Formatting within conten

[Sandra Eibensteiner]

Hello,
We have built some (content templates) within our MOSS site. In order to help our colleagues to create a new article easily and in one corporate style. When creating an article you can choose between these. For example one has a header with a certain size and a table, another une only headers and text. 

Our problem: When editing and saving an article we get  space within the content because paragraphs are added and HTML tags are not closed correrctly so the size within content is differnt. I cleaned the conten templates with the editor but the problems are coming again.  What can we do?

Thanx for your help!

[Rumen]

Hello Sandra,

Yes, you can experience this problem if you edit non well formed HTML content and switch between the Html and Design modes of RadEditor or when submitting the content.

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 by setting the ContentFilters property in the respective ConfigFile.xml and ListCoifgFile.xml files, which are located in the /Program Files/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/web server extensions/wpresources/RadEditorSharePoint/5.x.x.0__1f131a624888eeed/Resources/ folder.

<property name="ContentFilters">RemoveScripts,MakeUrlsAbsolute,FixUlBoldItalic,FixEnclosingP,IECleanAnchors,MozEmStrong,ConvertFontToSpan,IndentHTMLContent</property>

The ConvertToXhtml filter should not be set as a value.

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


All the best,
Rumen
the Telerik team

[Sandra Eibensteiner]

Hello,

we disabled the "converttoXHTML"  Filter. If we want to set a bullet list at one line all content is marked with a bullet at every linebreak.
What should we do? Thank you for your help.

SE

[Dobromir]

Hi Sandra,

RadEditor relays on valid XHTML content to work properly, any invalid XHTML may cause side effects.

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

Kind regards,
Dobromir
the Telerik team

[Brian Ho]

Are there any plans to fix this?  I'm having the same issue where random spaces gets inserted into my table body just switching from Design and HTML mode.  At one point it got so bad that one of the user created 250 pages of empty spaces and got a warning message from IE about script being unresponsive.  I know I can turn off the filter but is there another option?  Like remove paragraph tags in front of Table or UL tags instead of trying to close them??  My editor is randomly inserting </p>, as well as random spaces <div></div> and <p>&nbsp</p> if I have the ConvertXHTMLFilter on.  I'm using the Q3 2010 SP2.  

Also most of my users are not HTML savvy so using the W3C Validator is not an option.

<p>
<table>
<tr>
<td></p>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
.... some text
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p></td>
</tr>
</table>
</p>


 Any help would be appreciated.   Thanks

[Brian Ho]

Just an update on this, I removed the ConvertToXHTML filter and the editor is still adding in extra spaces in the table everytime I switch from designer view to html view.  Can somebody please look into this?


The filters I'm using are:

ContentFilters="RemoveScripts,EncodeScripts,FixUlBoldItalic,FixEnclosingP,IECleanAnchors,MozEmStrong,ConvertFontToSpan,IndentHTMLContent,ConvertCharactersToEntities"

[Rumen]

Hi,

We will release till the end of the business week the new Q1 2011 version of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. The ConvertToXhtml fitler is improved and my suggestion is to test the reported scenario. If you still experience any problems please report them by providing sample HTML content and steps to reproduce.

If the <p> tags are multiplied even when the ConvertToXhtml filter or all built-in filters of RadEditor are disabled then the problem is due to the Rich Text Editing engine of the browser that RadEditor's IFRAME content area uses to provide HTML production and rendering.

Best regards,
Rumen
the Telerik team

[Brian Ho]

Thanks that's great to hear.  Look forward to it.