Title: Please stop breaking my post HTML.
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Please stop breaking my post HTML.

 *  Resolved [AudiblySilenced](https://wordpress.org/support/users/audiblysilenced/)
 * (@audiblysilenced)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-stop-breaking-my-post-html/)
 * Please stop changing the HTML I type in my posts – _especially_ when I’ve written
   valid code and it’s automatically changed to an invalid form (e.g., 
    becoming
   an actual line break within the HTML), but also in general. Fixing coding errors
   is a feature; changing it without the author’s permission and breaking it are
   not features.

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-stop-breaking-my-post-html/#post-2203229)
 * Uh … What?
 * Are you talking about WP editing code in a post or the forums?
 * Are you using the HTML editor or the Visual one?
 *  Thread Starter [AudiblySilenced](https://wordpress.org/support/users/audiblysilenced/)
 * (@audiblysilenced)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-stop-breaking-my-post-html/#post-2203235)
 * Oops, I suppose I could have been clearer. >_<
 * I mean using the HTML editor to write posts on my WP installation. This is something
   it has done at least since I started using it around version 2.7.
 * **EDIT:** I’ll write my HTML, then save, publish, update, preview, or just look
   at the visual editor, then go back to the HTML editor to keep writing to find
   my code has been modified (generally by adding unnecessary extra tags or otherwise
   making it overall worse).
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-stop-breaking-my-post-html/#post-2203237)
 * Aaaaah! Okay. For one, don’t switch between Visual and HTML editor. Really. It’s
   a known issue with TinyMCE and it’s implementation. Bugs everyone. If you use
   the Visual editor, use it and stick with it. If you use the HTML one, ditto. 
   But switching back and forth’ll drive you bonkers.
 * Note: SIMPLE posts, like the basic HTML stuff, is fine with this. But anything
   special and custom gets lost. And if you’re writing code to show in your posts,
   don’t use the visual editor at all.
 *  Thread Starter [AudiblySilenced](https://wordpress.org/support/users/audiblysilenced/)
 * (@audiblysilenced)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-stop-breaking-my-post-html/#post-2203245)
 * Huh. Never knew that. I’ll try avoiding it and see how it goes.
 * Thank you, and I’ll mark this as resolved for now. 🙂

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