TinyMCE is a great WYSIWYG editor, but sometimes there are cases where it removes HTML tags when you go into the “HTML Source” mode and switch back to the editor. This is very frustrating to end-users.

By default, TinyMCE will remove a lot of HTML tags including empty ones (such has having a DIV spacer), select options, certain styles, etc. To get around this, you will need to change the option “extended_valid_elements”, which is before the setup : function(ed) line. Note: This will allow your users to add in any kind of HTML tags they want. Replace the “extended_valid_elements” line with:

valid_elements : "*[*]",
extended_valid_elements : "*[*]",

This will fix the problem with TinyMCE removing tags from the HTML Source mode.