Problem with visual editor truncating HTML tags (and Google maps)

  • gauntletxg

    (@gauntletxg)


    18 years, 1 month ago

    Hello all, I’m having a very annoying problem with WordPress.

    I have a page with a pretty detailed table, its 30 rows and 7 columns. I was able to get everything set up and running fine, but I’m running into some formatting problems when I make changes to the table.

    There are a few rows that have been merged and consist only of headings. When I use <center></center> tags around the text and save the page in HTML view, it looks great. However, when I switch to visual view the tags get removed and the text reverts to being aligned to the left. This wouldn’t be a problem if the page was static, but I need to update the data every day, so I either have to make changes in HTML view (quite laborious) or make changes in visual view and then add the <center> tags in HTML view before saving. Is there a workaround for this/is it a known bug? Or should I just use CSS to center the text?

    I’m also having a similar problem embedding Google maps into the page. When I paste this link in using HTML view, it works fine:

    <iframe width="425" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=2252+Bellfield,+Cleveland,+OH+44106&amp;sll=41.489678,-81.560719&amp;sspn=0.009017,0.023432&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=41.507613,-81.590309&amp;spn=0.036059,0.093727&amp;z=14&amp;iwloc=addr&amp;output=embed&amp;s=AARTsJpGAtyvui5FCIHDMzDGFAAWzPZc5g"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=2252+Bellfield,+Cleveland,+OH+44106&amp;sll=41.489678,-81.560719&amp;sspn=0.009017,0.023432&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=41.507613,-81.590309&amp;spn=0.036059,0.093727&amp;z=14&amp;iwloc=addr&amp;source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">View Larger Map</a>

    But when I switch to visual view, the link is automatically truncated to:

    <a style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=2252+Bellfield,+Cleveland,+OH+44106&amp;sll=41.489678,-81.560719&amp;sspn=0.009017,0.023432&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=41.507613,-81.590309&amp;spn=0.036059,0.093727&amp;z=14&amp;iwloc=addr&amp;source=embed">View Larger Map</a>

    So again I have to paste the link in HTML view and save it there, otherwise it won’t work. Is there a way around this?

    Thanks so much.

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  • Thread Starter gauntletxg

    (@gauntletxg)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    I was able to work around the Google Maps problems with the Inline Google Maps plugin. I had troubles with it before because of some CSS issues, but it works now. Still can’t figure out the centering issue though.

    thisisjazz

    (@thisisjazz)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    I’m currently experiencing exactly the same problem with google maps.

    Is it possible to force the editor to accept the <iframe> tag which it is stripping out? Also I couldn’t get the Inline Google Maps plugin to work for me.

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