Title: Squiggly red lines
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Squiggly red lines

 *  Resolved [Patricia Camp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/patricia-camp/)
 * (@patricia-camp)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/squiggly-red-lines/)
 * Using Firefox 30.0 or chrome 34.0.1847.131 m with windows 8. All of my pages 
   are normal except my static main page. When I open my static main page, which
   looks normal when viewed from the browser, I have squiggly red lines in place
   of the text which might be edited by spell check. When I click on select all,
   I can see the code for the page but can’t edit it. I have cleaned my cache, used
   both browsers, uninstalled and reinstalled wordpress, and disabled my plugins.
   Nothing seems to be working.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/squiggly-red-lines/#post-4911253)
 * Those “squiggly red lines” are coming from your browser add-ons/spell checkers–
   not WordPress.
 *  Thread Starter [Patricia Camp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/patricia-camp/)
 * (@patricia-camp)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/squiggly-red-lines/#post-4911257)
 * Thanks. However, now that I’ve turned off spell check, the page is completely
   blank. Select All still makes the code appear, but otherwise the page is blank.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/squiggly-red-lines/#post-4911258)
 * Blank at the front end of your site or the back? Have you tried:
 * – deactivating **all** plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works,
   re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
 * – switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.
 * – [resetting the plugins folder](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F)
   by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause
   problems.
 * – re-uploading all files & folders – **except** the wp-content folder and wp-
   config.php & root .htaccess files – from a **fresh** download of WordPress. Make
   sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new
   ones.
 *  Thread Starter [Patricia Camp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/patricia-camp/)
 * (@patricia-camp)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/squiggly-red-lines/#post-4911270)
 * thanks. kept deactivating until it worked.

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 * [blank-page](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/blank-page/)
 * [editing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/editing/)
 * [troubleshooting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/troubleshooting/)

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 * Last reply from: [Patricia Camp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/patricia-camp/)
 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/squiggly-red-lines/#post-4911270)
 * Status: resolved

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