[wp-testers] when switching to visual editor from HTML editor, all layout is discarded

[Alexander van Loon]

I've just tried Firefox 2.0.0.12 on Linux again with the Error Console,
but the Error Console reports nothing and the bug still shows up. The
fact that you can't reproduce it on your WP 2.5 weblog either leads me
to think that the bug HAS to be caused by my particular WP 2.5
installation.

I'll send the username and password for my weblog to you and DD32, could
you both please try to reproduce the bug on my WP 2.5 installation? I'd
really appreciate it, this bug is driving me mad and I'm considering to
downgrade to WP 2.3 which doesn't have the problem.

On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 11:39 -0800, Andrew Ozz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Looking at your backup html page - it is not actually html, rather it is 
> formatted the same way WordPress stores content in the db: with <p> tags 
> replaced by 2 line breaks "\n\n".
> 
> It has to be run through wpautop before displaying or before it can be 
> edited with the visual editor. This is done every time you switch from 
> HTML mode to Visual mode in the editor by a Javascript version of wpautop.
> 
> However if there is a js error somewhere on the page prior to running 
> the content through the js wpautop, Javascript will stop execution and 
> the content will be inserted in TinyMCE (Visual mode) without the <p> 
> tags, so all the paragraphs will disappear.
> 
> Can you try using Firefox with the error console open and set to show 
> errors only while writing, pasting, switching between Visual and HTML 
> modes, so you can notice any js errors as they happen.
> 
> Also, try using one of the stable versions of the supported browsers: 
> Firefox, Safari, Opera or IE when using the visual editor. Other 
> browsers using Gecko would probably work, but each one has small quirks 
> here and there that may show up at any time.
> 
> I've tried pasting the content of your backup page in FF2, FF3_b4, 
> Safari 3.1 and Opera 9.2 (Windows) and wasn't able to reproduce this error.