schadeboy2

I am having a similar issue. I have noticed that WP 2.0.2 is inserting <div> tags in my posts. It doesn’t always happen, but it mostly seems to happen when I insert an image using an URL reference and try to center it on the page.

I haven’t found any help on this issue in this forum yet, and am considering starting a new thread on it.

not only do you register to chastise the way people respond to someone…

Actually, ladydelaluna, I have been registered for a while. I had to do a new registration today because for some reason, WordPress decided not to remember me. I was unable to log in with my old credentials, so I had to create new ones.

And it is not my habit to make comments that insight descent or cause strife. I am usually very mellow and avoid conflict. In this case, though, I felt I had to say something. Being a new user to WordPress myself, I found it very rude and condescending for Whooami to respond the way she did. It was uncalled for.

Therefore, in my opinion and through my experience, wordpress does not insert <div> tags, and perhaps it’s YOUR method of posting (copy and pasting from elsewhere, say another site or a word processor/document perhaps?) that might be causing that to happen. However the fact remains that wordpress itself does not add <div> tags. I’m quite sure that if it did, the issue would’ve been resolved in the ongoing development of the software, probably long ago, in fact. Time to take a little internal peek at yourself, dear. It might just be YOU who’s wrong.

My method of posting is by typing directly into the WordPress editor. I use the very tools WordPress gives me to add content, including posting images using the upload feature. I have not used any other method, and when I go into the HTML editor for WordPress, I have seen the <div> tags. It usually doesn’t happen, but I’ve seen it periodically in the very short time I’ve used WordPress.

It’s quite unfair of YOU to assume that everyone uses wordpress the way YOU do, and provide your “solutions” based solely on the way YOU misuse the software.

Now who’s putting words in who’s mouth, huh? First of all, I don’t misuses the software. Second, I never assumed anything. I merely offered a suggestion based on my own experience. As I stated above, I am not doing anything out of the ordinary with WordPress. I’m using the very tools it provided with no modifications. I’m not sure exactly how you came to presume that I am misusing the software unless, of course, you “assumed” that’s what I’m doing.

Regardless of the “tone” of whooami’s posts – she was never NOT helpful. She still gave links to where the problem had been solved before. Unlike yourself, who decided that you wanted to be a martyr today, and offer up random “just me” type of resolutions amidst your attacks on the rest of us. Good goin’ preacher boy.

I never suggested she wasn’t. I never denied that she didn’t post links to help Deb0 find her way around. I think tone is extremely important when providing help. If I go to someone asking for assistance, and the tone they respond with is condescending, rude, and in some cases insulting, giving me every indication that I’m a bother just by asking, then what incentive do I have to seek help again? Certainly not from the person who I just asked.

My tone wasn’t any better, I know. For that I apologize. And I’m certainly not about to tell you or anyone else how to feel. I’m just saying that there’s two ways to tell someone something. You can be condescending and rude, or you can be nice and easy to deal with. It’s possible to say “Go look it up” either way. That’s the only point I was trying to make with this whole thing.

Deb0, I apologize for turning this into a slamfest. It was not my intent. If I could rescind my comments, I would.

You’re right, Whooami, you’re right. People constantly ask questions that have been asked before, and it gets tiring, and obviously the only way to deal with it is to give rude, sarcastic comments and be done with it instead of pointing them nicely in the correct path for the help they seek.

I don’t think that there was any possible way for you to say something like, “here’s a thread you might be interested in reading, Deb0.” The only way to make sure Deb0 never asks another question is to be bitchy.

I’m suddenly very glad that my instructors in college never took this approach.

Oh, and Whooami – I’m not sure exactly what your comment about validation errors has to do with the topic at hand, but I think you for bringing them to my attention.

ladydelaluna – I have had problems with the WordPress editor inserting <div> tags within my posts in the past, and I get the exact problem that’s been described here. I’m sure that because you have never received such tags, that is just cause for saying it never happens, and therefore I am obviously delusional.

Well, we wouldn’t want to actually be nice in our response, now would we. After all, we don’t want to encourage people to seek help from this community, do we? What would the world think if, when someone came to this forum for help, they actually got help from nice people.

I don’t know what’s worse, people asking for help on topics that have been well covered, or the snippy, snide remarks from people who are “tired of hearing the same questions.” You realize that you pretty much used the same amount of energy being rude and mean as you would have if you had simply answered the question?

Debo – I’ve had the same problem. I would search the links that have been posted here, but also look at the post in question. I’ve noticed that sometimes, if WordPress sticks multiple <div> tags in the post, that problem can crop up. Delete the <div> tags in your HTML source for the post, and see if that helps out.

See how easy that was, guys?

-Schadeboy