extra linebreaks and formatting stripped - please help

Hi there,
I'm having a couple of really frustrating problems that may or may not be linked:

1) Fck editor seems to add heaps of tags to its content. And when I edit the content and re-submit, the tags seem to double.

2) All the css styles are being stripped - I tested this by exiting the script and echoing the output onto the page. For example <ul class="red"> gets converted to <ul>, and gest converted to . Also, all the line breaks (when I press enter) are converted to ?.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks,
Dave

Sun, 09/07/2008 - 19:05

a.m.

Joined: 20/04/2008

Posts: 256

Re: extra linebreaks and formatting stripped - please help

It sounds there's some server-side code involved or a browser plug-in/add-on. I can save custom styles in my own installation and in the demo on this site. Also, ? may indicate that your character set is misidentified.

Mon, 09/08/2008 - 03:05

crescen3

Joined: 07/09/2008

Posts: 5

Re: extra linebreaks and formatting stripped - please help

Thanks for the quick reply, I've managed to fix the ?issue - that was a problem with the server side code like you mentioned (the charsets were both utf-8).

The real problem now is that it doesn't output any styles, or any tag attibutes - eg <a href="www.test.com"> becomes <a> and becomes . This seems to be a direct output from fckeditor, as this happens before any interaction with the DB. Any ideas why this is happening?

Mon, 09/08/2008 - 12:38

crescen3

Joined: 07/09/2008

Posts: 5

Re: extra linebreaks and formatting stripped - please help

Can anyone help please - im completely stuck. This is driving me nuts and no doubt its probably a simple fix- has anyone encountered this before?
Thanks in advance,
Dave

Mon, 09/08/2008 - 15:42

a.m.

Joined: 20/04/2008

Posts: 256

Re: extra linebreaks and formatting stripped - please help

Use a debugging proxy to see what gets submitted. If you see custom styles gone in the request, it's something in the browser that does this. Otherwise, it's the server. Here's a good one: http://www.charlesproxy.com/.

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 03:30

crescen3

Joined: 07/09/2008

Posts: 5

Re: extra linebreaks and formatting stripped - please help

Thanks A.M, I downloaded Charles and found that the request variables are fine, so therefore the attributes must be being stripped somewhere between there and being written to the database (if I exit the script and echo the results before the DB, the attributes are gone). So therefore it must be a problem with my code, as the fck output seems good. But the strange thing is, I can't see anything in my script that could possibly be doing this. What should I look for?

Also noticed that while usually only tag attributes are removed, <h3> tags are removed entirely.

Thanks,
Dave

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 05:19

crescen3

Joined: 07/09/2008

Posts: 5

Re: extra linebreaks and formatting stripped - please help

Problem solved! Well, nearly. Turns out an included file inside an included file in the header was stripping out certain things from certain field names, and my fckeditor field just happened to have the same name as one of those fields..

Anyway thanks A.M (and Charles) for your help