help—adding a post messes up formatting for all posts below.

  • Resolved lollymom

    (@lollymom)


    18 years, 3 months ago

    Please look at my site: lollymom.com

    I am a novice and still trying to fix my theme (questions in other places on this forum). But this problem, I think, is unrelated to my theme. (Don’t know for sure though.) It happened when I posted the second post from the top (2 pumpkins and. . .). I posted that one last night and changed the date (I had already posted the more recent post. It makes all the posts below it extremely narrow. Unpublishing it and saving it as a draft fixes the problem. What’s wrong with that post?

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  • Hi Lollymom

    You have a duplication of the code <div style="text-align: center"> on the post of “October 31st, 2006”. This means that all text beyond that point is centered.

    To solve the problem, edit the entry for “October 31st, 2006” and click on the “HTML” button. (Be VERY careful what you do here – as a mistake can mess up your site even more.) You need to delete the duplicate code <div style="text-align: center">, which I think is at the start of the post.

    When finished click on “Update”, and hopefully, the problem should disappear.

    I suspect that this is caused by a bug in the WYSIWYG editor (TinyMCE) which doesn’t always balance its tags.

    For the benefit of others trying to solve similar problems, the technique I used is quite easy:
    1. Copy the source to a text editor (in Firefox: “View” -> “Page Source”, then select all (Ctrl-A) and copy (Ctrl-C).
    2. Save as a local html file
    3. View the local file in Firefox/IE. (click on the file in Explorer).
    4. If the CSS or JavaScript files haven’t loaded, check that they have the full URL in the source file and amend as necessary
    5. Search for the problem in the source and amend it – viewing in Firefox etc to see if it has been resolved.

    I have noticed that TinyMCE sometimes puts in spurious extra <strong> tags or even a <strong /> tag, which will cause the rest of the blog to appear in bold.

    Anyway, I hope this helps.

    Thread Starter lollymom

    (@lollymom)

    Thank you, Thank you!!! I am learning so much. Thank you so for helping out a stranger!

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