{"id":45139,"date":"2024-01-31T16:30:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/?p=45139"},"modified":"2024-02-02T15:07:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T13:07:30","slug":"visual-and-text-tabs-are-missing-from-the-text-editor-widget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/visual-and-text-tabs-are-missing-from-the-text-editor-widget\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual and Text tabs are missing from the Text Editor widget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Issue<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Text Editor widget lets you create and edit content for your website. Sometimes, you might notice that the <strong>Visual<\/strong> and <strong>Text <\/strong>tabs are not visible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" src=\"https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Comparison-1-1024x767.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45158\" style=\"width:600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Comparison-1-1024x767.png 1024w, https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Comparison-1-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Comparison-1-768x575.png 768w, https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Comparison-1.png 1395w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Solution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong> To enable the tabs, do the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Go to <strong>WP Admin &gt; Users &gt; Your Profile<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clear the option <strong>Disable the visual editor when writing<\/strong>. This will brings back the tabs that were missing in the Text Editor widget.<br><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"251\" class=\"wp-image-45140\" style=\"width: 680px;\" src=\"https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-64.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-64.png 1600w, https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-64-300x111.png 300w, https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-64-1024x378.png 1024w, https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-64-768x283.png 768w, https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-64-1536x566.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>[callout type=&#8221;note&#8221;]The&nbsp;<em>Typography<\/em>&nbsp;styling, as well as other styling options, of the text within the Text Editor only affects normal paragraph text. If you have changed any of the text within the text editor to a heading (H1, H2, H3, etc.) or any other type of tag besides Paragraph, then the&nbsp;<em>Style<\/em>&nbsp;options will not affect that text. Text using HTML tags other than &lt;p&gt; in the Text Editor widget will inherit the typography styling from either your theme or whatever you have set within Elementor\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/elementor.com\/help\/theme-style-global-settings\/\">global Theme Style settings<\/a>.[\/callout]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issue The Text Editor widget lets you create and edit content for your website. Sometimes, you might notice that the Visual and Text tabs are not visible. Solution To enable the tabs, do the following: [callout type=&#8221;note&#8221;]The&nbsp;Typography&nbsp;styling, as well as other styling options, of the text within the Text Editor only affects normal paragraph text. 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