Switching between ‘Visual’ and ‘Code’ messes up formatting

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  atinyblip · Member · Apr 1, 2008 at 4:57 pm

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  I’ve only noticed this today using WordPress’s visual editor. Whenever I toggled between ‘Visual’ and ‘Code’ views, the formatting of my text becomes one whole paragraphs. Any para breaks I’d set in Visual view I’d lose when I switch to code. Likewise, any <p> tags I specify in Code view is lost when I switch to Visual.

  Is it just me or is this happening to other fellow WP’ers?

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  deltafoxtrot · Member · Apr 1, 2008 at 5:09 pm

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  You’re not alone. This behaviour is meant to help people who don’t understand the code. But for Markup-wizards it’s, of course, a pain.

  If proper code is important to you, you can deactivate the visual editor and turn off WordPress’ XHTML-“fixing”.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Apr 1, 2008 at 5:52 pm

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  Deactivate visual editor at users > my profile

  Turn off automatic nested xhtml code fixing at options > writing

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  atinyblip · Member · Apr 3, 2008 at 6:03 am

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  Thanks for that, guys. :)