font tag vs span - is there any solution?

Hi, is there an easy way to force FCKeditor to switch from using <font color= face= etc. to the XHTML behavior like <span style=... ? I have searched through the forum - there are many questions like this, but probably no answers? I would be very thankful for any advices.

P.J.

Thu, 10/19/2006 - 13:06

papricek

Joined: 18/10/2006

Posts: 3

RE: font tag vs span - is there any solution?

I cannot believe that there is no solution of such a problem??

Thu, 10/19/2006 - 22:43

fin_t

Joined: 19/10/2006

Posts: 9

RE: font tag vs span - is there any solution?

I've been trying to find out the same thing myself. Haven´t found it in FCK, already thought of using regular expressions to fix them afterwards with php. This has many downsides, so I´m still looking for a better solution. I´m pretty confident that it is possible to do it within FCK.

Thu, 10/19/2006 - 23:09

fin_t

Joined: 19/10/2006

Posts: 9

RE: font tag vs span - is there any solution?

Actually, my problem is in that font color or span style:color doesn´t end when text color is set to automatic.

<font color="#ff0000">red text<font color="#0000ff">blue text</font></font>

And, at least in Firefox font can be span if in fckconfig.js:
FCKConfig.GeckoUseSPAN = true ;

Sat, 10/21/2006 - 10:13

papricek

Joined: 18/10/2006

Posts: 3

RE: font tag vs span - is there any solution?

I've nearly proceeded to another type of solution: I am trying to clean the FONTs and other things with XSLT slightly after submitting the HTML to the server... I was thinking about regular expressions too, but this seems to me nicer. I can post here my solution, after I will be done with it...

Sun, 10/22/2006 - 22:50

fin_t

Joined: 19/10/2006

Posts: 9

RE: font tag vs span - is there any solution?

What is mainly bothering me with replacing tags after submitting the form, is the fact that it is supposed to be a wysiwyg editor. So user expects the text written to look as it was when the form was submitted, so I´m not sure whether I should edit it after that at all.

Thu, 11/02/2006 - 14:06

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3735

RE: font tag vs span - is there any solution?

There have been several replies about this, but it seems that people prefer to ignore them.
If you use IE then it can't generate span tags to apply things like colors, font sizes or families, but if your really care about XHTML then you shouldn't allow your users to mix such presentational attributes because hiding them in span tags instead of fonts is just a bad trick. You should use just classes so you are really separating markup and presentation.

And another question is as always: why are you going after XHTML? just because it's the latest? are you really complying with XHTML or do you thing that it works because it looks "fine". Read this if you haven't: http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml