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1. I have to disagree on the doctype: out of the box the default theme does give the correct doctype. The unclosed meta tags were inserted manually by the user and they do not follow the xhtml rules.
2. We already discussed the horror-like character of the wysiwyg in several threads – and I guess we fully agree on that.
3. Good catch about the options. I forgot about it, although that’s among the first things I do after a new install.
4. Bug reports should be submitted to https://trac.www.ads-software.com/ (and not being a dev I know as much about future plans as you do)

Hi HandySolo,

I unchecked – still the WYSIWYG or the system manipulates the HTML. That actually was the first thing I tried when trying to tame that thing for my noobie client.

What is curious about this is that the Quicktags editor doesn’t do the same any which way. It’s only the WYSIWYG. What’s worse even, when I tried correcting tabular data in the Quicktags editor, saved and then opened the same page again in the WYSIWYG it barfed the same tagsoup AGAIN all over that page. And I guarantee, the auto-correction is definitely off.

Hello,

Thnaks for all the responses. I will go through everything and then post my results here.

Yes, I am using the Rich Text Editor and that does seem to be causing the problems. Also, when using that editor, occasionally, I would tweak the html because the editor was changing the line spacing.

I did see the Option and was thinking of turning it off. I wasn’t sure if that would stop the RTE from altering the code or not, but apparently it will stop it.

Also, for the record I wasn’t “angry” at the staff; just a bit frustrated right now. ??

I’ll go through everything and then let you know what happens.

Thanks so much.

lhk,

I did change the themes. Originally, I was using the default theme. After about 2 weeks, the problems started. Then I switched to the WP Classic Theme and the problem seemed to be resolved. Then I switched back to the Default theme (with my header). Now, 12 of the 15 pages are good and only 3 are misaligned.

To answer the rest of your questions; I am using the Rich Text Editor. Occasionally, I will tweak the html in that editor. Also, I manually put <center> tags in all my post titles in order to center the titles. I took all of them out last week and the problem wasn’t fixed, so I put them all back.

I was busy the last few days, but now I want to try to fix the problem and move on.

Thanks for replying, lhk.

moshu,

If you can stop watching baseball for a few seconds, we can go over this. ??

When I validated the code with the WP validator, it stated in many instances that I did not have a closing tag >. But when I checked the code, there were closing tags in the code. Most of the errors had to do with not having closing tags, so that’s why I mentioned that it was finding errors that weren’t there.

Next, I will take out all the center tags from the post titles again. You made a good point that even if that in and of itself doesn’t fix it, it will be easier to see what the remaining problems are. So I will follow your advice.

Next, you are right. I am using the RTE and I was altering the html manually on some occasions. The reason is that the RTE is not really a WYSIWYG editor. It’s really a WYSINWYG editor; that is What You See Is NOT What You Get. ??

Normally, I just type into the editor and get it to look exactly as I want it. Then when I save it, the formatting is changed and it looks different than what I want. So I do change the html code manually in the editor to try to fix it. I didn’t know that you weren’t supposed to do this. Thanks for telling me and I’ll try to stay away from doing that again. But that’s something that should be fixed.

I’ll go through the posts, for the 3 pages that are still misaligned, and try to correct things.

> And as a side note: you have a lot of inline style in your posts, like paragraph tag align:left – may I ask why? By default, the should be left aligned… <

I’m glad you asked. Maybe this is at the root of the problem. My biggest problem with the RTE is that it kept adding spaces between paragraphs. I would have one space and after I saved it, there would be 5 or 6 spaces. So I would manually delete them using the html option in the RTE.

The other problem was that I would always have a picture at the start of the post. I would always center the picture. Then, for the first lines of the post, under the picture, I wanted it left aligned. So I would select left aligned from the editor and the cursor would still be centered. When I inspected the html code, it was messed up. It would have the alignment as center and after that as left. So I would manually take out the center reference and then it would be left aligned for the text. This happened all the time, so that’s why the code is like that.

I will keep trying to fix things. If you can think of anything else, please let me know.

Thanks for your help.

1. Closing tags, an example.
For HTML4 an image tag like <img src="mycrazypic.jpg"> is OK.
For XHTML (the default doctype of WP) that won’t work – even single tags that don’t have a closing pair like <b> and </b> has to be “closed” so it should be:
<img src="mycrazypic.jpg" /> <== notice the space and /
That’s what the validator is crying about ??

2. All your PITA with those p and center tags would go away if you just kill that idiotic wysiwyg/rte/tinymc editor. I always disable it (don’t even tell clients about it, LOL), and on my installs I even delete it. Never had a problem with whatever code I put into my posts. It is that simple, believe me!

moshu,

Okay, thanks for all the tips. I will try out everything and then report my results back here.

Thanks.

Eureka! The problem is now fixed. For anyone following this thread, here is a summary of the problem and what I did to fix it.

Background: I use the Rich Text Editor (RTE) when posting entries to my blog. Sometimes I edit the html code in the RTE. I am using the default theme. The only thing I changed was the Header of the theme. Note that I also <center> the titles of my entries.

Problem: After posting a number of entries, the alignment of the pages was off. The header was off-center, the links on the sidebar were at the bottom of the page instead of at the top, etc.

NOTE: Below, you should use p where I have p-. I had to use p- so it would display properly in the message.

How I fixed the problem: I removed all the <div> tags in my entries. For instance, this is what was there:

<div style=”text-align: center”> ……… </div>

I changed it to this:

<p style=”text-align: center”> ……… </p->

Voila! After I did this, the alignment was perfect again. Note that I still have the <center> tags in the titles of all my entries, yet everything is fine now.

Summary: Change all your <div></div> tags to <p-></p-> tags and you should not have an alignment problem. (Remember to use p and not p-.)

Thanks to everyone for the help and good luck to anyone else with this problem.