w8tts

Okay. I’m thinking that this is a problem with the data that I’m trying to upload. I just did two more tables, one small and one much larger. Now all I have to do is find the problem.

I just tried a tab character and that didn’t work.

Like I said, what haven’t I tried.

One of the first things I tried was the html-editor-syntax-highlighter. I like the highlighting that it does, but 1). it doesn’t doesn’t stop the reformatting the WP does to the text, and 2). some edit options don’t work. Try a simple Ctrl-F on something the occur multiple times in the text. It’ll tell you how many are there, but no highlight and it won’t progressively go to them.

I don’t use visual very often, I find I can do more of what I want to do in text.

I’ve looked at TinyMCE Advanced, and it appears to only work in the visual editor. And, that’s no help to me.

It would even be nice if WordPress would do some formatting, like Joomla does, of the html in the text edit.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by w8tts.

What haven’t I tried. But, basically I’ve taken the text version of the Word Press page, copied it, pasted it into a good text editor (NoteTab Pro), and reformatted the page from what Word Press does to it:

<tr align=”left”>
<td></td>
<td>Cliff</td>
<td>MT011L</td>
. . .

Into what’s useful to me, which is a multi-step process:

<tr align=”left”> <td></td> <td>Cliff</td> <td>MT011L</td> . . .

I do the necessary editing to the page, copy it back to WordPress, and after verifying my changes, save it. And, the next time I go to edit the page, WordPress has changed the HTML back into what it thinks is correct, and isn’t for my process.

The WordPress pages were built, by the person who built our WordPress site, from straight HTML pages. How this conversion was done, I’m not sure.

I figure that WordPress saves the HTML in a big un-formatted mass, and does some reformatting (basically placing a carriage return after every “>”) when you bring up a page in WordPress’s “text” editor format.

Nope. Looks worse.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by w8tts.
• This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by w8tts.
• This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by w8tts.

Here’s a link. https://usislands.org/iowa/

No clue. It was done by the person building out WP site.

I have two similar tables in two different pages, and I want to copy a row from one of those tables to another.

I agree. I’d rather stay in the WP text editor, rather than cutting, pasting in a text editor, cutting it in the text editor, and pasting it back into WP.

Has this ever been completed?