Forum:Rich Text Editor Problems

When the rich text editor was updated there was a message for reporting errors with it, but now it doesn't show and I'm having a problem editing certain pages specially those with CSS on it (this is one of them). When I press the edit button the page shows, but when I choose to edit the source it turns to loads of gibberish!

I turned off rich text editing which is working for me so far. But I do realize this has to be fixed eventually. Also when editing sections on the rich text editor sometimes the editor get's confused and when I save the page the tables go out of place.

I'm not sure at this point who is the best to contact about this, and I definitely don't want to send the message to the wrong person/staff. I don't know if contacting Wikia is the best at this point?

Please let me know who to contact! Thanks

Liliana --Molokaicreeper 03:23, February 25, 2010 (UTC)


 * Probably Special:Contact is the best way to go, as usual. They direct messages sent via that to the most appropriate staff member/team. I think Wikia already knows about the gibberish in source mode problem; but then again, my memory is none too reliable. Wjxhuang,  the 888th Avatar  {Talk} 03:36, February 25, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I will see if I can write all the bugs I find, but I will need some time to gather everything. I know there were a couple of other things, small bugs but still important. --Molokaicreeper 03:46, February 25, 2010 (UTC)


 * We're looking into it. If you have examples of other pages seeing the same issue (exploding when you switch to source mode), please let me know. 18:07, February 26, 2010 (UTC)

I normally edit in wikitext mode. But today I wanted to paste in a revised table of annotated links to replace a similar table on my user page. I enabled rich text editing in my preferences and pasted in the table of links.

The rich text editor messed up a bunch of video captions that I wasn't editing. Here is the diff.

I will have to salvage the good wikitext for the table of links, and then go back to default wikitext editing. I can then go back to the older revision and paste in the new table of links. Via the salvaged wikitext.

I wish it were possible to toggle between wikitext and rich text, but be able to do it from default wikitext. --Timeshifter 09:14, March 7, 2010 (UTC)

I recently turned off the RTF, but now I need to use it again and the option on my preferences is not present. I even tried using the URL shortcut, but it doesn't activate it. A little help here? ~ Pgans  22:23, March 13, 2010 (UTC)


 * Are you sure you can't see the option in Special:Preferences? Try the "Editing" tab. The first check box for that section should be "Enable Rich Text Editing". It could also be the specific wiki you're on. Which wiki? The 888th Avatar   (talk)  02:22, March 14, 2010 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, I found it. But I swear it wasn't there before... I just have general bad luck, regardless of what the issue is. Thanks anyway. But now I'm not sure which I like better... It's probably the RTE in the long run, you can use the old version without switching. ~  Pgans  02:54, March 14, 2010 (UTC)