Hi support forum readers!
My first Drupal installation. Am happy with the look and functionality of the site but I've spent my whole Sunday trying to get the WYSIWYG editors to work so that I could have the site's users upload pictures, without success (it's a non-profit, and I'm a volunteer).
I have installed IMCE, Wysiwyg and IMCE Wysiwyg API bridge, plus Tiny MCE, and later FCKEditor when the former didn't work.
The editors show up fine on the interface, and appear to work, until the point when the content is previewed or saved, at which point I end up with only the "stripped" code (i.e. 
becomes [img])
At first I thought it was just a problem uploading images, so spent a lot of time learning about filters to ensure that the tag was allowed. I messed about with the various "input formats" , without success.
Then I worked out that it wasn't actually an image problem, when I managed to create an "image" content (previously I'd been trying to insert an image in a book page or blog post). Actually, TinyMCE was the problem - it wasn't only the images that wouldn't work, but any of the WYSIWYG formatting commands.
So I disabled that, and tried FCKEditor, but if I use the "disable rich text" command in FCKEditor, I can actually get and effects with the HTML, but using the editor, it just ends up looking like this: [b]test text it bold[/b].
So, same problem as with TinyMCE. The WYSIWYG interface is just not outputting into the content (that's probably the wrong way to say it, but I hope you know what I mean!)
There's clearly something very obvious I'm doing wrong, but I can't figure out what it is. I thought of disinstalling everything and starting again, but now I can't work out how to disinstall the WYSIWYG module.
Summary: the various WYSIWYG editors I've tried don't actually do anything... what could be the issue??
Hope I've provided enough information, and that someone will be kind enough to help.
Best wishes,
Daniel
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Issue resolved: here's how
No thanks for all the comments (there were none), but here's how I resolved the problem:
"unenabled" various modules one by one to see which was causing the problem
(made no difference)
re-installed wysiwyg
switched on the editor: FCKeditor 2.6.6
went to edit/buttons and plugins
put only two buttons back on: did a test post, they worked!!!!! First time ever my wysiwyg editor had functioned, no matter what filter I used.
Continued to add buttons line by line, test post after each three lines of buttons
Eventually I worked out that it was the BBCode button that was causing the editor to not work:
with this button enabled, but not used, all my code was trashed no matter what I did to the filters
In the last 24 hours of searching the internet, I had seen this mentioned by someone, in a vague way which I had failed to understand.
Hope this post helps anyone else with the same issue.
Useful post, even if you
Useful post, even if you didn't get any help. I've used FCK Editor for a few months without many problems. Just trying out TinyMCE which doesn't work, but your post has given me some new ideas.