I find all kinds of problems with the way fckeditor places tags. These are some of the errors:
1. Where one word or phrase is selected, the tag will often be applied to the entire sentence or paragraph the word or tag is part of instead of the selected text.
2. When text is copied, it takes the tag of the larger element it is part of with it. When this is copied into text surrounded by a tag, the inserted phrase then is surrounded by nested tags. This often causes styles to be applied incorrectly or creates lots of nested tags and rows of spans at the end of a paragraph.
3. When a tag is applied to text to which another tag has been previously applied, it applies it outside of the existing tag. As a result of cascading preferences, the new tag does not style the text as intended.
4. The "style eraser" does not remove all tags. It is not clear which tags it removes. It seems to decide on its own what to do.
5. In some cases, the editor seems to apply styles from the "editorCSS" stylesheet I am using to get my site styles to show up in the editor as inline styles, making it impossible to apply new styles to these elements.
It is, of course, possible to go into the source code and clean things up, but this defeats my purpose, making it possible for people that don't understand html to edit web content.
These issues end up creating such messy html code that I am ashamed top put in in a web page. In addition, in many cases, the styles don't even show up as intended. Are these problems endemic to this editor??? Is there anything I can do about them??? Anyone know of any editors that work better???
Thanks,
--Kenoli
1. Where one word or phrase is selected, the tag will often be applied to the entire sentence or paragraph the word or tag is part of instead of the selected text.
2. When text is copied, it takes the tag of the larger element it is part of with it. When this is copied into text surrounded by a tag, the inserted phrase then is surrounded by nested tags. This often causes styles to be applied incorrectly or creates lots of nested tags and rows of spans at the end of a paragraph.
3. When a tag is applied to text to which another tag has been previously applied, it applies it outside of the existing tag. As a result of cascading preferences, the new tag does not style the text as intended.
4. The "style eraser" does not remove all tags. It is not clear which tags it removes. It seems to decide on its own what to do.
5. In some cases, the editor seems to apply styles from the "editorCSS" stylesheet I am using to get my site styles to show up in the editor as inline styles, making it impossible to apply new styles to these elements.
It is, of course, possible to go into the source code and clean things up, but this defeats my purpose, making it possible for people that don't understand html to edit web content.
These issues end up creating such messy html code that I am ashamed top put in in a web page. In addition, in many cases, the styles don't even show up as intended. Are these problems endemic to this editor??? Is there anything I can do about them??? Anyone know of any editors that work better???
Thanks,
--Kenoli
Re: Tag placement
Kenoli, I have tried others, this is by far the best editor I have used. I am using the .NET version, it is highly configurable and there is a lot into it. It has many more features than others. I would stick with FCKEditor.
Re: Tag placement
Hello,
I encounter the same problems... It's a real problem for the no html users
I hope it will be correct in the next version.