How can I switch off the new Editor ? It's catastrophic in my case
Asked by Pierre-Yves Mathys:

I have a lot of card which include css and html solutions.

And as a good habit, any code includes a comment to explain the solution.

With the new editor all my css comment are changed by interpreting the MarkDown

Is it possible to switch off both : new editor and MarkDown ?

PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! over 150 cards.......

Exemple of text I keep in a card (before was working well - just have to open the card, copy, paste // now I loose all my /\* and \*/ marks.... ) :

/\* --------------------------------- \*/  
/\* \*/  
/\* CSS GENERAL COMMUNS \*/  
/\* =================== \*/  
/\* \*/  
/\* --------------------------------- \*/

/\* CTA MENU BOUTON \*/  
/\* -- version desktop -- \*/  
[@media](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2657427) only screen and ( min-width: 981px ) {  
.cta_menu a {  
color: #191919 !important;  
font-size:13px!important;  
background-color: #f2e3ad !important;  
padding: 8px 20px !important; /\* espace up down - droite gauche \| dessusTxt apr?sTxt dessousTxt avantTxt \*/  
margin-top: -13px;/\* distance top et haut du bouton \*/  
margin-bottom: 10px; /\* distance bas et bas du bouton \*/  
border-radius: 0px;  
box-shadow: 0px 10px 30px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);  
}  
.et-fixed-header #top-menu .cta_menu a {  
color: #191919 !important;  
}  
}

/\* -- version mobile -- \*/  
[@media](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2657427) only screen and ( max-width: 980px ) {  
.cta_menu a {  
color: #191919 !important;  
font-size:13px!important;  
background-color: #f2e3ad !important;  
text-align:center;  
padding: 12px 0px 12px 0px !important; /\* espace ds bouton : dessusTxt apr?sTxt dessousTxt avantTxt \*/  
margin-top: 10px;/\* distance top et haut du bouton \*/  
margin-bottom: 10px; /\* distance bas et bas du bouton \*/  
border-radius: 0px;  
box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);  
}  
.et-fixed-header #top-menu .cta_menu a {  
color: #fff !important;  
}  
}  
/\* OPTIONS DU MENU DESKTOP !!! mettre le bon nom du menu cibl? \*/  
/\* on hover \*/  
#top-menu li a:hover,  
.top-menu a:hover,  
#liennova a:hover,  
#mleg a:hover{  
text-decoration: underline 3px !important;  
text-shadow:none!important;  
color:#fff4de!important;  
}  
/\* active option \*/  
#top-menu li.current-menu-item \> a {  
text-decoration: none !important;  
text-shadow:none!important;  
}

/\* DESIGN LIGNE DE FOND \*/  
#txtcopyright,  
#liennova,  
#liennova a,  
#mleg a{  
/\* font-family: 'yeon sung';\*/  
font-size:9.5px;  
font-weight:500; /\* ou lighter ou 300 \*/  
line-height: 2.9;  
/\* text-transform: uppercase; \*/  
letter-spacing: 0.15em;  
/\* color:#ffffff!important; \*/  
background-color: transparent!important;  
color: inherit!important;  
border: 0px!important;  
}  
#liennova,  
#liennova a{  
color:#fff4de!important;  
}


Answers:
author: Alisson Sartor
body: Hello, Pierre!  

Welcome to the community!  

**If you want to revert back to the editor that you're used to** , for a very limited time period, you can turn this off by clicking on the "Share feedback" link just below the editor and then clicking ***"Turn off".*** *However, please be aware that in the coming months, we are permanently going to this new editor experience for all users so we do appreciate any feedback before then.*

Kind regards  
Alisson  
Trello Team

comments: author: Minas Engenharia - Constru??o e Minera??o
body: I can't believe in this. Why will be the users obligated to use this new editor? Sincerely, I didn't appreciate this new editor. Like [@Pierre-Yves Mathys](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5139062), I use the cards for others examples and the old editor is the best.

Please, sincerely, consider to keep booth editor versions at the same time forever.

Thanks


author: Alisson Sartor
body: Hello, Minas Engenharia!  

You can click the "Share feedback" blue button to fill up the survey on the experience you have, and can definitely ask for the legacy version to be kept. Every feedback and suggestion you have will be deeply appreciated.   

Kind regards  
Alisson  
Trello Team  


author: Adrian
body: I'm glad there's an option to turn the feature off.

I've left feedback as to why I don't want it. But basically, I want to deal with text with minimal formatting. Not deal with an editor that wants to format everything.

Why would I want it to assume that new lines have paragraph spacing?


author: Alisson Sartor
body: Hello, Adrian!  

Thanks for sharing your opinion in the feedback, our team will definitely take it into consideration!  

<br />

Kind regards  
Alisson  
Trello team


author: Anthony Smith
body: Simply impossible to work with, this cannot be enforced, if it is we have to look for an alternative solution which would mean for everything.  

I mean, copying and pasting a few lines out of a spreadsheet now uploads the entire file? who thought that was a good idea?  

Its not just about resisting change, this destroys workflows, the exact opposite of the purpose of the entire product.


author: Shane
body: It seems like the work around no longer works. Why would you remove this feature?  

Does anyone have a workaround for this so we do not have to use this horrible editor?


author: Lev Lesokhin
body: the "new editor" is insanely bad. i'm going to have to look for other alternatives and move off Trello. what a shame.


author: Peter Sanderse
body: Please for the love of everything, let us use the old editor again - this thing is horrendous to use


author: Salvador Aguirre
body: Awful FORCED choice... :/


author: Diane Taylor
body: HATE the new editor with a passion. If I cannot permanently keep it OFF then I will seriously consider another way of managing my information.

It is not intuitive enough and keeps adding extra spacing after each paragraph WHICH I DO NOT WANT. Let me keep single line spacing for everything and don't try to second-guess what my formatting needs are.

comments: author: Alisson Sartor
body: Hello, Diane!  

Can you leave feedback also on the "Share feedback" blue button and fill up the survey?  

Kind regards  
Alisson  
Trello team


author: Beatrix Paal
body: Oh gosh, I hate the new editor too!! WHY NOT AT LEAST HAVE THE OPTION TO KEEP USING THE OLD ONE????

It is not a disaster in my case like for the person whose code got destroyed, but it is super annoying that the Trello robot is trying to interpret what I want. And then, it does not take a "no" for an answer.

Here is a super simple example:

Try to start a normal paragraph with the characters "1." (one followed by a period). This is not going to be a list, you just happen to want to start a paragraph with these two characters. But it either gets indented or it loses the "1."

Or try to start a list; type "1." and let the robot turn it into a list. Then add some normal text in a few new paragraphs. (So far so good). Now try adding a second list item numbered "2." If you make it indented, it cannot be "2", it will revert to "1.", so now you have two list items that each start with "1." Or, you can keep the "2", but then it has to be a normal paragraph, and not indented.

Whoever designed this editor is trying to reinvent the wheel. MS Word has gone through these problems like 30 years ago! Numbered lists are complicated unless each list item is a single word. Please just let me handle them manually!!!!


author: Alisson Sartor
body: Hello, Beatrix!  

Thanks for the detailed feedback!  

Can you leave this feedback also on the "Share feedback" blue button and fill up the survey?  

Kind regards  
Alisson  
Trello team


author: American Roof Supplements
body: There is not a "Share feedback" button any more??? Where did it go???


author: Philippe Bardon
body: Please leave us using the Markdown editor as we want. I don't want at all to work with this editor and I'll consider moving from Trello.


author: Tammy Turner
body: Yay! I've found this helpful link on another thread *... it will allow you to go back to the old version of non-WYSIWYG editing. You have to reboot Trello to get it to work after turning it off.*

go to [This link](https://trello.com/labs ) (with your username, not mine haha) and then you can disable it.

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/203439i410775925C88BA15/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")

comments: author: sfkleach
body: Unfortunately this option does not stick. Trello keep forcing you to try their editor. We do not want to be guinea pigs for yet another WYSWYG editor. By all means keep it for those people who like it but please do not force it on those of us for whom markdown is is fine.


author: Tammy Turner
body: I have not had this problem. It has stuck...


author: American Roof Supplements
body: Tammy Turner you are an Angel!!!!!!


author: Jonny Gomez
body: THANK YOU TAMMY!!! This editor is beyond awful. The people have spoken Atlassian. Make it right.


author: Beatrix Paal
body: OMG, Thank you!!!


author: Soros Liu
body: Thank you!


author: vertikaldienst
body: regarding "STICKING" it will only be "STICK" to one browser on one mashine one any new Mashine or different browser you have to repeat the procedure...AND in case you share your cards with other User you have to inform them as well, because their action could still change your formating....quite a dissaster

BUT I found an ADON from some third party that at least prevents the new edtor from editing your Link BUT I lost it before installing, in case someone has it please leave a noteher or better contact me direktly Thank you


author: Lev Lesokhin
body: Tammy, thank you for this solution. I hope it sticks on my browser. I'll keep using Trello until it decides to force the "new editor" back on me. Thanks!!


author: Beatrix Paal
body: Oh man, this used to be a super helpful link. I know I used itto (successfully) turn off the new editor, but now my trello is weird again.

Went back to the magic link, and the option has evaporated! WTF.


author: kodmanyagha
body: They removed this option from this link. I think we must hack the atlassian for forcing get back this option. Otherwise they don'T listen us.


author: Anthony Smith
body: The fact that we/I had to google how to turn it off should tell you that the invisible share feedback is not clear and will not give you real feedback, it should be an enforced pop over 'We have switched you to a new editor, if you don't like it...... "

comments: author: Alisson Sartor
body: Hey, Anthony.  

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll add this internally as well.  

Kind Regards,


author: pajacz
body: I do agree, the new editor causes me a headache as I do type fast and takes ages to "initialise" or mention someone by using [@..](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2937680)

When i click to add comment and do start typing immediately but editor is still initialising, so trello consume my key stokes as "hot keys" and start moving, archiving.. etc.. DISASTER !!! Please rollback or keep the option to turn it off.

Thanks!


author: Alisson Sartor
body: Thanks for the suggestion, I'll add this internally as well.  

Kind Regards,


author: Adrian
body: I am rather concerned that I've started seeing this when editing

On 15 August, your editing experience for card descriptions and comments will be updated. {#toc-hId--352391318}
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Does this mean that markdown will completely removed after this date?

That would be a very bad thing.

Time to look for Trello alternatives.

comments: author: Thilo Rusche
body: I have the same concern and am looking for an alternative. Please do post here if you find one!!


author: mnicky
body: Here you go: <https://www.reddit.com/r/trello/comments/1b7g4sm/completely_free_alternatives_to_trello/>


author: mnicky
body: I just wanted to add that ability to not use any kind of WYSIWYG editor is a must have for me and I will look for an alternative as well, if this option won't be kept in Trello going forward.


author: ?ngel Mamberto
body: It is definetely here. I hate the new editor

I cannot believe that they don't allow us to write our own markdown, as we were children that need a wasteful tool to make everything. I love Trello, but this change has made me start looking for alternatives

I cannot understand why you are forcing us to use this shit. It's as simple as keeping both functionalities, letting those who appreciate the new editor just use it, but allowing us, who know how markdown works, to use it in its simplest way

Even worse, they has removed the "Share feedback" button, and obviously has ignored absolutely the comments here. Really hate how companies force us to make things the way they want us to do them, instead of letting us choose what better fits for us


author: Johan R
body: Since there is no more feedback button, I just want to echo what most people here have said. The new editor is terrible, thank god it can still be turned off or we would have had to switch away from Trello altogether, since it added so many headaches and delays in our workflow.

My guess is that the new editor is a way to try to capture a more general, non-tech audience to broaden the market, but doing so is definitely alienating the core customer base.

It would be interesting to see how many of the developers at Trello that use the new editor (by choice). My guess would be few to none.


author: Kim P
body: I just got this notification on Trello just now and it disappoints me that we're losing the Markdown default option on the cards. I tried the new editor, but having the raw text available was useful for my social media copy workflow since it would never have formatting issues when copying \& pasting. I have been using Trello for at least 9 years and got people hooked into the kanban method...
> On August 15, your editing experience for card descriptions and comments will be updated.


author: AWL NSW Illawarra
body: Vote added for continuing to maintain option to toggle off new editor...


author: American Roof Supplements
body: What is the reasoning for going to the new editor? It takes my text that I have been using for 5 years and completely messes everything up. My whole business runs with this app. WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO YOUR CUSTOMERS??????????

comments: author: sfkleach
body: I think this is the high-handed attitude that gives Atlassian a dirty name amongst engineers, I am very sorry to say. I presume that Atlassian have done their research and found there is a majority of users who welcome this, it's absurd to imagine that it will be appreciated by long-standing users.  

Having once been a cheerleader for Trello, I now warn new developers to stay clear of this product. I am very sorry, but it has consigned itself to internet history.


author: vertikaldienst
body: I have over 3000 Cards that depend on the formating as it was before, it will take me months, to have a proper workflow again, was hoping they take as well the superfluos stuff the put around links and email, but it seems they didn't...on my Mac on Crome I can still work with the old editor, but tried to log in with another Mac and there Crome even though logged into my crome account just shows me the new editor

Dissaster!!!!


author: Y I
body: ??????????

???????

Markdown???

???????

???????????


author: Shane
body: I was told by support that for now you can visit <https://trello.com/my/labs> and toggling off '{\*}WYSIWYG Editing{\*}.'  

For now... Markdown support will be deprecated soon.  

<br />

I encourage as many people to open support tickets with Atlassian and ask how to disable the 'New' rich text editor.  

This was one of the reasons our development team decided to work with our sales team on Trello. Since we were able to provide reports and updates via markdown.  

Manually updating this information is not useful. The editor rarely works well or allows us to provide formatting once we paste unformatted text in the editor.  

I hope you are listening Trello.


author: kodmanyagha
body: This isn't acceptable. We want old editor. Or we won't use trello.


author: Tim Washington
body: I too hate the new editor. It slows everything down. I have multiple reasons for turning this off. Atlassian, do not force us to the new editor. It makes it harder and slower to mention people, upload files, etc. The classic editor works very well. I was very frustrated when I had to use the new editor.

comments: author: ?ngel Mamberto
body: Atlassian doesn't care about the users. We should just not use Trello anymore


author: Thilo Rusche
body: Same here, no feedback button that I can see. I've disabled the editor via /labs, but if this becomes a permanent "feature" with no way of disabling it, we will have to move away from Trello. Using raw markdown is a must for any software development team.


author: Kyala Shea
body: I don't see a Share Feedback link as mentioned above, so I assume this feedback feature has since been turned off.  

But I echo the concerns above; I was initially very excited to see the new editor and appreciated the quick shortcuts for some formatting. However, the implementation is clearly not complete and there are far too many bugs for the editor to be usable, let alone useful.  

As others have mentioned, many actions take far too long to return, such that I usually end up tagging myself (the default option), even though I've typed several characters of the recipients name and then the enter key.  

As others have mentioned, the numbered list formatting is very simplistic and doesn't cover a bare minimum of needed cases. The list formatting seems almost completely broken. I can never get it to apply to the list lines exclusively; it always applies either to lines above and below (though separated by multiple newlines) and often applies erratically. The same is true of text formatting; it's extremely difficult to get header formatting to apply only the the line of header text rather than to lines above or below it.  

The lack of flexibility with line spacing is also restricting.  

I hope Trello will keep working on this feature, but always give users the ability to toggle it off, and at the very least keep that ability in place until the editor functions smoothly.  

Thanks for considering our feedback.

comments: author: Alisson Sartor
body: Hello, Kyala!  

Thank you very much for the feedback. I agree with you that keeping this toggle option can be the best solution here, being flexible on this might be the best option.  

You can still disable the editor here in <https://trello.com/my/labs>  

Kind Regards,


author: mnicky
body: It looks like the decision has already been made to not keep the old markdown editor in the end: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trello-discussions/Looks-like-on-August-15-we-ll-all-be-forced-into-the-WYSIWYG/m-p/2755072> :-/

comments: author: Adrian
body: ?


author: mnicky
body: It's funny that the description in labs reads: "This new editor gives you more control of how your content looks...", while in reality it does exactly the opposite, when compared to the old markdown one.  

Why not just keep both options? Please, consider it.


author: AWL NSW Illawarra
body: AAAARGH. We've been swapped to the new editor and past puts everything from 10-12 lines on a single line minus spaces. Help...


author: Adrian Williams
body: The good news from this disappointing decision by Atlassian is that [@Seweryn Kalemba](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5439975) has created an add-in to save us from this misery.

See <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trello-discussions/Looks-like-on-August-15-we-ll-all-be-forced-into-the-WYSIWYG/m-p/2782015#M4034>


author: Phil Nicholls
body: 1 up  

This new editor sucks, Trello is now a painful experience. Bring back markdown.


author: storizzi
body: The mobile app doesn't have a markdown editor yet (thank goodness) so you can always use that. I am relying on it. I have quite a complex workflow and if I edit anything using the desktop app now, it messes up the workflow completely. What I do is copy on my mac and paste into the card on my iPhone.

Yes, I know it's ridiculous, but otherwise I have to abandon my workflow that I took three years to develop.

Yes, I hate this arbitrary decision.

No I am not surprised, because Atlassian bought them. Any acqusition ends up with this kind of thing, trust me. I've been through many on the receiving end in my career.

But it has kicked me up the proverbial to create my own simplified kanban app, and start moving the workflow over there - because once the editor comes to the mobile, I have no chance.

Still, on the upside, that's one less subscription that I'll have to pay for!

Kind of feel like an idiot plowing three years into an ecosystem that could disappear at any time due to one stupid little change like this tbh.


author: Beatrix Paal
body: Oh please

Bring back the markdown editor

Please

Pretty please

I see you guys tried to humor us a bit by accepting markdown input instead of making us mess with the mouse all the time. But once you type something and the robot converts it, there is no way to edit it with markdown anymore. Back to the dreaded buttons and incomprehensible robo-choices. It's like a relentless unyielding autocorrect that you cannot turn off.

Please, please, at least just explain why on earth you eliminated the ability to edit comments using markdown? Right now that markdown language is clearly lurking in the background, since you can use it for input. ONCE. You get ONE chance to type it right. After you hit enter for a new paragraph, you are f\*\*\*ed.

Here is the thing that makes me actually cry:  
You added a handy-dandy markdown helper, so now we don't have to google every time we forget how to do something. So nice and easy. Or would be if only... but let me not repeat myself... Insult to injury comes to mind


author: Salvador Aguirre
body: I heard a company would pirate Jira and keep their own version updated.  

These forced changes made me understand why, very awful decisions :/