Title: Visual Editor Strips CSS and HTML
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Visual Editor Strips CSS and HTML

 *  [doortoriver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doortoriver/)
 * (@doortoriver)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-strips-css-and-html/)
 * Hello! I use WordPress on a lot of sites, and I’m really hoping there’s a way
   around this problem.
 * Whenever I switch to the Visual Editor, it strips out half my code and adds (
   or removes) very weird spaces.
 * It’s very simple code, too – things like ‘target=”paypal”‘ for the paypal buttons
   one of my clients uses. That’s an important piece of coding. It’s incredibly 
   frustrating to have it disappear any time I go to the Visual Editor.
 * Is there a way to work around this problem? I’d hate to simply have to not use
   the Visual Editor ever again, as it’s very helpful for positioning elements.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-strips-css-and-html/#post-1583176)
 * Sorry but if you insist on using the Visual Editor, you have to accept that it
   will have unpredictable results on your markup & CSS. HTML markup belongs in 
   the HTML tab.
 *  Thread Starter [doortoriver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doortoriver/)
 * (@doortoriver)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-strips-css-and-html/#post-1583299)
 * Thanks for your reply!
 * I understand that to some extent. It’s just a shame because it makes WordPress
   less user-friendly. It means that my clients – who barely know HTML – can’t do
   things like paste their paypal buttons into the post, then return to the WYSIWYG
   editor to complete making the page.
 * Something to hope for in the future!
 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-strips-css-and-html/#post-1583303)
 * try your luck with [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tinymce-advanced/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tinymce-advanced/)
 * I forget what all it allows, but it definitely gets rid of some of the annoyances
 *  [eduguytoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eduguytoo/)
 * (@eduguytoo)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-strips-css-and-html/#post-1583432)
 * Yes, I just spent about 30 minutes formatting a post, and after submitting it,
   Poof everything is gone, this is perhaps Evil, and what makes it even worse is
   that by default if you load up the post, in view format and then click html, 
   Poof, its gone again, is there not some kind of better editor than the two cylinder
   thing that comes standard, I mean wordpress has really come along way, but this
   crazy formatting issue is just too much, there must be a better way.
 * Foliopress WYSIWYG seems like a nice choice, anyone know of any other solutions
   to the FUBAR of what comes standard here
 *  [xxbossmanxx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xxbossmanxx/)
 * (@xxbossmanxx)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-strips-css-and-html/#post-1583435)
 * As a designer I setup my client with nice pages and nice html code expecting 
   the client to be able to mod text and images in the visual mode but yep, it breaks
   my html. Not good.
 *  [eduguytoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eduguytoo/)
 * (@eduguytoo)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-strips-css-and-html/#post-1583436)
 * I sort of wanted to have a look at being able to toggle different editors, since
   some editors work better when your trying to format text and others work better
   for creating tables and images, also some plugins work only with the default 
   editor, (buttons and such) I noticed that there is an entirely new line of editors
   being introduced at various email clients, yahoo beta, has an interesting tool
   bar.

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 * [html](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/html/)
 * [visual editor](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/visual-editor/)

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-strips-css-and-html/#post-1583436)
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