WYSIWYG removes HTML button all non-<p> tags when view source

Question

Any code that I previously inserted using the html button on the rich text wysiwyg is removed when I click into edit the html within a post. Only <p> tags remain.

I have turned off the "Clean html" and the "Purify html" in the settings for the body field (rich text field), and have tried to enter iframes (videos). I can insert them initially, but if I go back to the edit as rich text, and then click to edit the html, any iframes, divs or tags other than <p> tags are stripped out of the code.

I cannot edit html in any posts that have videos else the videos are stripped out.

I have also downloaded a fresh install of Craft to make sure that it wasn't just my install. I encountered the same issue.

Can someone tell me what is going on?

Answer 1

This is a feature of "redactor" which is used with Craft to clean and format input.

To change the settings, you need to change the config in Craft/config/redactor/. See http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/rich-text-fields and http://imperavi.com/redactor/docs/settings/clean/#setting-allowedTags

This is not, however, working for me with iframes, which is a whole other issue.

Answer 2

From my personal experience, this is the type of thing that occurs when PHP/HTML set-up has a bug.

You could be having an issue using the Rich Text input for entering HTML for that reason.

Perhaps you could try making the edit in your website templates/css directly.

You can find tutorials to help you on http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/introduction