Rich editor html popup empty

Try Firefox 1.5.0.2 now OK like Opera 9pre2.

Well, something fisy here. I do use FF 1.5.0.2, but can’t get it work. I can go to my profile and change the editor options as needed, but it’s not a very smoth solution.

I’m running Firefox 1.5.0.6 and WordPress 2.0.4 under Windows XP Professional.

Making a new post is OK and I can paste in html code after pressing the ‘html’ button on the editor.

But as soon as I press ‘html’ to edit the post, I get the blank page problem.

IE and Opera don’t have this problem – everything works as specified with these browsers.

Now with the increasing popularity of Firefox more and more bloggers are going to hit this problem, so perhaps the excellent people at WordPress could speak to the excellent people at Firefox to identify and resolve the problem!

Hi, Gang,

Just joined this forum to try to find a solution to this empty HTML source window wehn trying to write posts and pages. I have the latest versions of WordPress and Firefox and IE 7 Beta 3 on Windows XP. The HTML popup window worked fine until a week or ten days ago. I don’t know if it was after Firefox updated itself or after my Norton Security upgrade. But now the HTML window does not work in eiteher Firefox or IE 7. In Firefox the HTML soruce window opens, but it is empty. In EI7 the popup never opens at all, but there security frame at the top to tell me a pupup was blocked and giv e me the option to allow it; just nothing happens when i click on the HMTML button in the rich text editor (it goes dark for an instant, but there is no popup).

Also, when I un-check the option “Users use visual rich text editor by default”, as suggested in an earlier post, the editor STILL converts to rich text, raher than allowing me to write HTML. Very frustrating!

Don’t know how to check my Norton settings, but I guess I’ll be learning. ?? Not too hopeful that will bgear fruit.

Please share a solution if you find one!

Warmly,

Don ??

Hi, Again,

Okay, gonna look through the forums more before posting again. Just found another thred on this topic, not as helpful as this one. But someone there did point out that there is an option to use the rich text editor at the bottom of the personal profile (under the Users menu). When I un-checked that one, too, I was able to get the oldstyle HTML editor. At least that’s something. Still want to get the tinyMCE editor fixed, though.

Why do these programs have the same option in more than one place?

Don ??

The first one you found sets the default for ALL users.

The second one you found is specific to You, the current user and overrides the default.

Hi HandySolo! I’ve been trying to crack a problem with the editor too. In IE7 it works fine but in FF2 in keeps deleting sections of the code. I thought it was FF but having been through them it’s not. Anyone any ideas?? The only thing I’ve found is to use IE7 for WordPress and FF for everything else but that’s a bit daft!!

What sort of code is getting deleted?

Are you adding it directly to the WYSIWYG editor? That’ll hose it up. In fact, it seems that adding code via the WYSIWYG html popup rarely fares much better (at least for me).

If the code is javascript type stuff, check out Otto’s javascript preserver plugin. If the code is youtube type stuff, there are some good plugins for that. Or, just (temporarily) disable the wysiwyg thing and add code via the “classic” editor for much fewer headaches.

Users -> Your Profile, bottommost checkbox.

Thanks mate, will try that. You might like to look at this thread on Mozillazine for their views: https://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=2562290#2562290
. . . then again, maybe you’ve got better things to do! ??
Thanks again.

I’m experiencing this problem as well but I’ve noticed that people are saying that it works in IE so I decided to try a FireFox extension that I have installed called IE Tab which basically allows you to view a page as though you were running IE. Using this extension now allows the edit HTML to work. It’s a work around but it beats having to go to the user profile, uncheck the rich editor option, going back to edit the page/post, blah blah blah, and it allows me to continue to work in FireFox.

Hi, sorry for taking so long, hope you’ve got this RSS thing-ied . . . ! I’ve been struggling with that too on FF, hence the delay. I’ve given up and started using a freestanding app called RssReader. It’s OK but a pain to have it all unintegrated. Anyway . . . thanks for the suggestion, I’ve checked it out but can you help with this: I’ve stopped using IE because everytime I use it I get a virus (exagerration but . . . ) does installing the extension bring with it the problems?

Do you have any idea why this would work. It’s actually some javascript I’m having the problems with. I tried switching the editing mode but it didn’t fix the problem. I REALLY don’t want to use IE.