Title: HTML editor causing grief
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# HTML editor causing grief

 *  [raindance](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raindance/)
 * (@raindance)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-causing-grief/)
 * Hi,
    I installed WordPress for a client to use, to manage her blog and she is
   saying that she’s having a terrible time with the HTML editor. When I upgraded
   to 2.8.4 we had so many problems that we reverted back to 2.8.3
 * Here are her issues…can anyone help us figure out how to make this less troublesome
   for her?
 * > It moves things around, it changes the code on you, it jumps around. I’m trying
   > to make it an easier process than dicking around with the damn editor for 15
   > minutes trying to get a link to underline!
   > The editor in the newer version of WP that we had was better.
   > Things move around on their own. Every time I add or delete text, it bounces
   > around and puts my cursor at the top, and I have to keep scrolling down to 
   > get to where I was. I cut and paste code, and it changes some of the characters.
   > A real pain.
 * thank you
    laura

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 *  Thread Starter [raindance](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raindance/)
 * (@raindance)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-causing-grief/#post-1224701)
 * Also:
 * > Blank lines are not consistent. You think you’ve got space between two sections,
   > and they’re run together, or too far apart. WYSIWYG is not true.
 *  Thread Starter [raindance](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raindance/)
 * (@raindance)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-causing-grief/#post-1225046)
 * Anyone?
 *  [anitaharris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anitaharris/)
 * (@anitaharris)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-causing-grief/#post-1225103)
 * I had the jumping cursor too, it was driving me crazy… every time i entered a
   space, or pasted or navigated out of the edit area the text was displayed from
   the top but the cursor remained in the correct location – i am in IE8. So i set
   my site to ‘compatibility view’ from IE8 tools menu option and that resolved 
   the problem for me…

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 * [editor problems](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/editor-problems/)

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 * Last reply from: [anitaharris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anitaharris/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-causing-grief/#post-1225103)
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