Visual Editor Is Not WYSIWYG

[RoyDalParticipant]

The Visual editor produces odd results. It does not make text on the final page look like what I see in the editor.

Here’s an example.

1) I paste these two quotes in the Text editor.

The happiest time of anyone’s life is just after the first divorce.
–John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 – 2006)

Ah yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet.
–Robin Williams (1951 – 2014)

2) Now, I go to the Visual editor to center them on the page, using the ‘Align center’ editing icon in the toolbar.
<p style=”text-align: center;”>The happiest time of anyone’s life is just after the first divorce.
–John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 – 2006)</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Ah yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet.
–Robin Williams (1951 – 2014)</p>
3) The result contains HTML commands that are not seen while in Visual editing mode.  What’s seen in the editor looks OK, until this is submitted…

 

 Ah yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet

–Robin Williams (1951 – 2014)

Ah yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet.
–Robin Williams (1951 – 2014)

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[KeymasterKeymaster]

Thanks for mentioning. I had no difficulty centering the text nor placing it in a blockquote. BUT! I had to a make sure I was pasting PLAIN TEXT. If you paste in copied and pasted HTML content it will preserve it and then you get unexpected results.

Can you try it once more please…. just when it’s convenient and you feel like it.
Much thanks for brining this sort of thing to our attention.

If you keep doing what you've always done... you're gonna keep getting what you always got.

[RoyDalParticipant]

OK, I am pasting this quote as PLAIN TEXT, and that is exactly what I did in the above.

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they ‘don’t understand’ one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
–Helen Rowland

Now, I am going to the VISUAL editor and posting it again, totally unchanged from the TEXT editor posting above.

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they ‘don’t understand’ one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

–Helen Rowland

 

Finally, I am posting it again in the Visual editor, and, in addition, using the “Align center” icon to center it.
<p style=”text-align: center;”>When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they ‘don’t understand’ one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>–Helen Rowland</p>
It looks OK, in the editor.  But not in real life

Society asks MGTOWs: Why are you not making more tax-slaves?

[RoyDalParticipant]

Another experiment. First I will post it in the TEXT editor, and then I will go to the VISUAL editor and use the icon to center it. Here goes:
<p style=”text-align: center;”>When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they ‘don’t understand’ one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
–Helen Rowland</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”></p>
<p style=”text-align: left;”>It looks OK in the editor.  In real life … we’ll find out when I hit SUBMIT.</p>

UPDATE: (Back in TEXT editor) all that clutter is HTML commands. The Visual editor is (I think) doing its thing correctly. It is the webpage that is not interpreting the commands but displaying them.

Society asks MGTOWs: Why are you not making more tax-slaves?

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