New HTML Tab*&^???

  • I am not experienced with HTML but have picked up the basics recently. I’ve been trying to achieve a quite tricky effect with pictures inserted into posts, and I think the new functionality is ruining it for me!

    I am talking about the new HTML editing tab that’s been added to the latest version of WP.
    When I say that I want a Div and save, this functionality changes it to <p>!! That’s not what I want!

    It is doing a few other similar types of things as well and as a result I cannot achieve the effects that I want

    Has anybody else had problems with the HTML editing?
    What’s a good way of inserting
    blog updates without using WPs admin console?

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  • Option 1) Turn off the tabbed (wysiwyg) editor. Users -> Your Profile. Uncheck the top box. See if that makes a difference?

    Option 2) See Weblog_Client for a big list of alternatives.

    Thread Starter jojo0507

    (@jojo0507)

    Hi!
    Thanks for posting the list. I will definitely check that properly tomorrow

    It should be possible to nest HTML code right?
    Well it doesn’t seem to be possible from the WordPress HTML editor!

    I turned off the wysiwyg editor, but the problem I was having was in the HTML tab anyway, not in the wysiwyg.

    I’d prefer an html entry that was just like notepad over what is there right now.

    It is extremely irritating to save a Div and discovered that I am being patronized by a piece of software that reckons I ought to have a <p> and over-rides my save without even telling me… !

    I turned off the wysiwyg editor, but the problem I was having was in the HTML tab anyway, not in the wysiwyg

    If you’re using a tabbed editor, you haven’t turned off WYSIWYG yet.

    Thread Starter jojo0507

    (@jojo0507)

    Hi,
    I am pretty sure I turned it off. I followed your advice.
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    “Use the visual editor when writing” = unchecked
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    But the problem remains, as I said.
    It’s correct that the tabs go away though, and only the “html” option remain.

    (Also, the fact that the actual html appears in the text are a for composing the post is a sign that it is not the wysiwyg editor…)

    Unless there is some kind of misunderstanding I guess I need to find out how to post without using the WP interface, at least until it is fixed, or this behaviour (if intended) gets changed.

    I can’t be the only person who has experienced this!

    It sounds very much like this thread…
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/103816?replies=7

    Thread Starter jojo0507

    (@jojo0507)

    Thanks Moshu! I checked that thread.. My problem is a dupe of that; reproducible by editing in the HTML editor (after having disabled the wysiwyg). Save a div called mydiv. Refresh. View the code again and find a p class called mydiv!

    Also my closing of divs and p classes does not seem to get properly saved.

    I have definitely turned off the wysywyg editor. The tabs are gone and the relevant tickbox is uncheced.

    The post you refer to seems to have been solved by the user turning of the wysiwyg editor!

    It doesn’t work in my case. I’ll double check one last time, but really I already have, several times.

    I am not good enough at HTML to be cocky and shout “bug” with confidence. But it looks like it to me. Can’t think of any reasonable explanation for this behaviour.

    Thread Starter jojo0507

    (@jojo0507)

    This problem is repeated when I used the third party blog poisting software as well!

    How bizarre!
    Perhaps it’s something to do with how the code gets stored in MySQL. Or maybe some obscure WP function does some kind of processing of the html code. Weird. I really haven’t a clue.

    I solved the problem by using a customised P class. I would have preferred a div though.

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