Adding multiple lines of text in a textarea in a table indents the text

[Erwin]

Repro:

1. Use Internet Explorer 8
2. Add a table with 1 cell
3. In this cell, add a textarea
   At this moment the html should look like this
   

   <table>
       <tbody>
           <tr>
               <td><textarea style="width: 223px; height: 76px;" rows="4" cols="24"></textarea> </td>
           </tr>
       </tbody>
   </table>

4. Doubleclick on the textarea, and add "Line 1" <ENTER> "Line 2"
5. Now when you save or switch between Design <-> HTML, the second line becomes indented.

Is there a way to circumvent the spaces automatically added by the editor?

Kind regards,

Dries

[Dobromir]

Hi Dries,

The reason for this behavior is that white-space characters (space, newline, etc) inside a TEXTAREA are treated as they are (not like in HTML - multiple spaces are displayed as one) and RadEditor has a built-in filter IndentHTMLContent that inserts white spaces to make the HTML more readable in HTML View mode.

You can disable this filter with the following code:

RadEditor1.DisableFilter(Telerik.Web.UI.EditorFilters.IndentHTMLContent);

You can find more information about the built-in content filters in the following article:
Content Filters

I hope this information helps.

Greetings,
Dobromir
the Telerik team

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