Comments on: fixing wordpress — editor removing div tags

By: coolnalu

coolnalu — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:15:07 +0000

uh…html tags were removed…

By: coolnalu

coolnalu — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:13:17 +0000

I am using 2.6.2. And what I am trying to do is stop it from removing my precious p tags. under wp-admin/js/editor.js,

I commented off two lines and replaced it with a new one

//content = content.replace(new RegExp(’\\s*’, ‘mgi’), ”);

//content = content.replace(new RegExp(’\\s*\\s*’, ‘mgi’), ‘\n\n’);

content = content.replace(new RegExp(’\\s*\\s*\\s*’, ‘mgi’), ‘\n’);

it now only removes tags with empty content. i hope. seems working for me. hope it helps someone.

By: Dan Moore! » Solution for Wordpress turning div tags to p tags

Dan Moore! » Solution for Wordpress turning div tags to p tags — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:38:59 +0000

[...] your lucky day, if you’re using WP 2.3. Edit the tiny_mce_config.php as outlined at this article and [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:33:03 +0000

Mario’s solution (#6) worked for me. I’m on WP 2.3.3.

Thanks!

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:22:41 +0000

Does anyone have a solution for WP 2.5 and up? This worked great for version before that but I can’t seem to find that code anywhere in the tiny_mce_config.php file. Did div code move?

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:46:36 +0000

Just delete the p/-div[*] from the list then the will not be replaced by the tag. Worked here!

By: j.daniel rivera

j.daniel rivera — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:52:47 +0000

ok ppl, i found the solution. Where it mentions “p/-div[*]“, replace it with this “div/-div”. It work out for me.

By: Evan

Evan — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:28:49 +0000

Thanks everyone, this topic is obscure but highly important!

@Mario - I tried your fix since it makes sense however it didn’t work for me either; good try though mate

@Simon - A brilliant (if not draconian) solution! I’ve done it an it works well!

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:31:25 +0000

Mario,

That didn’t work for me but if you just delete the tinymce folder from wordpress nothing breaks and you just get given the code option.

It appears that it isn’t wordpress that changes the tags it is the WYSIWYG text editor, that’s why posts can be fine first save and then screwed when you go back to edit and it opens via tinymce first.

Oh and don;t forget to clear your cache once it’s changed

By: Mario

Mario — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:26:11 +0000

Hey, I found a solution. Alter the tiny_mce_config.php file as follows.

change

‘p/-div[*]

‘p[*],-div[*]

‘-’ means remove empty elements
‘p/div’ means replace div by p
‘[*]‘ means any attribute allowed

Credit: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/139510#post-658765