Title: Visual/HTML Tabs – Broken
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Visual/HTML Tabs – Broken

 *  Resolved [irishb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/irishb/)
 * (@irishb)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visualhtml-tabs-broken/)
 * I am running three different blogs, and two of them have this problem. The problem
   occurs when writing the body to a new page or post. The active tab will be set
   to “Visual” but I have no formatting options, and I can only write as if I’m 
   in the HTML tab. HTML tags work fine.
 * EDIT: Here’s a screenshot: [http://img152.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenea7.png](http://img152.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenea7.png)

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 *  Thread Starter [irishb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/irishb/)
 * (@irishb)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visualhtml-tabs-broken/#post-966912)
 * No one else is having this issue, or have heard about it?
 * Maybe there’s an updated version of the TinyMCE editor or something that I’m 
   missing?
 *  Thread Starter [irishb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/irishb/)
 * (@irishb)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visualhtml-tabs-broken/#post-966954)
 * Lonely bump. 🙁
 *  [La M](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lady_moocher/)
 * (@lady_moocher)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visualhtml-tabs-broken/#post-966956)
 * I don’t know whether it’s any help but I had a sort of similar problem for a 
   while.
 * It turned out to be because some of my page titles were really long. And so when
   I went into a page’s edit screen, those titles were being output as options in
   one of the drop-downs on the right. Even though they weren’t visible, their length
   was forcing the layout to shift around, resulting in my HTML button disappearing.
   So have a good look at all the fields in your edit page to make sure there’s 
   nothing like that creating stylesheet issues.
 * Other than that, I guess maybe you have a dodgy plugin that includes a a TinyMCE
   button?
 * The fact it’s happening on two of your blogs: what’s the common denominator?
 *  Thread Starter [irishb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/irishb/)
 * (@irishb)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visualhtml-tabs-broken/#post-966976)
 * Resolved. See my other post for how: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/248728?replies=2](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/248728?replies=2)

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 * Last reply from: [irishb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/irishb/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visualhtml-tabs-broken/#post-966976)
 * Status: resolved

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