Caray, Caray!

I've gone through and fixed the first few posts (stripped all the garbage code). You can check and see if your post has garbage code in it by looking under the HTML tab. If you have questions leave them here in the comments! Thanks! Jane
 

Jane, in the Telemundo area we post our recaps in the comments area, labeling them #1, #2, #3, etc. For years I have been writing recaps and/or lengthy comments in Word. I then copy the text in the Word doc and paste it into one or more comments.

Are you saying this has caused problems? Or is the problem with people on Univision, when they post directly to the blog?
 

Would copy-pasting from the blog (after it originally was pasted from Word) and pasting into Notepad help? This is to correct any blogs that have already been published. Currently pasting from Notepad after copy-pasting from the garbage-coded blog. Not sure if I'm defeating the purpose, or if this might work as a solution?
 

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And if you are watching, commenting on Android or, I guess, on that terrible Apple thing, there are different versions of something like NotePad or NoteBook. I eat up smartphones; and it seems as if every version they put out has a different word processing type program:. Hancom, Polaris, etc..,etc..

 

Jane, can you tell if i'm doing it correctly?
 

Just from doing my own blog and things for my workplace, when you copy/paste directly from a word document, it inserts those < span > tags into the html and they are the devil. Best to use notepad to compose - if you want to spellcheck, you can copy/paste into Word, but then after you fix the spelling, copy/paste back into notepad and then into the html for blogger.
 

Novelera, if you look under the HTML tab (rather than the compose tab) in your posts you'll see a giant mass of code. The way to avoid this is NOT to cut and paste from a word document. Save as a text file, OR cut-and-paste and then dump it into wordpad or notepad or some other text editor that removes the coding. Or simply type right into the HTML box. Or type into a text editor in the first place.
 

Thank you, Jane. The post used to illustrate the problem is mine. Apologies for the inconvenience caused but I didn't copy it from Words. The first paragraph I typed directly into the HTML tab and the bullet points were copied from the comment section into the HTML tab. Here's where I experience a problem: The text looks fine in the HTML tab. It is properly spaced and everything. However, if I view it in the Compose tab, it is nothing but a giant slab of compact text, with no space between paragraphs or anything. When I introduce spaces, make the text bigger, some terms in bold and change the typeface, the HTML tab in Blogger shows what you posted above, it introduces code. I usually compose in Pages, the Mac word processing program, then paste into Text Edit, then paste here on Blogger into the HTML tab and the text looks fine. But as aforementioned, the bothersome code gets introduced once I start formatting what I have in HTML in the Compose Tab. However, from now on, I won't touch the text I paste into the HTML tab, I'll publish it as is, y que sea lo que Dios quiera. If it gets published as one compact block of text, then I'll start posting my recaps in the comment section or email it to someone to publish it for me.

Apologies once again but I'm not well-versed in these things and I've struggled a great deal with publishing on Blogger over the past year. Cheers, Jane and everyone. Good day to all.
 

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Hello again! Quick update: I've just published a post (AQNMD #36, tag "dejas") by copy-pasting in plain text from Text Edit into the HTML tab and, sure enough, it was published as a big compact block of text. I went back and spaced the paragraphs out in the Compose tab, then checked the HTML tab and found that some code was introduced. Not sure if it's malignant code or not, but if you have some time, Jane, could you please give it a wee look and let me know if it's OK? Thanks
 

Nandicta, your #36 is perfect. As for having to add returns: check on the right under "options" - under "line breaks" see if the radio button for "Press ENTER for line breaks" is checked. That's the one you want and the returns should then work correctly. Let me know if not.
 

Victoria, after a certain point all comments go to the post author and the blog mom (in this case, both the same person) for moderation. The post author should be on the ball approving late comments. But I was out of town for a week. Sorry.
 

Jane, sorry because you would have deleted it. Being out if town is nothing to be sorry about. Especially in this beautiful weather.
 

Jane, thanks for getting back to me on this. Good day! :)
 

Everybody, I've added to the body of this post the coding for bullet points. Use this code in the HTML tab.
 

CathyX, I looked at El Color #33. You all can see for yourself if there is cruft in your post by editing it and going to the HTML tab. In this case there are a lot of div classes and span classes but it doesn't seem as if they are going to cause trouble. Try the method above (either compose directly in the HTML tab or compose in a text editor or save as a text file) to eliminate this. Or you can do what I do when a certain post has so much coding it's breaking the blog: Go to the "compose" tab (where it looks normal), copy the whole thing, and then dump it into the "HTML" tab. That will take the weird codes out. You'll have to re-add the "more" code. Thanks all!