No WYSIWYG editor ever matches the final displayed page exactly across all web browsers (over 300 different browsers last time I checked). This is even more so in WordPress where a site can any use one of thousands of themes.
Actually I don’t think that’s the issue; the visual editor doesn’t represent the changes in the very same browser on the very same machine the adjustments are made.
It’s almost as if a the VE uses one CSS and the page uses another.
It simply doesn’t make sense (and revolves more around next lines, etc. than anything else – the VE shows it fine, but the save/review strips them all out, etc)
You would need to create a CSS sheet for the editor that matched your theme. The TwentyTen theme has just such a stylesheet, so you might want to look at that theme as an example.
What’s odd is even using the TwentyTen theme results in the same problems. Are you talking about something I need to do beyond simply using the TwentyTen theme? (i.e. after I switch to TwentyTen do I need to change settings?)
Not other setting change is needed. Have you tried deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem? It could be a plugin’s CSS that is interfering with the final display. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
Yah, the individual who was experiencing this problem simply reverted back to their Dreamweaver built site. It’s quite unfortunate that such problems exist with WordPress – one shouldn’t have to deal with multiple CSS systems interfering with a visual standard – would be nice if they address this in the future. No matter what we did, it simply never matched (Chrome and IE). I use WordPress for multiple sites and it looks fine, but I wasn’t trying to do the advanced formatting the individual I was working with was trying to achieve. My guess is it takes some pretty good internal finagling to refine and obtain 100% visual accuracy for more advanced layouts.
esmi – thanks for your time – I definitely appreciate it!
