Problems using Source Button on Edit Pages

Mrs Swoop

I'm editing my home page because I have to close my store temporarily.

On the edit page I use the Source button to add some html attributes and submit the changes, that's all good. But if I re-click the source button and return to the standard formatting then all of my html changes disappear. And once I've submitted my html changes and then go back into the edit screen the default view is the standard formatting and my html attributes are automatically lost.

I'm sure it didn't do this the last time I made changes.

Am I missing something or just doing it wrong?

Lawrence

Could you confirm what kind of attributes you’re trying to apply?

Stellar

This happened to me too with the < center > tag. I can put it and it works, but if I edit the page I need to put it again because it is deleted.

Mrs Swoop

@Lawrence This is an example -
<p align="center"><font face="arial" size="3">Thank you for looking at my store.</p>

I didn't know about the <center> tag, but as @Stellar says that disappears as well.

Calibrick

@Lawrence I ran into this over the past few months too - ANY HTML or CSS editing you do in the source code view is no longer present if you save your changes and come back later. I've taught myself to save my HTML/CSS to Notepad and edit it there, repasting it over the source every update (I update mine monthly with CCFA donation updates). My source code looks like:

<p align="center">{{block type="header" content="Welcome to Calibrick!"}}</p>

<p align="center"><font face="arial" size="4">We donate 10% of <strong>all </strong>product sales to the

<a href="http://www.crohnscolitisfoundation.org/"><strong>Crohns and Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA)</strong></a>.</font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="arial" size="2">We post your trackable donations directly to the CCFA biweekly or monthly (depending on sales volume).

We credit each donation to the contributing buyer via Brickowl user names.

Track your order's donation by visiting <a href="https://fundraise.ccfa.org/calibrick">https://fundraise.ccfa.org/calibrick</a>.

<em>As of 10/24/20, your generous orders have raised <a href="https://fundraise.ccfa.org/calibrick"><strong>$3,333.00</strong></a> for the CCFA - <strong>thank you</strong> so, so much!</em></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="arial" size="2">Please view our <a href="https://calibrick.brickowl.com/page/terms">terms</a>, <a href="https://calibrick.brickowl.com/page/shipping">shipping rates</a>, <a href="https://calibrick.brickowl.com/page/colors">color notes</a>, and <a href="https://calibrick.brickowl.com/page/used">used product information</a>.

You can also learn a bit more about your proprietors <a href="https://calibrick.brickowl.com/page/about">here</a>.

Thank you so much for taking the time to browse our store!</font></p>

<p align="center">{{block type="recent" limit="15"}}</p>

<p align="center">{{block type="featured_random" limit="18"}}</p>

Calibrick

To be clear, this is a newer event despite having the same source code for 2 years now - started maybe 2-3 months ago?

Mrs Swoop

I think the last time I changed mine would've been in May and I don't think I had problems with it then.

When I changed it today I was sure that all my text used to be centered, and then I couldn't remember how to do that so I searched the forum and nicked it from where you posted your source before @Calibrick , thanks for that

Calibrick

No prob, Mrs Swoop! I'm stoked to seeing I'm not the only HTMLer on here! :-)

Lawrence

I believe this should now be fixed, however the relevant file may be cached so it may take some time to see the change in the editor.

Calibrick

Thank you as always for your amazingly fast work and attentive administration of this site, @Lawrence! I was going to drop you a line to mention the issue each time I do an update, and then get sidetracked by a shiny thing... ;-)

Mrs Swoop

Yes, works great now, thank you @Lawrence