[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #40951: New Text Widget - Switching Between Visual/Text Editor Strips Out Code

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#40951: New Text Widget - Switching Between Visual/Text Editor Strips Out Code
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 Reporter:  dwrippe       |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Widgets       |     Version:  4.8
 Severity:  minor         |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  close         |     Focuses:
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Comment (by carasmo):

 Many users don't add a plugin for every little thing you want to add in a
 widget, so the <4.8 text widget was used to put in html for MailChimp
 forms or other little things and don't check the checkbox and go! Now with
 the new text widget, unless that html is completely minified, when you re-
 visit the text widget to edit that instance, the result is that the html
 has now added p tags around form elements and other stuff where it's not
 only a validation error in some cases, the layout is entirely messed up.
 This royally sucks. Anyway, for my purposes I forked the old text widget
 and named it Classic Text Widget.
 https://gist.github.com/carasmo/d29722a1ef7e1ebe29125661ed3690a2

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