can’t correct my formatting.
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wether i flow text from word or straight type it in…it gets wierd line breaks and spacing problems that i can’t fix. trying to fix it often makes it worse or cause further problems. what could be going on. sometimes my pages look horrible.
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What is the URL of your blog, starting with http? We need to look at it.
What browser and version are you using?
Please don’t ever paste from Word; if it hasn’t caused you problems yet, you’re lucky. It will.
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My formatting seems to completely disappear when I publish a post. The photos all clump up together and the text just finds its way in between them. I even tried just left aligning everything but it makes no difference.
When I open it to edit, everything is all clumped, and when I save it “corrected” it returns all messed up. Older posts are not this way. -
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looks fine to me. are you referring to this post?
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Sounds like a similar problem to that I’m having. Would someone mind having a look and tell me what I’m doing to cause this please?
Basically I’ve aligned everything left but every time I save and then preview it, it looks staggered in this diagonal effect!
I went back in and tried formatting with ‘heading’ and ‘paragraph’ but it’s done the same thing.
http://foxsden.wordpress.com/blasts-from-the-past/
Thanks
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No cut and paste from word, I hope?
Do you have the css-upgrade?
You could try putting a break after each bit of text (not very likely to solve it, but we’ll try the simplest first). -
Edit your post, switch to html view, locate the <img /> tags.
In each <img /> tag add the following to the style=”” attribute
clear: left;so it looks like
style="align:left;clear:left;"Save the post. That should hopefully end your sorrows.
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Hello foxsden,
That is weird but makes you’re post look cool if you don’t mind it being that way
I would leave it…. but if you don’t like it it’s probably a open HTML tag that needs
to be deleted,,,I viewed you’re post with Firefox 3.0
~Teck~
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the actual problem is that the Pix are so high and the text is so little that they are “stopped ” before they can float fully to the left.
The matter is a little complex and has to do with how the HTML elements are handled when floating.
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Thanks all for your comments.
@Boblets – No pasting here! I wrote it in the WP editor. I did try using
but it didn’t help. And I don’t have the CSS upgrade…I wouldn’t know what to do with it unfortunately.@Teck07 – I agree! I quite like it but I think that as I add to it I’ll eventually get so far over the right that the text will be really squashed up so it won’t work.
@deltafoxtrot – Thanks for that, I’ll give it a go and report back.
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If it doesn’t work, this will:
Add this line in HTML view before each <img />:
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Deltafoxtrot – it worked. Thanks for sorting that for me. And thanks everyone else for your help too.
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thanks to deltafoxtrot for his solution.But,are there no other ways to fix this problem?I have to include
<p style="clear:both;height:0;float:none;"> </p>for each line break which is really annoying.
It´s just a line break and not some über-geek issues. -
I think what delta is saying is you need to put that on your IMAGE, not your text. Or am I not reading this correctly?
You can also try using an offline blog editor; some of them will work around this problem entirely.
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What does it mean: “Don’t ever paste from Word”. Sometimes I have a document more than 6 pages, so I have to retype it again? Can I use a text editor like Wordpad or Notepad instead?
Roby
p.s. By the way, I do use Word and I think I found the technics how to deal with formatting the text (and I write in two languages: LTR and RTL, sometimes mixed).
After I paste the document I select it and then I press the left or right alingn icon. -
Notepad and Wordpad are both far superior.
If you do a forum search for Microsoft Word you’ll find many people who temporarily ruined their blogs by using it. And the longer you use it, the worse it gets when something finally does go wrong.
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One workaround is to paste your Word text into the HTML editor instead of the visual editor. That strips out all the horrific tags that Word puts into your text. Then click back to the Visual editor and format it.
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Word allows to save a document using many formats: RTF, Web page, Plain text, XML document (?), etc. I haven’t tried all these options yet, meanwhile I ams satisfied with pasting from Word document. Using a text editor or the WP editor means not to use different types of fonts!
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roby5167 – you may want to look at this FAQ: http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/11/09/why-not-to-use-word/
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