Title: Shortcode Breaks in visual editing
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Shortcode Breaks in visual editing

 *  [sremy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sremy/)
 * (@sremy)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-breaks-in-visual-editing/)
 * This plugin is great, but I have small issue where the shortcode breaks when 
   editing the page in visual view. In visual view, you get a grey galexy box rather
   than the shortcode text, which is fine except on the live page you get
 *     ```
       gallery
   
       WcMgcq
       ```
   
 * When you switch back to text view instead of a shortcode you get:
 *     ```
       <div data-mce-placeholder="1" data-aesop-sc="%5Baesop_gallery%20id%3D%221384%22%5D" class="mceItem aesop-component-short aesop-component">
       <div class="aesop-component-mask mceNonEditable unselectable"></div>
       <div class="aesop-component-bar">
       <div class="aesop-component-controls">
       <div title="Delete Component" class="aesop-button aesop-button-delete"></div>
       <div title="Clone Component" class="aesop-button aesop-button-clone"></div>
       <div title="Edit Component" class="aesop-button aesop-button-edit aesop-scope-gallery"></div>
       <div title="Cut Component / CTRL + ALT + ENTER to Paste" class="aesop-button aesop-button-clipboard"></div>
       </div>
       <span class="mceNonEditable aesop-component-title unselectable aesop-gallery-title">gallery</span></div>
       <div class="aesop-end">WcMgcq</div>
       </div>
       ```
   
 * If you leave the page in text view it works, however this isn’t a feasible options
   since the site owners will need to edit pages in the visual editor
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 * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-breaks-in-visual-editing/)
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