SID-01521: WYSIWYG editor removes text from topic

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.1.1	Perl version:	5.8
Category:	CategoryEditing	Server OS:	Linux	Last update:	13 years ago

A group of TWiki users were working on a topic with the raw editor and WYSIWYG editor. A user had introduced some <ul> </ul> tags with the raw editor but in between had not used any <li> tags. The WYSIWYG editor was later used to modify some text. This resulted in all the text between the <ul> tags being deleted.

Although the user had made the wrong use of the html tag it seemed a little harsh for the editor to remove all of this text.

2 questions:

1. Has anyone experienced this and if so is there a fix?
2. Is it possible to disable the WYSIWYG by topic name?

-- PeterJones - 2012-08-24

Discussion and Answer

Deleting stuff? Bad boy, bad boy, how can you behave like this?

The WYSIWYG editor has some limitations. You can work around this.

• You can disable the WYSIWYG editor for a page by adding this setting in the page:
  • Set EDITMETHOD = raw
• You can enclose tags that you do not want to be mangled in <sticky>...</sticky> tags.
• You can use proper HTML, such as <blockquote>...</blockquote> to indent text.
• You could define a system wide preferences setting to support indent, see example below.

Example: Set this in your Main.TWikiPreferences:

   * Indent:
      * Set STARTINDENT = <div style="margin-left: 3em">
      * Set ENDINDENT = </div>

Then you can use it by enclosing text in %STARTINDENT%...%ENDINDENT% variables, as in:

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-08-24

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