Indenting Glitch in Visual Editor
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This one’s simple: I paste plaintext into the visual editor – trying it through notepad to eliminate most hidden codes – make a list, and try to italicize and indent subsections of the list. This displays properly in the visual editor, but when I publish the page what I see is not a list with indentations, but a list which has an unwanted space above the text which is supposed to be indented, the next section is then outdented, and the following section is (again) not indented. Clearing the formatting and trying again, reopening it from the blog, or wiping it and repasting from notepad, does not help – as this post ( http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/classical-archetypes-the-knight/ ) shows. I didn’t seem to have a problem doing this last month. Did something change? If so, is there a workaround?
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The unordered list has a bunch of things wrong with it including unordered lists inside of unordered lists.
First off, go to settings > writing and select “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” and then click “save changes.”
My suggestion is to delete the text, paste it back in and then in the visual editor select all the text you want to have in the unordered list and then click the unordered list button.
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Sadly, it’s been set to correct invalidly nested HTML for years, and still appears to be.
Equally unfortunately, pasting from plain text and reformatting does not work, erasing the existing formatting does not work, and saving and reopening it does not work.
The problem occurs when you take a series of plain text entries, make them into a list, and then attempt to indent sections of that list to create subsections.
This displays properly in the visual editor – but when you post it what you actually wind up with is a break in the list instead of an indentation, followed by another break, then an outdented section.
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I’ve set one of my test blogs to Digg and have no problems.
http://flippintestblog.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/unordered-list-multiple-levels/
What I did:
1. Enter first level item.
2. When you hit return for an item that you want on the second level, use the indent button on the lower tool bar, do not press the unordered list button again.
3. When you want to move back out to a higher level (say level 2 to level 1) use the outdent button ont he lower tool bar.Once in a list, use the outdent and indent buttons to move between levels.
This works on something pasted in as well. Select all the stuff that is going to be in the list and click the unordered list button. For any items you want to move to a lower level (more indent) put your cursor at the beginning of that line and click the indent button.
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Yes, this would indeed be the procedure the produces the problem. As stated:
“The problem occurs when you take a series of plain text entries, make them into a list, and then attempt to indent sections of that list to create subsections.”
I’ve been putting up lists in the same fashion for several years now – but it is no longer working properly.
I’m not quite sure where the notion of press the unordered list button again comes from though. What would be the point? You already have a list.
In any case, since your test did not reproduce the problem, that at least narrows the difficulty down; it may have something to do with the theme or other specific blog elements.
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@ruscumag
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@ruscumag, I just pasted a bunch of text into the end of that sample post I did, selected all of it, turned it into an unordered list and then went back through and put the cursor at the beginning of various parts and made them into subsections and sub-subsections and did not have a problem. I then went back in and changed the indent on several, updated the post and checked again and all was well and reflected just what I did in the editor.
http://flippintestblog.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/unordered-list-multiple-levels/
What browser and browser version are you using?
What are you writing your post in on your computer and are you setting up the list in that program before trying to paste it?
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Ah well. I reported it awhile ago; I was just hoping that someone here might have seen similar behavior.
As for Browsers, I got the same problem with Firefox 3.6.17 and two different versions of IE on separate machines. I usually paste plain text from Wordperfect 11, when that failed to work properly I went through Notepad, Wordpad, erasing the format with the eraser button, and going through manually in the HTML editor and killing all the tags before going back to the visual editor, making a list, and then trying to indent selected portions of it.
Since none of that worked, I left that post the way it was and waited to see if the problem popped up again the next time I needed to make such a list. Since it did, I put in a request to technical support and opened this thread to see if anyone else had such a problem.
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Hmmm, I can do it easily in Firefox 4 (and 3.6 before that) and in Safari and Opera so I don’t know what to say.
I hope you get it solved.
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