Title: WYSIWYG / HTML toggle button?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# WYSIWYG / HTML toggle button?

 *  [bvheide](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bvheide/)
 * (@bvheide)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wysiwyg-html-toggle-button/)
 * I’m curious if there’s anything out there that allows an author to toggle between
   WYSIWYG and HTML editing mode on the same page in WordPress 2.0 . It would be
   nice to do most work in WYSIWYG mode but when I needed to mess with the HTML,
   I could quickly switch over to see what’s been generated and edit that HTML.
 * Currently, I don’t see how to do that without saving the post, changing the user
   preference for editing the post to HTML mode and then going back into the post
   to edit it.
 * If there’s a plugin that allows this, I’d love to hear about it. Otherwise, I’d
   love it if someone better at code than I could make this a plugin.

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wysiwyg-html-toggle-button/#post-309468)
 * Isn’t there a “html” button in the wysiwyg editor that opens a small popup window
   that shows the thml code?
 *  Thread Starter [bvheide](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bvheide/)
 * (@bvheide)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wysiwyg-html-toggle-button/#post-309470)
 * When I click that button an empty window opens. Regardless of whether I highlight
   text prior to opening the window or whatever.
 * Well, not exactly empty…an html editor opens…it’s just that there’s nothing in
   it.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wysiwyg-html-toggle-button/#post-309479)
 * Hmmm. that’s strange. Of course, if there is nothing in the text input area –
   the window will be empty.
    However, in my install, if I already wrote something
   in the wysiwyg editor or I open an existing post/Page for editing – clicking 
   on the “html” button will open the window with the html code of the post.
 *  Thread Starter [bvheide](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bvheide/)
 * (@bvheide)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wysiwyg-html-toggle-button/#post-309533)
 * Yeah, that is strange. I just double checked my editor. It doesn’t work like 
   that. I wonder if this has something to do with the fact that I use Firefox?
 *  [josalmon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josalmon/)
 * (@josalmon)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wysiwyg-html-toggle-button/#post-309577)
 * It worked for me with FF 1.5
 *  [basilsblog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/basilsblog/)
 * (@basilsblog)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wysiwyg-html-toggle-button/#post-309738)
 * If I might expand on same topic:
 * >Isn’t there a “html” button in the wysiwyg editor that opens a small popup window
   that shows the html code?
 * Yes, there is a button that pops up an HTML editing window. But sometimes I prefer
   to use the HTML interface, similar to the old WP interface.
 * Also, if I use the HTML window to enter something, I want it to be left alone.
   I don’t want my code changed.
 * For example, I’ve also found that entering an anchor tag pointing to “#bookmark”
   in either the WYSIWYG or HTML windows doesn’t work well, because the editor changes
   it to “[http://myblog.tld/wp-admin/post.php#bookmark&#8221](http://myblog.tld/wp-admin/post.php#bookmark&#8221);.
   Consider that I have a bookmark that appears on all pages, and I don’t want to
   have to send someone to “/#bookmark” when I think I should be able to (used to
   be able to) send them to “#bookmark” on the current page.
 * Any suggestions?
 *  [basilsblog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/basilsblog/)
 * (@basilsblog)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wysiwyg-html-toggle-button/#post-309739)
 * Okay, I’m a dumbass. I admit it.
 * I just found the “Use the visual rich editor when writing” checkbox under “Personal
   Options” at the bottom of the user profile. That allows me to do exactly what
   I want to do. Although I do wish there was a toggle on the editor page.
 * Oh, the “#bookmark” issue only appears on the WSYIWYG editor. Everything is fine
   when using the HTML editor interface (not the WSYIWYG pop-up HTML editor).
 *  [gpaulson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gpaulson/)
 * (@gpaulson)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wysiwyg-html-toggle-button/#post-309940)
 * I agree. There should be a checkbox on the post & page editing screen to ‘toggle
   wsyiwyg’ that either stayed off till checked again or at least for this page 
   and then goes back to the default.
 * Right now you have to go to your User Profile to toggle it – go make changes –
   and then toggle it back. But since this is such a pain I just leave it off.
 *  [andreacimatti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andreacimatti/)
 * (@andreacimatti)
 * [19 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wysiwyg-html-toggle-button/#post-309955)
 * Does anybody know if someting has come up regarding the possibility to toggle
   between the tinymce and the oldstyle buttons directly in the post page?
 *  [clearblogs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clearblogs/)
 * (@clearblogs)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wysiwyg-html-toggle-button/#post-309959)
 * Try the new WP version… Your version is outdated
 *  [filination](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filination/)
 * (@filination)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wysiwyg-html-toggle-button/#post-309965)
 * I’m also interested in this functionality and haven’t seen it implemented anywhere.
   
   Is there anything that allows toggling TinyMCE and regular HTML edit on the post
   page, like the Blogger interface?
 * I would like to design the layout with a WYSIWYG and then be able to quickly 
   add a few javascript after that.

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