Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-25151790-20150517004824/@comment-452-20150517030549

Ah, okay, it's even worse than I thought it was. I saw that in the example, but I thought you were recreating it entirely ...as an example. I thought they would have fixed that by now.

is there any way to fix it? For users? No. Only Wikia can fix it. I reported it a long time ago, but I have no idea if they even see it as a problem.

In my opinion, any WYSIWYG editor should respect any existing formatting instead of rewriting things. From a programming point of view, this is not difficult, and should have been an obvious goal.

For instance, if the existing template is and you only want to change "23" to "24", the template editor knows that the only change is "23" to "24", so all it needs to do is updated the original source to replace characters 54 and 55 ("23") with "24" and leave everything else alone.

But instead, when you leave the template editor, it rewrites the entire template and loses all of the previous formatting.

The same disregard for the previous formatting also causes this to happen:
 * (before)
 * (after)