arial font not explicitly entered into HTML

Hello,
I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but when editing text in the editor, I've come across an annoying little thingy:

The default font face for the editor seems to be arial. Hence, when editing/previewing (wysiwyg) any text, it all looks good. however, when viewing the source code of the text entered, there is no <font face=arial> .. </font> tags around the text, even when it's explicitly marked and altered.

These font tags are inserted when using other fonts (such as verdana, tahoma etc) but when switching back to arial, the face=arial part is removed from the source.

Quite annoying, because when saved and (for example sent through email) the text is shown in times new roman, the default font for many many applications. (e.g. outlook express)

I've looked around, but can't seem to find this particular behaviour.

Anyone ideas?
Thanks

Wed, 01/28/2004 - 01:09

dvdmierden

Joined: 16/02/2005

Posts: 27

RE: arial font not explicitly entered into HTML

Thanks for your quick reply Jim, and guess what, it works !

Cheers !

Tue, 01/27/2004 - 19:41

jimjimbobim

Joined: 27/01/2004

Posts: 9

RE: arial font not explicitly entered into HTML

This can be fixed by editing

/fck/css/fck_editorarea.css

change the body definition to:

body
{
font-size: 12px;
/*font-family: Arial;*/
}

You can also comment out the font-size bit (I did).

Good luck!
-Jim

Thu, 09/09/2004 - 12:08

rodyman

Joined: 09/09/2004

Posts: 3

RE: arial font not explicitly entered into HTML

Yes but now the Times New Roman font has this problem.

Can this be solved in a different way?

Fri, 10/29/2004 - 05:20

indiandruid

Joined: 29/10/2004

Posts: 2

RE: arial font not explicitly entered into HTML

Even I am facing the same problem as rodyman. I am using FCKEDITOR v1.6.
Kindly help me as soon as possible

Fri, 10/29/2004 - 06:42

rokeefe1

Joined: 29/10/2004

Posts: 4

RE: arial font not explicitly entered into HTML

I tried Jim's suggestion and I commented out the font-family line in my CSS but the editor still does not write the font=Arial tags. Am I missing something?

Mon, 11/01/2004 - 01:05

indiandruid

Joined: 29/10/2004

Posts: 2

RE: arial font not explicitly entered into HTML

hey guys by just commenting the font-family line
now the Times New Roman font has this problem. also if u might have noticed the editor does not put "size=" attribute inside the font tag unless the user explicitly selects some other Font Size rather than using the default font size.
I tried to debug the code present in the function doFontName(combo); in fck_actions.js file but i am unable to find out at which point it removes the name attribute.
Maybe u guys can tweak this code a bit ...
Is there any way we can contact Fred directly to solve our problem..

Mon, 01/03/2005 - 11:54

gilman01

Joined: 03/01/2005

Posts: 1

RE: arial font not explicitly entered into HTML

Has this item been resolved? I am using the latest release and still seeing this problem.