IE 8 / Chrome 6.0 - unable to wrap text in default font for the HTML page

[Brian Garson]

Hello,

We use the RadEditor to allow our customers to create emails that will be sent to email clients.  We've noticed in IE8 and Chrome that you are unable to set the specific font for an area of text if that font happens to be the same as the default body font for the HTML page the editor is on.  

• if you visit the demo in IE8 or Chrome http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/editor/examples/default/defaultcs.aspx
• select all the content and delete it
• enter sample text
• attempt to mark it as Times New Roman
• if you view the HTML you'll see there are no span tags with font styles around the times new roman sections:

times new roman<br />
<span style="font-family: verdana;">verdana</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia;">georgia</span><br />
times new roman<br />
<span style="font-family: arial;">arial</span>

[Rumen]

Hi Brian,

This default browser's behavior is explained in this KB article: No FONT tags are applied when I type text in the editor.

Sincerely yours,
Rumen
the Telerik team