tips for newbie on writing articles?

[brynn]

Ok.  Update.  I think I've solved the problem. (not alone -- someone else helped)

When I first start to write the HTML article (which code is provided above) the wysiwyg editor was on, apparently by default.  I learned a week or 2 ago not to switch back and forth from code view to wysiwyg view, BECAUSE IT'S BROKEN.  So I had switched to code view, to paste the code, and then I saved.  I did not switch back to wysiwyg.  I don't know if anyone else has seen the page that I've kept visible for almost a week now. But I'll be putting the forum back into Maintenance Mode now, until I'm ready to open.  Anyway, the bottom line, apparently, is the wysiwyg breaks the code whether you use it or not, as long as it's available.

The trick to make the above pasted code to work properly is to disable the wysiwyg ENTIRELY.  It cannot be available, but simply not used.  It must be disabled entirely!

Now, I don't know enough about this business to understand why you would keep a clearly malfunctioning feature in what is otherwise a nice product.  But I would like to suggest that you either fix it, or remove it entirely.  What the heck?

Thank you very much, to all the people who've posted to try and help.  I sincerely appreciate it 

Edit
How to mark solved??  Oh, I see.  Thanks again 

[lurkalot]

Ok.  Update.  I think I've solved the problem. (not alone -- someone else helped)

erm, I suggested doing this in the second post in this thread. 

OK, here's something for you to try.  Go to Tinyportal admin > Click the settings icon for the articles, (The pen icon)  On the page that comes up, set "Use the WYSIWYG editor?" to No. and save. 

Now add a new html article and enter (or paste) your desired html code. See if that works. It should. 

[brynn]

Oh yes, I did see that!  And I thought that's what I had done!

I didn't see any difference between disabling, and just not using it.  To me, there shouldn't be any difference, whether it's there and I choose not to use it, or I disable it.  Either way, I'm not using it!

Why should having the wysiwyg available make any difference to my code, if I don't use the wysiwyg.  And if a "toggle" switch does anything more than toggle, something is wrong. Doesn't that make sense to anyone besides me? 

Clearly it makes a huge difference.  But I don't know how I could have known that.

And if having the wysiwyg available is going to break the code, even though it's not being used, I would submit that something is malfunctioning.  And if it's not going to be fixed, it ought to be left out of the product.

Anyway, I'm sorry, I don't mean to sound angry with you.  I truly appreciate your help.  I'm angry with the software not making sense to me.

Anyway, I'm good to go -- more problems to solve.  Thanks again