alpha(‘. Error in parsing value for ‘filter’. Declaration
   dropped. thickbox.css:106 Unknown property ‘speak’. Declaration dropped. thickbox.
   css:131 Unknown property ‘-moz-osx-font-smoothing’. Declaration dropped. thickbox.
   css:133 Error in parsing value for ‘background’. Declaration dropped. mediaelementplayer.
   min.css:1 Unknown property ‘-moz-border-radius’. Declaration dropped. mediaelementplayer.
   min.css:1 Error in parsing value for ‘background-image’. Declaration dropped.
   mediaelementplayer.min.css:1 Unknown property ‘-moz-background-size’. Declaration
   dropped. mediaelementplayer.min.css:1 Expected ‘none’ or URL but found ‘progid’.
   Error in parsing value for ‘filter’. Declaration dropped. mediaelementplayer.
   min.css:1 Error in parsing value for ‘max-width’. Declaration dropped. wp-mediaelement.
   css:117 Expected ‘none’ or URL but found ‘alpha(‘. Error in parsing value for‘
   filter’. Declaration dropped. imgareaselect.css:23 Expected ‘none’ or URL but
   found ‘alpha(‘. Error in parsing value for ‘filter’. Declaration dropped. imgareaselect.
   css:30 Expected ‘none’ or URL but found ‘alpha(‘. Error in parsing value for ‘
   filter’. Declaration dropped. imgareaselect.css:36 Unknown property ‘zoom’. Declaration
   dropped. all.backend.css:64 Expected ‘none’ or URL but found ‘alpha(‘. Error 
   in parsing value for ‘filter’. Declaration dropped. all.backend.css:65 Error 
   in parsing value for ‘top’. Declaration dropped. post.php:1 Expected ‘none’ or
   URL but found ‘alpha(‘. Error in parsing value for ‘filter’. Declaration dropped.
   editor.min.css:1 Error in parsing value for ‘width’. Declaration dropped. editor.
   min.css:1 Unknown property ‘speak’. Declaration dropped. editor.min.css:1 Unknown
   property ‘-moz-osx-font-smoothing’. Declaration dropped. editor.min.css:1 Error
   in parsing value for ‘height’. Declaration dropped. editor.min.css:1 Expected
   media feature name but found ‘-o-min-device-pixel-ratio’. editor.min.css:1 Expected
   media feature name but found ‘-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio’. editor.min.css:
   1 Error in parsing value for ‘transition’. Declaration dropped. load-styles.php:
   1 Unknown property ‘-moz-osx-font-smoothing’. Declaration dropped. load-styles.
   php:1
 * I believe it could be a problem with how much content is on the page being loaded,
   but at the same time the page loads while the HTML and Visual editors seem to
   not load.
 * It also could be a Javascript conflict due to the fact that the sidebar of WordPress
   to access Pages, posts, plugins, etc does not auto-scroll and does not show sub-
   menus, but as I said before there is absolutely no Javascript in the page’s content
   and it seems to be the only one that is causing an issue.
 * Is there anything else I can try to fix the problem?

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 *  Thread Starter [iObject](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iobject/)
 * (@iobject)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htmlvisual-editor-not-loading/#post-5089693)
 * Fix:
 * I found out the problem persisted with the page. The HTML Editor loaded in Firefox,
   but it didn’t let me update. I copied the code into a fresh page and it worked
   just fine on both Firefox and Chrome!

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