Format Stripper Problem

[Dan Ehrmann]

I am having a problem with the format stripper in the latest Prometheus editor. If I enter:

    <span>asdasd</span>

into the html view, then switch to design view and click the strip span tags button, the editor then contains:

    <span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"></span>asdasd</span>

Subsequent clicks on the strip span tags button adds even more stuff.

This also happens in the editor on your demo site

[George]

Hi Dan,

Thank you for reporting this issue - I logged it in our ToDo list and we will take it for consideration for the upcoming Service Pack.

Your points were updated.

Kind regards,
George
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[Andrew Robins]

I am also having a similar problem with the editor using the latest version of the editor.

Could you let me know when you expect to have the issues with the stripping of formatting in the editor resolved?

[George]

Hi Kevin,

Could you please verify that you are able to reproduce the problem using the latest version of the control v.619(SP2). We believe that this issue is fixed.

If you are able to reproduce it using the latest version, please send us the exact reproduction steps, along with your test HTML.

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George
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[Chris Miller]

We're having the exact same problem in 2008.03.1125.20 using FF3 and IE7.

[Lini]

Hi,

The original span tag is not removed because of an editor content filter (ConvertFontToSpan). This filter converts all font tags to spans in HTML view and back to fonts in Design view. This is done to help the browser's HTML editing engines, which internally works with font tags. When you click the remove span tags tool nothing happens because all the span tags have been changed to fonts. To workaround this problem, either disable the ConvertFontToSpan filter (from the codebehind use RadEditor1.DisableFilter(EditorFilters.ConvertFontToSpan) or use the strip all font tags tool to remove the elements.

If you have the exact same problem as the original poster (extra span tag being added to the content), then please try to reproduce it on our online demos page - http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/Editor/Examples/Default/DefaultCS.aspx and list the steps you made so we can investigate further.

Best wishes,
Lini
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[Chris Miller]

I will try to disable that content filter. Is there a list of all content filters being used?

I can't reproduce the problem on your demo because your demo doesn't have a format stripper button.

[Lini]

Hi,

The format stripper dropdown is on the right of the Apply CSS Class dropdown. The Telerik.Web.UI.EditorFilters server enumeration has all the available content filters. By default, all filters except MakeUrlsAbsolute are enabled. For more information, see the RadEditor documentation - http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/contentfilters.html.

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Lini
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[Chris Miller]

Thanks ... I thought that button was for coloring text ... my apologies.

So, I went to this page, http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/Editor/Examples/Default/DefaultCS.aspx and then clicked on HTML view, typed in some span tags and then went back to the Design view and stripped span elements. Then, I went back to HTML view and the span tags are still there. This gives me the impression the strip span elements is not working.

Thanks :)

[Lini]

Hi,

Try disabling the ConvertFontToSpan filter for the editor in your project and see how the format stripper behaves then. I have logged this issue in our bug tracker so it should be fixed in one of the next RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX releases.

Best wishes,
Lini
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