Editor in wordpress not behaving itself
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I’ve just started playing around with WordPress and am having a problem with the page editor. I am trying to create a page with pictures, plus a line or two of descriptive text for each picture. I want the pictures to be left hand justified and the text to appear to the right of each picture. However, wordpress doesn’t dispaly the text in the same position on the page as it does in the editor. It is currently placing all the text in the same position at the top of the page, rather than where I placed the paragraphs next to the pictures in the editor.
If I insert a load of “X”s I can line the text up the way I want it, but surely I am missing something. This is the page I am having problems with:
http://dibbit.wordpress.com/profile-pics/
Thanks for any advice.
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Nothing wrong with the WP editor: left-alignment means text wrap-around, and the web standard is no more than a single line break.
You need coding for tables (in the html post or page editor). In its simplest form, that would be:
<table border="0"> <tr><td>IMAGE1_CODE_HERE</td><td>TEXT1_HERE</td></tr> <tr><td>IMAGE2_CODE_HERE</td><td>TEXT2_HERE</td></tr> <tr><td>IMAGE3_CODE_HERE</td><td>WORD3_HERE</td></tr> [etc.] </table> -
Thanks for that. I think I was expecting the editor to do more than it does and display on the webpage the same as in the editor – obviously not.
Any suggestions please for an editor that I can use that will allow me to format the page layout the way I want it without resorting to HTML?
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You’re welcome.
a) The editor cannot possibly do that: it’s a tool designed to work the same no matter what the theme you’re using, while themes vary greatly in main column width.
b) Windows Live Writer.
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