DIV tags within posts?

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  chocolateshavings · Member · Jul 29, 2007 at 11:30 am

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  Hello everyone.

  I am relatively new to wordpress and to CSS in general. I would like to use DIV tags within wordpress posts as I know they are a powerful structural element. However, it seems as if the editor deletes them right out of the code section! Is it then not possible to use DIV tags?

  Thanks!

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  mymyspacelayouts · Member · Jul 29, 2007 at 1:19 pm

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  The only div tag I know of is the center tag.

  < div align=”center” >< /div >

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  kimik0 · Member · Jul 29, 2007 at 3:06 pm

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  You could try using < p > < /p > tags instead. Paragraphs are much the same as divs.

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  atthe404 · Member · Jul 29, 2007 at 5:38 pm

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  The difficulty here is as the OP describes. We can not add divs. Adding another p is hopeless. Obviously.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 29, 2007 at 6:36 pm

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  By using the forum searchbox we find that this is a long standing and known “bug”. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=11555

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  timethief · Member · Aug 16, 2007 at 5:40 pm

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  The good news is that this bug has been fixed https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=14547

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  timethief · Member · Aug 16, 2007 at 5:41 pm

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  oops! I forgot to say thanks to staff :)

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  cityofedinburghbasketballclub · Member · Aug 18, 2007 at 8:25 am

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  I have been trying to use div tags to create a two column look for one of my pages, but they are constantly stripped out. I am trying to use a div tag styled with a width and float.

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  mymyspacelayouts · Member · Aug 19, 2007 at 1:36 am

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  Did you close the tag?

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  kimik0 · Member · Aug 19, 2007 at 1:40 am

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  COEBBC – Maybe you could use a table instead?

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  daveandlisa · Member · Aug 21, 2007 at 6:55 am

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  mymyspacelayouts – I did close the tag. I find the editor changes my div tag to p tags. I am confused.

  kimik0 – It would work, but I want to avoid tables as much as I can to stay W3C compliant.

  Anyone else have thoughts? I will post the code I am trying to use in a moment

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 21, 2007 at 7:23 am

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  Post teh code between backticks, otherwise it gets messed up. Backticks are the apostrophe like marks on the same key as ~

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  chocolateshavings · Member · Aug 25, 2007 at 11:50 pm

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  I’ve tested it out, but the program still strips out the div tags and replaces them by p tags? The only way around it is to disable the Rich Text editor, which I find useful….

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  nosysnoop · Member · Aug 26, 2007 at 5:24 am

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  I got p tags when I tried putting the codes of my Myspace layouts on my blog. It stripped the style and css codes. So I now put all the codes in a text file and upload them through WordPress.