# 'Toggle Visual Editor': Collapse permanently by default? (like 'Collapsible Fields')

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**Created:** [June 17, 2022, 5:47am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/toggle-visual-editor-collapse-permanently-by-default-like-collapsible-fields/20845 "2022-06-17T05:47:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![kleinerpirat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/kleinerpirat/32/19863_2.png) [@kleinerpirat](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/kleinerpirat)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 6:01am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/toggle-visual-editor-collapse-permanently-by-default-like-collapsible-fields/20845/2 "2022-06-17T06:01:23Z")

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@hengiesel has talked about this in the following thread:

> [@Default Editor settings instead of persistent](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/default-editor-settings-instead-of-persistent/12761):
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> Currently the editor sticky setting behaves persistent: E.g. if you open the AddCards dialog, toggle a field from non-sticky to sticky, close the dialog, and reopen it, this field will be sticky. I think a good change would be to make meta settings like sticky, which don’t affect the field HTML, non-persistent. Motivation: Ever since we implemented the new HTML editor, a common request is to have fields default to it instead of the WYSIWYG editor. If this setting was persistent however, user…

He’d like to implement a default setting (e.g. set in the Fields dialog), which would persist between sessions, but gets reset to its default when you have manually toggled it within a session (i.e. while adding cards) and then reopen the editor.

So far, he hasn’t gotten around to it, but it is on the roadmap.

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