Help! Blog not loading on Explorer <!--[endif]-->

[wahmsuzanne]

Help! My blog is not loading on Explorer (looks fine on Firefox) and it says:

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where the post should be ... any know what I need to do? Thanks! *SmiLes* Suzanne

[sarahG]

Your problem is this line

<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><span class="mceItemObject" classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id=ieooui></span> <mce:style><! st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } --> <!--[endif]--><!-- --><!--[if gte mso 10]> <mce:style><! /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} --> <!--[endif]--></p>

that comes right after your BloggerBucks advert.

Looks to me like MS Word and is trying to use conditional comments and failing. I would just remove it.

[wahmsuzanne]

Hi Sarah ~ Thanks! I got a quick response on Twitter too ... and someone sent me to a forum post about this very issue ... I have recently started using Firefox for most everything and that was the first time I have ever created a post using FF and I think that was the "problem" I just recreated the post using Explorer the way I always did (using the WP icon thingy) and it seems to have worked. *sigh* Thanks again! *huGs* Suzanne

P.S. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and safe and Happy New Year!

[sarahG]

The problem isn't down to Firefox. If you copied from Word into your text editor on WordPress, and your WP text editor is the rich text editor, then the additional Word formatting is copied. This is why you can never really copy from Word to a WYSIWYG / Rich text editor on the web.

I have to explain this about once a month to my clients who break their sites...!

If you ever want to copy from Word, use the HTML editor in WordPress, not the Visual one

[wahmsuzanne]

Thanks for explaining ... if I copied that post from Word using the html ... wouldn't it just be one big running text? I don't know because I've never tried it! ;)

[Donace]

also on the wordpress post creation thing-a-majig (yes thats the technical term :p) there is button to 'copy from word' and that usually fixes it for me.

[sarahG]

also on the wordpress post creation thing-a-majig (yes thats the technical term :p) there is button to 'copy from word' and that usually fixes it for me.

Visual editor? ;) I didn't mention the 'paste from word' button as it doesn't work 100% of the time. The visual editor can be extended to be pretty large and all the buttons available for HTML are there, so it's just better to use the visual editor. Less chance of breaking things!

Thanks for explaining ... if I copied that post from Word using the html ... wouldn't it just be one big running text? I don't know because I've never tried it! ;)

The problem is Word includes it's own form of markup which uses xml. When you copy from Word and drop it into a WYSIWYG editor, the 'copy' also includes this markup which the editor picks up. If you copy it and paste it into Notepad, then select and copy that and put it into the editor, then it's fine as Notepad loses the formatting.

It's a constant problem with sites that offer TinyMCE or FCKEditor. I've not found an editor yet that can deal with pasting from Word 100% perfectly. Unfortunately despite telling them, clients still continue to copy their content directly from Word and then wonder why their sites break badly.