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  • Dot

    (@dianetingleyhotmailcom)


    I just tried to post a poem and it came out as a block of text – it looks right in the editor; them publishes as a block of text – how do I get it to publish the way it looks in the editor?#
    Diane

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  • Hi,
    Make sure that when editing a post in the uper right side of the editor box you have selected “Visual” insted of “Html”.
    This should work, if not please reply and also include some print screens to see exactly what issues you experience.
    Have a nice one

    Thread Starter Dot

    (@dianetingleyhotmailcom)

    Hi cheers for this – it has made no difference though!
    See the post here:
    http://deardot.com/?p=454

    Is that post the poem? How do you want it to look? How did you enter it — type into the Visual editor (or html editor) or cut/paste from someplace else (what kind of source — i.e. Word or ??)?

    Thread Starter Dot

    (@dianetingleyhotmailcom)

    Hello
    Oooh – yes; I posted from word – I wonder if that was it; the poem (well two poems) were included in the post – it all looked the way it was supposed to in the visual editor, (I have Tiny Me – that shouldn’t have made a difference?)but just came out as a block when published; I’ll trying typing it in separately
    Thanx

    Thread Starter Dot

    (@dianetingleyhotmailcom)

    Hello again
    That made no difference
    Then I trashed the page and tried inputting a number of hellos; double spaced – but that, and the lineation I used in the visual editor, just came out as one line when I published :?/
    Here is a link:
    http://deardot.com/?p=460

    I posted from word

    Don’t paste content from Microsoft Word into WordPress as the pasted text will also contain Word’s own formatting. Sooner or later, this formatting will stop your pages from being displayed correctly (if at all) in Internet Explorer. If you cannot possibly manage without Word, paste your text into NotePad (or another text editor) first, then copy from NotePad into WordPress.

    Or use Windows LiveWriter.

    Thread Starter Dot

    (@dianetingleyhotmailcom)

    Hey thanks for this
    but how come when I tap text into the visual editor – for example:

    hello
    hello
    hello

    When I publish it looks different; it comes out:

    hello hello hello?

    Thread Starter Dot

    (@dianetingleyhotmailcom)

    Also I just copied the text to word pad – then copies and pasted from it onto the post and the same block effect (despite looking ok in the visual editor):
    http://deardot.com/?p=464

    :?/

    Ok, not a lot of solutions for these….
    Can you verify if you by accident have selected “Align Full” in your visual editor? it’s right above the textarea

    Also in the text editor options you have an option that enables you to paste from word, try that one too if you’d like to see if that way the input shows correct in the front end

    you could try an editor plugin like for example the ultimate tinymce or tinymce advanced

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ultimate-tinymce/
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tinymce-advanced/

    for me, using those fixed the problems with the line breaks being erased when saving a posting.

    @dianetingley: Try this:

    1. Type your poem out in something like NotePad with all of the line breaks that you want.

    2. Copy the text into the Visual Editor.

    3. Highlight the copied text.

    4. In the second row of the Editor toolbar, use the dropdown on the left to select Preformatted.

    5. Save your work.

    The poem will now be displayed with all of your original line breaks intact.

    first format your poem in any editor which u want then pest in visual editor.

    @mukesh27: as has already been established in this thread, that won’t work and is a very bad idea.

    Thread Starter Dot

    (@dianetingleyhotmailcom)

    Hi
    Thanx Esmi – the preformatting did do it:)
    Still – I was wondering why the funny video shot type treatment of some of the text; with the side winder; It seems if I try to put a space it inserts one of those; why?

    http://deardot.com/?p=464

    Not totally sure what you mean by “funny video shot type treatment…with the side winder”

    If you mean the horizontal scroll bar that is enclosing the text starting with “MID MAY…” it’s because you put that text inside <pre> tags. The way those tags work is that they preserve any formatting of the text that is inside the tags (including spaces and returns) — so evidently the text in that section had no returns in it — i.e. it was all on one line — auto line breaks in a text editor or Word are not treated as actual returns.

    You can use CSS to set how text inside <pre> tags is displayed — in your site this is the current CSS code for it:

    pre {
        background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #F4F4F4;
        font: 13px/1.5 "Courier 10 Pitch",Courier,monospace;
        margin-bottom: 1.625em;
        overflow: auto;
        padding: 0.75em 1.625em;
    }
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