text won't wrap

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  erinmidwife · Member · Mar 31, 2011 at 1:40 am

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  Working on new posts and suddenly my text won’t wrap around my images, no matter how I align them. I am used to inserting images into my posts, and have not had a problem before.

  I wonder what I have done to cause this? Is this simply some editing issue?

  Thanks!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 31, 2011 at 2:52 am

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  What browser are you using for this? Are you typing straight into the text box or copy/pasting from elsewhere?

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  erinmidwife · Member · Mar 31, 2011 at 3:09 am

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  Using Firefox, no change there.

  And I am typing directly into the edit post box.
  I must have done something somewhere along the way to have made this
  happen. I just have no idea what?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 31, 2011 at 3:10 am

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  Try this. Open the post in the editor, select everything in the text area and then from the “format” pulldown on the left side of the lower row of editor icons, select “paragraph.”

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  erinmidwife · Member · Mar 31, 2011 at 3:16 am

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  Nope!

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  timethief · Member · Mar 31, 2011 at 3:50 am

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  Which version of FF are you running? We just had a FF update to 3.6.16 a few days ago.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 31, 2011 at 3:56 am

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  I loaded my test blog with MistyLook and had no trouble creating a phony post and uploading an image and using text wrap. Id you don’t have browser issue your blog ma need Staff intervention. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/

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  erinmidwife · Member · Mar 31, 2011 at 3:58 am

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  Thank you I will try troubleshooting my browser, and using a different browser and see if that gets me anywhere.

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  erinmidwife · Member · Mar 31, 2011 at 4:08 am

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  Ok, it doesn’t resolve with refreshing/clearing/changing browsers.

  Guess it’s staff intervention?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 31, 2011 at 4:10 am

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  I’m afraid so.

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 31, 2011 at 4:11 am

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  Before you try that, I’m just double-checking here to make sure you’re not typing in one long string of letters without any breaks. If the “word” is longer than the pixel allowance for the content box, it will do this. There’s no automatic word break system at WordPress.com.

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  erinmidwife · Member · Mar 31, 2011 at 4:20 am

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  No, normal words….It’s really odd because I work on drafts regularly and have not had this happen before. I tried resizing and playing with the images. My text *did* wrap at one point while working on this particular post but last time I worked on it, no wrapping, and I cannot get it to revert back.

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  erinmidwife · Member · Mar 31, 2011 at 4:21 am

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  Thanks for your time and assistance!

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 31, 2011 at 4:33 am

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  Try this: clear out everything and then click to the HTML editor, and paste it all in there. You’ll have to reformat images and links but it could have happened this way because of some weirdness with the tags. This way you can see which tags are closed and which aren’t.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 31, 2011 at 5:39 am

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  Also, if you have not done it yet, go to settings > writing and make sure you have the box checked so that wordpress automatically corrects any XHTML nesting issues.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 31, 2011 at 5:44 am

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  @erinmidwife
  As the images are already uploaded into your media library we can cut to the case here. If your HTML editor works you can code in the text wrap in easily enough.

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  erinmidwife · Member · Apr 1, 2011 at 12:58 am

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  I went back to editing my post last night and magically the text wrapped. Then, during the course of my editing it went back to displaying the images either
  1) centered, with a frame to the edge of the post box
  2) right or left aligned with no text wrapping

  When I logged in just now I *am* seeing the text wrap. Hopefully it will stick?

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  erinmidwife · Member · Apr 1, 2011 at 1:40 am

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  Ok, so I am editing my post and I move the first image in my post up a paragraph. I drag it up to the beginning of the paragraph. Voila, that image stays where I want it, with text wrapping.

  BUT — the second image in my post, then magically rearranged itself to be center aligned.

  ARGH.

  Any ideas?

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 1, 2011 at 2:50 am

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  Yes. Obviously there is an unclosed tag somewhere. What I suggest first, is stripping off the caption code of both images. Caption codes have been finicky for me today. See if that fixes the formatting, then Edit the images one at a time and add in a caption once they’re where you want them.

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  erinmidwife · Member · Apr 1, 2011 at 3:19 am

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  This may be it!

  When I tried to move the image, my captions also went wonky. They took on a new font and size.