Title: WordPress autoformat weirdness
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# WordPress autoformat weirdness

 *  [MyrddinDE](https://wordpress.org/support/users/myrddinde/)
 * (@myrddinde)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-autoformat-weirdness/)
 * Hello,
 * I am running the latest wordpress on a multisite and been running it for years.
   With growing experience though more and more fancy options come up where wordpress
   just stands in the way.
 * I don’t write clean code, but what the autoformat is jsut doign realyl weird 
   stuff at times, e.g.
 *     ```
       <span><select id="itemcat" onchange='itemcat()'>
       	<option value="1">Items</option>
       </select></span><span id="dd1"><select id="1" name="1" onchange='getskcode()'><option value="" selected="selected"></option>
       	<option value="39be5">Ultimate Healing Potion</option>
       </select></span>
       ```
   
 * and autoformat turns it into
 *     ```
       <span><br />
       <select id="itemcat" onchange='itemcat()'>
       <option value="1">Items</option>
   
       </select>
       <p></span><span id="dd1"><br />
   
       <select id="1" name="1" onchange='getskcode()'>
       <option value="39be5">Ultimate Healing Potion</option>
       </select>
       <p></span>
       ```
   
 * I find that a bit weird and saw posts like “Turn visual editor off!” and in fact
   I did for this example. Why can’t we have an option to just disable this for 
   a post with a lot of customization, without having to use an extra plugin for
   it. Or am I overlooking something?
 * Thanks for feedback
 * Michael

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