Rich Text Editor Problem – 2.1

I have the same problem. It happens only with IE6 on one of my machines. In Firefox is working fine. I have another machine in which TinyMCE is working fine. Very strange.

Hi,

I had this same problem and was able to correct it in the most odd way possible. This worked for me:

Go to options and in the field labeled ‘WordPress Address (URL):’ make sure that the URL entered in this field has a ‘www’ in it. I don’t know why it works to fix the problem but it does for me on all five of my blogs.

When I first set up the domains, I had it registered as ‘blog.mydomain.com’ and was having the www removed if someone typed it in. When I entered the field info above, I put it in as ‘https://blog.mydomain.com’. TinyMCE went south. As soon as I allowed ‘www.blog.mydomain.com’ and entered that URL ‘https://www.blog.mydomain.com’ into the field above the TinyMCE started working like a champ. If I remove it, the tabs go blank, I lose my formatting buttons and can’t edit the code.

Hope this helps someone because I spent two months trying to figure out what was going on.

I have two issues that seem unrelated, but I think they are related. Thus they are posted here.

First, I get corrupt output every so often. Usually when logging off or using the editor. I see random code, mostly three boxes, some html and something about atom feeds. The only common element I’ve see so far is the three boxes just inside a chevron that are considered incorrect characters. If they display as boxes they are probably incorrect for the character coding being used or specified.

I’ve tried messing with PHP and searching for bugs but the only php match was corrected back in 2003. (system specs at bottom)

Second, I suspect the corruption and tiny mce issues are related, possibly to the character encoding specified somewhere?

Every so often my output gets corrupted in such a way that it doesn’t mess up the screen but random garbage appears, usually above the editor window. It seems to be related to something in wordpress, an imporperly coded block perhaps, more than likely something to do with output since the corruption only occurs under wordpress and it’s very sporadic, like when certain code gets executed…

System:
X86 Server 2003
-System software-
IIS 6.0
PHP 5.2.3
MySQL 5.027
-Web scripts-
Gallery2 2.2
TNG (Next generation of genealogy)
Wordpress

WordPress is the only application that displays corrupt output so it’s unlikely there is an issue with the underlying configuration.
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My rich text editor has completely disappeared…
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So I know how you feel. I’m guessing this happened because of some new plugin I tried installing…but I’m not sure. I de-activated all the new plugins, deleted them all, and it still isn’t working…*sigh*

Turned out to be windows so I upgraded to fedora and it’s now 100 times faster and things work fine. It’s some kind of issue with PHP and IIS.

happy you solved your problem.

Using version 2.3, I had the same problem, but was finally able to fix it when I realized that it was a directory permissions problem.

For some reason my javascript directories where set as 644 and they need to be 755 (at least for me). After changing this, the problem still was not resolved, but at least the choice to use the Visual Editor now appeared in my profile. Then I installed the Tiny Style plugin and everything worked like it was supposed to. Hope that helps.

Hi Psychosmurf,

Your WWW trick SOLVED my problems too! I’m using W2K , IE6…plus some other WP Blogs- and once I checked the other ones- they all had WWW in the address line, while the one giving me the problems didn’t… Once I added the WWW it was FIXED!

THANKS!

YE! WWW trick solved the problem for me too. Thanks ??

Rafael,
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