Why are my posts automatically modified?
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Why does WordPress strip out certain elements from my posts, such as <center> and style attributes??
What I type in:
<center>this text is centered</center>Here is a table with a background-image specified in the style block:
<table id="thetable" name="thetable" style="background-image: url(http://is1.okcupid.com/graphics/politics/chart_political.gif);" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="375" width="375"><tbody>
<tr height="31">
<td width="212"></td>
<td width="162"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="343">
<td width="212"></td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="162">
<img src="http://is1.okcupid.com/graphics/politics_you.gif" border="0">
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>What gets saved:
this text is centeredHere is a table with a background-image specified in the style block:
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="375"><tbody>
<tr>
<td width="212"></td>
<td width="162"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="212"></td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="162">
<img src="http://is1.okcupid.com/graphics/politics_you.gif" border="0">
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table> -
It’s being changed because inline styles are a security risk; people could sneak javascript into them and potentially hack other people’s blogs. It’s frustrating, but not quite as frustrating as being hacked.
(On the other hand, I imagine
<center>‘s getting stripped because it’s been deprecated since forever and nobody wants to whitelist it. See whether they let you have<div align="center">instead.) -
Hmm, never heard of javascript hacking via inline styles.
Is this a danger in comments or just in posting? And if I use wordpress on my own site, can I disable that “feature”?
And if they’re going to remove <center> for me, they should automatically replace that with <div style=”text-align:center”> – wait, that’s not allowed >:( – <div align=”center”>
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