I cannot change the color of links easily. The <span> is wrapped around the <a> tag and that is overridden by the default ckeditor <a> style. If I modify the text color before adding the link the text color stays but the underline is default blue.
In addition because the <span> tag does not work in older html readers like lotus notes I have to replace it with <font> tags when I save the file. Because the link colors are not getting applied successfully the user will try several times before giving up and then the code has several <span> tags wrapped around the <a> tag. This makes is very difficult to work with custom link colors.
Older versions of lotus notes do not support inline styling. Using the <font> tag is the only way around this issue. In addition users expect to be able to modify the color of a link in the same way they can modify the color of normal text.
Any suggestions for how to manage this effectively will be greatly appreciated. Other than these two issues CKEditor is performing very well for us here and we are getting very positive feedback.
In addition because the <span> tag does not work in older html readers like lotus notes I have to replace it with <font> tags when I save the file. Because the link colors are not getting applied successfully the user will try several times before giving up and then the code has several <span> tags wrapped around the <a> tag. This makes is very difficult to work with custom link colors.
Older versions of lotus notes do not support inline styling. Using the <font> tag is the only way around this issue. In addition users expect to be able to modify the color of a link in the same way they can modify the color of normal text.
Any suggestions for how to manage this effectively will be greatly appreciated. Other than these two issues CKEditor is performing very well for us here and we are getting very positive feedback.
Re: Changing the link color
A possible solution for you about styling the links might be found towards the bottom of this thread:
Change the background color of the CKEditor text area
It's relevant in that thread because changing the background color might require changing the link color.
Re: Changing the link color
However a bigger issue is that the <span> tags are wrapped around the <a> tags which means they are overridden by the default styling for the <a> tag. I think it is reasonable for CKEditor to place <span> tags inside <a> tags by default to get around this issue.