Problem with paragraph formatting

I've noticed some strange behaviour in how the paragraph formatting behaves:

If i have 3 lines of text separated by blank lines and with the cursor on the first line click one of the paragraph justification buttons, the entire contents of the editor are centered as opposed to just the current line. Most (if not all) text editors (Word, UltraEdit) only apply the formatting to the current line. The same problem exists when I select one of the lines and click justify.

Anyone else experienced this? Smells like a bug to me but maybe I'm missing something...?

Cheers,

Brandon

Fri, 02/03/2006 - 12:14

calophi

Joined: 25/03/2005

Posts: 47

RE: Problem with paragraph formatting

IF you're doing this in Firefox it might have something to do with the editor being unable to split up paragraphs properly, and therefore you just get breaks by a bunch of tags instead of tags...

Fri, 02/03/2006 - 12:17

bcdove

Joined: 03/02/2006

Posts: 6

RE: Problem with paragraph formatting

Actually it's in IE 6.0...

Fri, 02/03/2006 - 12:18

bcdove

Joined: 03/02/2006

Posts: 6

RE: Problem with paragraph formatting

Oh and it happens with text that's not separated by a blank line too...

Sun, 02/05/2006 - 09:15

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3735

RE: Problem with paragraph formatting

The alignment is based on paragraphs, if you insert a then the new line is part of the same paragraph and so the same alignment applies to it.

I have tested with Word and the results are the same: different paragraphs can have any alignment, but a new line created with Shift+Enter keeps the previous alignment.

Thu, 02/16/2006 - 11:19

bcdove

Joined: 03/02/2006

Posts: 6

RE: Problem with paragraph formatting

I've got:

FCKConfig.UseBROnCarriageReturn = true ;

set in my fckconfig.js so elements are being inserted between "paragrahps" in my text. Without the config set this way if I hit a CR I end up getting an extra blank line where I simply wanted to start a new line.

So those of us who use for CR essentially can't have paragraph formatting based on a selection or current line?

Sat, 02/18/2006 - 10:46

dommisse

Joined: 07/03/2006

Posts: 5

RE: Problem with paragraph formatting

Right. Thats the way HTML handles paragraphs. You never will be able to format paragraphs exactly the way a texteditor like Word does.