Stop butchering the formatting!!!
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This is one of the many pages on my site that I need to edit in code editor, and you’ve taken that ability away without butchering the formatting.
If this page is edited in nvisual editor, it by default creates a massive amount of undsirable whitespace. This could be overcome by clicking ‘write’ and switching to code editor before editing the page. Now you’ve taken that ability away, and I don’t appreciate that, forcing on me massive amounts of whitespace I don’t want immediately upon opening the page for editing. Please change it back or make some kind of workaround.
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What makes you think the whitespaces are undesirable? It’s common practice to make code easier to read.
Also the code editor is still available when you start a new page. You can switch in the right column between the visual and the code editor. -
Also the code editor is still available when you start a new page. You can switch in the right column between the visual and the code editor.
You didn’t understand my question at all. The whitespace I’m talking about is in how it’s displayed, not within the editor, and I’m talking about editing an existing page. It doesn’t do me any good to switch it to the code editor once the damage is already done, as stated in my original post.
I tried to paste in a graphic to show the difference, but it won’t let me.
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Hi there, from your screenshots, I’m not sure what I’m seeing. You mentioned this happens when you open the post in the Code Editor, but your screenshot shows the Classic Block.
Are you possibly using the Block Editor’s Code Editor to edit content previously written with the full Classic Editor? If that is the case, what happens when you open and edit the content via the Text editor in the full Classic Editor instead?
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The problem is that it was started in code editor. If I go into visual editor, it makes huge swaths of whitespace. The problem is that now I can’t go into code editor without going into visual editor first. Before, I could open a new post, switch it to code editor, and then open the existing post to edit and not have a problem. Now that is no longer possible, and I’m forced to go into the visdual editor first. That changes all the coding to add all the white space that I don’t want, and I don’t know how to get rid of it. One of my pages was completely ruined by all the automatic stuff that goes into visual editor. It kept generating whitespace because there was a missing >, and my computer was so slow that there was no way to fix the typo. The only way I was able to fix it was to blank the whole page, past it into Notepad, do the editing there, then replace it with the new version. I really don’t think I should have to do that to make small edits.
So yes, you were seeing the page in the visual editor, because the visual editor is mangling it and preventing me from editing.
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Hello again, thank for reiterating your process, but you might have overlooked my questions:
Are you possibly using the Block Editor’s Code Editor to edit content previously written with the full Classic Editor? If that is the case, what happens when you open and edit the content via the Text editor in the full Classic Editor instead?
Alternatively, have you tried clicking the ellipsis and editing your content as HTML?
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Hello again, I’m going to flag this thread for Staff attention. They might be able to see something in that post that I’ve overlooked. Thanks for your patience.
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Sorry about that!
Regarding your previous issue https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/line-breaks-are-being-ignored/ are you still pasting into the editor, or are you now working directly in the editor?
If you’re now working directly in the editor, these list items would work better inside of a List Block: https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/list-block/
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Ok, are you still pasting into the editor as before, or are you now working directly in the editor?
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I’m working directly in the editor. The only time I was using Notepad is when the music collection page went out of control when I made a typo in closing a tag, which caused to to keep autogenerating tags faster than I could delete them. I’m not even sure it was a typo. I think I may just not have typed fast enough for the autosave because my computer was being slow.
I really don’t like the way the developers seem to be trying desperately to stop end users from formatting their blog entries as they see fit.
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Justjennifer The document was created in the code editor. Because of some alteration on your end, clicking the edit button automatically puts it in the block editor, so that switching to the code editor means that the damage is already done. As previously stated, it used to open in block or code based on which one the user last used. If I last used block editor, I could hit write, change it to the code editor, and then open the existing document in the code editor. That’s no longer allowed, as it opens in block editor no matter what, instantly reformatting my document.
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Hey Scott, just a reminder that I’m a volunteer and also a user of this platform. (See the word “Member” under my forum avatar.)
It really sounds like you are accessing your older posts from the Posts Dashboard Default View, which will automatically open every post in the Block Editor.
Have you tried switching to the Classic View in your Posts dashboard and then editing your post via the Classic Editor?
Switching from Default to Classic View
Accessing the Classic Editor in WP AdminIf that doesn’t work, I really don’t have any other suggestions for you. Best wishes.
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