balanceTags( string $text, bool $force = false ): string

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   Codex 9 years ago

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   Unclosed LI tags

   <?php
   $html = '<ul>
     <li>this
     <li>is
     <li>a
     <li>list
   </ul>';
   echo balanceTags($html, true);
   ?>

   Will output this HTML:

   <ul>
     <li>this
     </li><li>is
     </li><li>a
     </li><li>list
   </li></ul>
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   kitchin 2 years ago

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   The `use_balanceTags` option has default 0. The admin UI for it was removed several years ago, along with the UI for `use_smilies` (default 1), in Dashboard/Settings/Writing. So the core filters calling `balanceTags() `, such as ‘content_save_pre’, do nothing unless the user set an option in the distant past, or a plugin/theme changed the setting.

   The bug ticket back then said the TinyMCE editor handles the balancing in ‘Visual’ mode, and users in ‘Text’ mode should be allowed to do their own balancing, by default. Opinion changed to that as the ticket developed: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5161

   Most coders will want to use `force_balance_tags() ` instead of `balanceTags() `.