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Why does my style-tag disappear, in both my free site and my localhost site? Where do I find the Wordpress guidelines that specify what can-not be done.

Example, where do I find: "Wordpress does not support the internal-style sheets and "style tag" in posts/pages, and it will be deleted from your post/page on the free hosted sites."?

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  • Inline style tags/sheets aren't generally forbidden, if you're getting at that. Though it isn't recommended to use them extensively - or at all. Summarized, if you want concrete help, then you have to show and actually explain what you are doing.
    – Nicolai Grossherr
    Mar 28, 2015 at 14:37
  • I create a new post, paste the following into the text tab, then switch to visual, then back to text. The HTML is gone just leaving "hello". <style type="text/css" media="all"> p { font: 1em Times serif; color: #c00; } h1 { font: 2em Times serif; color: #f00; } </style> hello
    – apergiel
    Mar 28, 2015 at 17:39
  • Same thing with pages. HTML dissappears when switching from text to visual to text.
    – apergiel
    Mar 28, 2015 at 17:43
  • You have to extend $allowedposttags, e.g. via ìnit hook. And via tiny_mce_before_init hook you have to make sure it is part of the inputed arrays extended_valid_elements element. Not going to show you how, because I think it is bad - very.
    – Nicolai Grossherr
    Mar 28, 2015 at 19:17

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WordPress does remove style tags. While it allows HTML to some degree in post content, it's not really meant for full range of it. It's a content, not markup data.

You could use tiny_mce_before_init filter to adjust extended_valid_elements for TinyMCE instance.

See this answer on SO for some examples.

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  • Ok. I'm not going to use internal style sheets. Should not the WP HTML stripper that is used in the Visual/Text Editor leave a comment behind after stripping out my well-thought-out CSS code, something like: <!-- Your CSS code as follows has been stripped out, because WP doenst like it. Your unliked code follows in this comment....Have the nicest of days.-->
    – apergiel
    Mar 28, 2015 at 22:21
  • Thank you Rarst, As a newbie, I have learned that its not Wordpress per se that is at issue. It is the TinyMCE wysiwyg online editor that Wordpress uses.
    – apergiel
    Mar 29, 2015 at 15:47

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