Editing comment breaks paragraph tags

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    ministrywatchman · Member ·

    I have a WordPress (2.0.4) blog that’s been commercially hosted for several months, so I’m not entirely a novice with WordPress.

    I also just set up a WordPress hosted blog and am experiencing a weird problem I’ve never seen on our commercially hosted WordPress blog.

    If I attempt to edit a comment (which BTW will only display as html, unlike our other WordPress blog) and then save, it breaks all the paragraph breaks.

    In checking the html it strips all the </p> tags and replaces them with <br />. But the weird thing is it doesn’t strip out every single one of the <p> tags along with all the </p> tags. Very weird. How is this html or xhtml compliant?

    So I tried using two consecutive <br /> tags. No dice on that either! GRRRRR! What is going on? Does this mean that I’m stuck with never ever being able to edit any comments?

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    sunburntkamel · Member ·

    you should try sending in feedback, since i’ve not had that problem.

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    vivianpaige · Member ·

    For whatever reason, the staff decided to change the comment editor to HTML only. What I do is to change the tag and put in a tag. Doesn’t always take the first time but after a couple of tries, it works.

    This is a major headache for me and one I not only written about in these forums but sent in feedback about on several occasions. It makes editing comments almost impossible.

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    I’ve had the same problem, but I live with it. It’s annoying, no question.

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