Switching from HTML to Visual Ruins Post

  • jimmyth

    (@jimmyth)


    13 years, 10 months ago

    I’ve managed to make my page work by going back to previous revisions of the post but I would still like to figure out what’s happening with this. For this particular post and only this one, if I shift from writing in the HTML format to the Visual side of the editor, my post comes out scrambled in the preview — looks fine in the Visual side but in the preview page one or all of the photos and captions in the post will have been compressed to a single narrow column, either displayed on top of text or in sequence with text (not embedded in the text as they should be). I can still work with a clean copy of this post in HTML and changes come out fine on the page, but any time I shift to Visual, oops, back to the revision list for a clean copy. Probably I’ve done something I shouldn’t, and it probably has to do with ads and photos, but beyond that I’m lost.

    Post is at http://jamestwohats.com/BackPackBlog/?p=1665

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    13 years, 10 months ago

    Due to the limitations of TinyMCE (what WordPress uses for the Visual editor), some formatting will be lost if you switch from the HTML editor to the Visual editor. If you know exactly which page this happens on, it’s best to stick with the HTML editor for that page. TinyMCE is really a great WYSIWYG editor, but it really wasn’t designed to work alongside another editor like WordPress’ HTML editor.

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