Editor automatically adds empty rows

[Winfried Thieme]

Some of our users were complaining about automatically added empty rows in their texts. I could reduce the problem to the following html code snippet:

<h1>
 <span style="font-family: times new roman;">Create Instrumentation Loops</span>
</h1>
<p>
 <span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 11pt;">bla bla bla </span>
 <span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 11pt;">another text
  <p>loop object</p>
 </span>
</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h1>
 <span style="font-family: times new roman;">Functional Requirements</span>
</h1>

Every time you switch between design or html view (or every time you save) a new line is added (<p>&nbsp;</p>).
What can I do to avoid this?

Winfried

[Rumen]

Hi Winfried,

You can get this error if you edit non well formed HTML content and switch between the Html and Design modes of RadEditor.

The Rich Text Editing engine of the browser that RadEditor's content area IFRAME uses, tries to validate the non well formed content and the <p> tags in it but without success and produces new non valid XHTML content.

This invalid XHTML content misleads the ConvertToXhtml content filter of RadEditor and the editor starts to produce extra paragraphs with every switch between Html and Design mode or when submitting the content. To stop this behavior you can disable the ConvertToXhtml filter

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

or instruct your users to validate the content before submitting it using the W3C validator dialog of RadEditor and manually correct it.

Regards,
Rumen
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[Winfried Thieme]

Hi Rumen,

thanks for your quick answer. Is there a way to disable the ConvertToXHtml filter by configuration? I don't use the editor on my own but as part of the tool "WikiPlus" from "Kwizcom".

And are their any side effects by switching it off?

Best regards

Winfried

[Rumen]

Hi Winfried,

I am not aware of the WikiPlus tool but you can contact its developers and ask them for help. All available ways to disable the content filters are discussed in this help article: Content Filters.

The ConvertToXhtml filter is responsible for the conversion of the HTML from the editor content area to valid XHTML.

All the best,
Rumen
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