Title: Corrupts formating data
Last modified: September 2, 2016

---

# Corrupts formating data

 *  [tansael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tansael/)
 * (@tansael)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/corrupts-formating-data/)
 * When I try to edit page it works but it corrupts columns, lists, images, tabs,
   toggles etc. When I save it saves but all text was converted to paragraph text.
 * If you are using a theme, then forgot this plugin.

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

 *  Plugin Author [Carlo Roosen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carloroosen/)
 * (@carloroosen)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/corrupts-formating-data/#post-7811794)
 * Thank you tansael for this feedback, I am happy you mention it.
 * Indeed DirectEdit has a very strict validation engine. Basically it removes formatting
   that is not available in the toolbar. This makes sense when a designer creates
   the website, and others manage the content – which is the original situation 
   I created DirectEdit for. The validator is one of the ways in which DirectEdit
   protects a clean design and markup (see [http://directedit.co/](http://directedit.co/)).
 * However, I do understand it is not a desirable feature when you do in-content
   styling with columns and tables. In the next update I will disable the validator
   by default, and add an option in the backend to enable it if you wish. That solves
   your problem only partly, because the DirectEdit toolbar does not support tables
   and other advanced styling yet, but at least it will not break the styling that
   is already there.
 * The way DirectEdit might be of use for you is when you create your own template,
   with the different columns as independently editable elements. So you can create
   the design of your website in the template, and then add editable fields where
   you want to have editable content.
 * Another solution is, if your website only has one or two pages that contain tables,
   it might be a solution to disable frontend editing for these pages only, which
   can be done in the backend page editor.
 * Cheers!
 *  Plugin Author [Carlo Roosen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carloroosen/)
 * (@carloroosen)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/corrupts-formating-data/#post-7811816)
 * The validator is now optional and turned off by default. The content will no 
   longer break.

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

The topic ‘Corrupts formating data’ is closed to new replies.

 * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/directedit.svg)
 * [DirectEdit](https://wordpress.org/plugins/directedit/)
 * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/directedit/)
 * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/directedit/active/)
 * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/directedit/unresolved/)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/directedit/reviews/)

 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Carlo Roosen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carloroosen/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/corrupts-formating-data/#post-7811816)