Title: Unexpected changes by the default WordPress editor
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Unexpected changes by the default WordPress editor

 *  Resolved [qad1a](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qad1a/)
 * (@qad1a)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unexpected-changes-by-the-default-wordpress-editor/)
 * My site was built by a web designer (he left 2 years ago), and I maintain it.
   He was using the plugin CKEditor to edit pages, which I deactivated in favor 
   of the default WordPress editor. I edit individual pages now, and sometimes I
   try to change the HTML directly. Occasionally, when I update a page then go back
   and look at the HTML, the spacing and tag positions are slightly different than
   what I saved! I can’t explain it, except for the possibility that my HTML was
   wrong and the default editor tried to fix it. Could this be a different problem,
   and how would I test for that? Thanks

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 *  [Matt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mzak/)
 * (@mzak)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unexpected-changes-by-the-default-wordpress-editor/#post-5346190)
 * Unfortunately this is a known issue with the TinyMCE editor. There are some plugins
   that try to address this ([https://wordpress.org/plugins/preserve-code-formatting/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/preserve-code-formatting/)),
   but personally I’ve always been inclined to just avoid switching back and forth
   as much as possible (depsite that being a bit of a pain).

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unexpected-changes-by-the-default-wordpress-editor/#post-5346190)
 * Status: resolved

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