Title: WordPress and HTML
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# WordPress and HTML

 *  [liamini](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liamini/)
 * (@liamini)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-and-html/)
 * I’m trying to import some HTML pages into WP and I need to know what the limits
   are as far as WP is concerned, in other words, what HTML will it accept?
 * I’ve tried pasting in HTML code into the editor but I keep getting an error, ‘
   Script not responding or timed out’. It contained table code and some Java script,
   so I cleaned out all the table code and the Java and repasted it but still got
   the same error message.
 * Bill

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 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-and-html/#post-609601)
 * It’s generally a very bad idea to paste in HTML code. You can do it, and doing
   so will not result in the error you’re getting…. but WordPress expects you to
   type in text and a limited subset of HTML (formatting and such). If you’re using
   a lot of Javascript inside of posts, then you likely need to re-evaluate your
   site design and development strategy.
 *  Thread Starter [liamini](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liamini/)
 * (@liamini)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-and-html/#post-609624)
 * Hi,
    No I’m not (deliberately) using any Java, it’s mostly tables, which I stripped
   out anyway and URLs to files.
 * The main reason I asked was I have 1000s of files in my old HTML-based site that
   I’d like to have accessed from my new, WordPress site, so rather than pasting
   in the text and going through every link and adding in the URL, I thought there
   might be a quicker way, like cleaning out most of the HTML leaving just the links
   and the text.
 * Bill
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-and-html/#post-609648)
 * Oh, yes, that’s fine. You can paste the HTML straight into the code tab. The 
   links are standard A href’s and such, no issues there.
 *  Thread Starter [liamini](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liamini/)
 * (@liamini)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-and-html/#post-609755)
 * Then how come I’m getting errors like ‘script not responding’?
 * b
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-and-html/#post-609763)
 * Like I said earlier, that’s an entirely different kind of error. Usually it means
   that you’re being hosted on a shared server which is too overloaded to actually
   do anything useful.
 * My advice: Find another hosting service.

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 * [WordPress-2.2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wordpress-2-2/)

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