<p> attributes disappearing

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  yitza · Member · Dec 19, 2008 at 2:56 am

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  I’m running a blog on wordpress.com. Everytime i update or write a new post, the attribute in <p> would go missing. It’s the same whether i add it in visual editor or manually type it out in html editor. Whenever i hit the update button, something like
  <p style=”text-align:left;”>blah blah</p>
  will become
  <p>blah blah</p>

  This only started happening today as i was editing a previously published post. All my old posts still have their <p> attributes, as long as i dont touch them.

  Help!

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  beemeister · Member · Dec 19, 2008 at 3:28 am

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  Well, all your posts are already <p style=”text-align:left;”> by default.

  Try logging out…restart browser…log in and see what happens.

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  beemeister · Member · Dec 19, 2008 at 3:32 am

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  In other words, your theme automatically left aligns all paragraphs.

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  yitza · Member · Dec 19, 2008 at 4:16 am

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  Ok I think that was a bad example. It will still strip the attributes for <p style=”text-align:right;”> or <p style=”text-align:center;”>

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  beemeister · Member · Dec 19, 2008 at 4:26 am

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  I noticed that some other posters are reporting similar problems. Perhaps it is a bug.

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  drbobbs · Member · Dec 19, 2008 at 6:33 am

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  Yeah, we all seem to be having the same basic problem: Formatting is somehow being deleted when you save, publish, or preview a post.

  I hope the WordPress Overloads are following this. It sounds like a systemic problem.

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  tellyworth · Staff · Dec 19, 2008 at 7:52 am

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  The problem with attributes getting stripped should be fixed now. You can use the Post Revisions box on the Edit Post tab to recover an earlier version of your post with formatting intact.