Inconsistency between Visual Editor and Preview
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When I’m editing my page with the Visual Editor, it looks just like I want it to. But when I go to preview it, it looks very different, and very bad. I’ve tried to change some of it, but it doesn’t seem to work. Any ideas?
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We need a link to the post you are talking about. Have you published it?
“… and very bad.” gives us little to go on and it would be best if we could see the actual post.
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Hey, I think I’m having a similar problem, but I can’t tell if I’m being an idiot or not.
Here’s my blog before I even ask a question: http://tonyandmeagan.wordpress.com/
When I edit my blog in visual mode, I just use the return key to align my text with the images, but when I publish it or even preview it, that spacing disappears. I would LOVE some help with this, I’ve been going a little crazy trying to figure it out myself so I thought I’d just suck up my pride and ask.
Thanks for your help in advance :)
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If the text that you want beside the image is less than the height of the image, then everything else gets pulled up since the image has a right or left alignment on it. There is a trick that can be used, but the problem is that you have to wait until the very end since you have to switch to the HTML tab, put in the code and then immediately publish the post. If you later edit the post, the code will be stripped out by wordpress.
I really wish staff would come up with a way to do this that does not get stripped out by the wordpress software.
At any rate, this is the code you would enter.
<br style="clear:both;" />Again you have to go through and put those in in the HTML tab and then after they are all inserted you have to publish immediately. Do not do a “save draft” as that will strip out the code.
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BTW, the reason you cannot use multiple returns is that multiple returns between paragraphs (empty paragraphs really) is not to HTML standards. That is why they get stripped out. Some platforms allow that, but strictly speaking it is NOT correct HTML.
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Thanks so much thesacredpath, that gave me enough to make it a LOT better–and also thanks for not making me feel like too much of a newbie!
Maybe if I want it centered I can enter some lines of text and just color them white before I publish…?
Anyway, thanks a TON for your help, you saved me plenty of headaches!
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You are welcome and it looks much better now. You can use paragraphs with just a single period in them and then change the color on the period to the same color as the content background. That works and might be better than actually putting in text which could confuse the search engines.
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