html won’t save

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  pigeonchess · Member · Jul 11, 2023 at 3:47 am

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  Using the classic editor, I make changes to the html but after I press the update button the changes disappear, reverting back to the previous version.

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  staartmees · Member · Jul 11, 2023 at 6:41 am

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  You can’t just use any html code on the wordpress.com platform – https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/custom-html-block/#supported-html-tags

  Instead of hassling around with html codes and the old classic editor, why don’t you make the switch to the Block Editor? The switch ain’t that difficult and you’ll find it works much easier.

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  pigeonchess · Member · Jul 11, 2023 at 6:51 am

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  That has not been my experience RE: the Block Editor vs the classic but regardless. I am not using just any code. I copied and pasted code from a different post that it is working fine in (and has for years). When I paste it into the post in question (an older post that I am trying to fix) it will show as working correctly when I switch back to visual editing, however when I save the changes the new code disappears and is replaced by the old code. I am only trying to replace this:

  <blockquote style=”background-image: url(‘http://pigeonchess.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/pigeon_flying-xx.png’);”>

  with this:

  <blockquote style=”background-image: url(‘http://pigeonchess.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/pigeon_flying-xx.png’); background-repeat: no-repeat;”>

  So the background image doesn’t repeat infinitely.