I am also having this problem. It is not the browser, but something in WP. Adding . in the same color as the background was a great idea!
Please fix this. It seems to do it to me when I use pictures in my post.
I also continue to have similar problems, and have begun to collect information on related issues in the codex at:
http://codex.wordpress.org/How_Wordpress_Processes_Entry_Text
Even using the plugins listed, wordpress continues to process and remove elements from posts. This is most definitely /not/ a browser issue, but one of how wordpress saves and processes text from the editor.
Any help appreciated!
My frustration with this incredibly stupid problem discourages me from blogging in general and with wordpress, specifically. I am so annoyed with it.
I use firefox.
WORDPRESS, this is a STUPID problem! Why should I upgrade if you can’t even fix this silly issue????
Now we must go digging through code to fix this. Why will you remove BR and P tags – are you CRAZY???
So fix it or pay the price, users will leave your software to use something that actually POST CODE correctly…
same problem here… using firefox and wp 2.3.2
http://gostep.org
ANY help would be appreciated.. I’ve used the “.” same as background before, but I stopped when I realized that it was being picked up on mobile, google, and trackbacks… therefore making me look like an amateur programmer (no offense).
I had a similiar problem and it turn’d out to be the style sheet for the theme that was preventing those from displaying how I’d like.
Check there, hope that helps!
>WORDPRESS, this is a STUPID problem! Why should I upgrade if you can’t even fix this silly issue????
I hate to read comments with no respect to WP developers.
If you want to use a break, enter
<br></br>
So adding the <br></br> will work. Enter it in as code then save.
However If you go back into edit your post it will remove it.
I’d just like the WYSIWYG editor to WYG the post the I WYS.
Ahh… I see what you mean. I’m not 100% sure, but it looks like that depends on the web browser you are using. I simply want to edit the article directly with HTML code. So I just use a particular browser. If I use Firefox (Mac), I would have to click on the code button or something.
I’ve tried in both firefox and explorer….pc user 🙁 .. and it still strips it out. i’ve always had it as an intermittent problem, but since the upgrade to 2.3 from 2.2 it is not a constant issue
You can disable the wysiwyg editor all together and just enter html code. If you look under the my profile link in your dashboard you see a checkbox for using the visual editor uncheck it.
So there’s no way to get nice paragraph breaks without going into the code?
WordPress automatically handles paragraphing for you. Just hit ENTER when making posts. It will automatically wrap the paragraphs in P’s and so forth.
If you want a single BR, when using the visual editor, you hit shift-enter instead of enter. Done and done.
Note that the non-visual editor is slightly different. There one enter = a BR, two = a paragraph break.
But there’s no real case where you should ever have to enter P tags manually. WordPress does not expect you to enter HTML code. It expects you to enter text. Just plain text. It will take care of formatting it. Some HTML is acceptable, like images and em and strong and so on, but there’s no reason to put P’s and such in manually. It’ll do it for you. Let it.
That is not whats happening. All of the blank line is stripped out between the Preview in WYSIWYG and the post itself.
Pressing enter is stripping mine out. Having said that I realize it is working here and this uses the same coding…so clearly the problem is with my application.
Anyone else having this problem using any WYSIWYG plugins?
^hmm…well i wasn’t having that problem.
for me. in the WYSIWYG visual editor it will do the breaks ( <br */> and <p*>):
see here
but then for some reason when i post it’ll completely ignore the paragraph breaks and turn them into single line breaks:
click
and oddly enough if you view the source for my blog you’ll see that the paragraph breaks are there:
click
but according to the WordPress HTML editor they’re not >__<:
click
now, on my last WordPress update for 2.3.1/2 oddly enough i managed to get the breaks using the
&*nbsp;<br /*>
method that was mentioned before (last time i tried before those updates. they wouldn’t work >>;; )
that’s great that i can get them now. but heck i don’t want to have to go and paste that everytime i want a paragraph break >__< (now that is just incredibly tedious)
2 notes on this issue (at least for me):
1. this problem isn’t just on Firefox, it’s on every browser i go on (IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera) on both pc and mac
(2)ONLY WordPress is doing this. as in, if i were to put paragraph breaks on any other page on my blog it will do the paragraph break. (general this tells me that the problem is, at least after trying to fix this problem for the longest time, is not in my css)
the back of my head kinda thinks that it might be a compatibility problem between my theme and the current version of WordPress (because i never changed any of the theme files to match how they’re coded for 2.3) but then that doesn’t make sense to me because i never had that problem with past WP updates >>
so all in all very confusing
