Switching between Visual Editor and HTML Editor
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I usually write my pages (self-hosted site via wp.org) in HTML mode, and I indent the code in an external text editor in a cascading format to help me read the code.
However, when I use the desktop application/Wordpress.com editor to edit text, when I switch to the Visual Editor and then switch back to the HTML editor, the indentations have been removed for the most part. Anything that was indented more than 1 ‘level’ is collapsed to no indentation.
Does anyone know why that happens?
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Hi there,
The WordPress.com editor is not designed to preserve whitespace in the HTML view of the editor like that, as it’s not a code editor, but a content editor.
The only case where whitespace will be preserved is if you’re actually typing source code wrapped in the [code] or [sourcecode] shortcodes, meaning you want the actual code to appear in the published post, and looking at the Jetpack-connected site in your account, that's not the case here.
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