SID-00679: TinyMCE loses formatting when using quotes

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.3.2	Perl version:	v5.8.5 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi
Category:	WysiwygPlugin	Server OS:	CentOS release 4.4 (Final)	Last update:	16 years ago

In one of my pages, I tested the use of the typewriter button in the WYSIWYG editor to style monospaced typewriter text. I noticed that the formatting isn't retained when the same text is contained within quotes. (For example: "typewriter" and "monospaced typewriter")

When you click the anchor button to enter Raw Edit mode the typewriter text in quotes is replaced by <span></span> tags. If you save the page without flipping to Raw Edit first, the <span></span> tags don't appear.

The same problem does not occur when quotes surround "bold face text", "italic text", and "colored text".

I'm not sure if this is a WysiwygPlugin or TinyMCEPlugin problem.

Thanks,

-- TonyChung - 2009-12-18

Discussion and Answer

Looking forward to hearing anyone's responses now that we're all fresh into the new year!

-- TonyChung - 2010-01-12

I just tested and it looks normal to me. in WYSIWYG mode, typing test normal bold test "quoted bold" test, then bolding normal bold and quoted bold has the expected effect. A Raw View, Raw Edit, or raw switch via pickax shows this:

test *normal bold* test "<strong>quoted bold</strong>" test

TML (TWiki Markup Language) requires whitespace or parenthesis around bolded words. To get around the TML limitation, the WYSIWYG editor needs to do a workaround to bold text enclosed in double quotes using <strong> tags.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-01-12

<verbatim> <span>...</span> </verbatim>

In the above syntex - span is lost. This is an issue.

Request you to check the following bugs (color stuff is fixed)

• TWikibug:Item6331
• TWikibug:Item6366

Hoping to fix the bugs as soon as possible.

cheers

-- SopanShewale - 2010-01-14

Thanks Peter, Sopan... It helps me to have an understanding of how WYSIWYG and TWiki play together, so I can coach our team to workaround the quotes and span issue until the bug fixes are merged into production.

And Peter, the problem isn't when quoted text appears within equals signs. It's when the equals signs appear within quotes. Your comment that TML requires the text to be surrounded with spaces makes total sense to me.

"this" is different from "=this=" ... but in the latter, there are no spaces between the quotes and the equals.

-- TonyChung - 2010-01-14

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