Title: Content Editor Problems
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Content Editor Problems

 *  Resolved [Tonio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anthonybruno/)
 * (@anthonybruno)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-editor-problems/)
 * So the most annoying thing I find about wordpress has to be the content editor.
   Where you basically enter any page content or post content. It seems like managing
   content in here for some reason is very difficult. Pretty much the one thing 
   that I seem to be hooked on is trying to create two separate paragraphs for the
   purpose of maintaining some space between them without using a bunch of br tags.
   So this is how I format them:
 *     ```
       <p>content</p>
         <p>more content</p>
       ```
   
 * Looking in my “Visual” mode it retains all of the changes, that is, until I save.
   After I save this out wordpress formats the two paragraphs like this:
    `<p>contentmore
   content</p>`
 * For some reason It likes to combine tags. I have even tried manually inserting
   these paragraphs in code view and have even downloaded the tinyMCE WYSIWYG powerhouse
   editor and nothing seems to help.
 * So I guess my question is how do I go about getting some more control in this
   editor? How come wordpress combines these tags like this? Is there some type 
   of plugin that is going to give me more control in solving situations like this?
 * Thanks
    Anthony

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 *  Thread Starter [Tonio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anthonybruno/)
 * (@anthonybruno)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-editor-problems/#post-719214)
 * Pretty much trying to insert any content this happens as well. The auto-collapsing
   of tags.
 *  Thread Starter [Tonio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anthonybruno/)
 * (@anthonybruno)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-editor-problems/#post-719258)
 * When it comes to placing any type of code into the code editor, wordpress **should**
   retain the changes. It should not matter what I put in there, It should not strip
   out anything automatically.
 * Maybe this is some feature that I am not picking up on. All I know is formatting
   any type of information is impossible. I feel like a moron not being able to 
   format text correctly but being able to customize the rest of the wordpress build.
   Maybe I am doing something wrong, I hope so.
 * Im really in need for some help on this situation. Please, anyone, save me from
   myself.
 * edit: doing some more research, it seems when you manually insert them into code
   view they will display them in the view. although after you save, they will not
   display in code mode. the kicker about the whole situation is that the changes
   will actually retain to the content. so what i am saying is that you will still
   have your p tags on your content but you will not be able to see them when editing.
 *  [rudolf45](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rudolf45/)
 * (@rudolf45)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-editor-problems/#post-719266)
 * Based on what has been posted related to this issue it seems to be the Visual
   editor. In many posts they say it should be turned off permanently if you want
   to use HTML code in your posts.
    Did you try that?
 *  Thread Starter [Tonio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anthonybruno/)
 * (@anthonybruno)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-editor-problems/#post-719365)
 * Rudolf,
 * Yes I have tried manually inserting tags using both sides of the editor. It seems
   that the problem is found when using Safari 3.1. I dont have similar issues using
   Firefox 3.0b4
 * Thanks,
    Anthony

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 * Last reply from: [Tonio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anthonybruno/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-editor-problems/#post-719365)
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