Improperly formed <BR> tags

[Mike Fleischauer]

This is a two part problem, with the interaction between RadGrid and RadEditor.

I am using (Q1) RadEditor inside a RadGrid.  I have encountered a bit of a problem.  When the user enters newlines within the editor, it renders them as <BR> instead of the proper <BR />.  I generally wouldn't care.  Unfortunatly, later when I do a call to RadGrid->ExportToPdf() I get the following exception:

Invalid XHTML. RadGrid has to render correct XHTML in order to export to PDF.
Parse error:
The 'br' start tag on line 688 does not match the end tag of 'div'. Line 688, position 268.
at line:
<span id="ctl00_BodyPlaceHolder_RadGrid1_ctl00_ctl04_Label2">In lists granted to other people, you currently can't see the thumbnails without permission.<div><br><div>Add a check in file loader for ListPermission exception.</div></div></span>

If you edit the Grid item to not contain any newlines it works correctly.  Add a new return in the editor and export will break again.

So, I either need RadEditor to render properly formatted HTML, or I need Rad Grid to be less strict in its HTML parsing.  Personally, I actually view this as a bug in both products as RadEditor should encode newlines as <BR /> instead of <BR> and RadGrid's export to PDF should be able to handle this situation.


Is there a workaround?

[Rumen]

Hello Mike,

You should not experience this problem, because RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX produces XHTML compliant content and the editor inserts <br/> tags on enter key press. Are you able to insert <br> tags when typing in the editor in the following live example: Column Types?

For your convenience I have attached a video demonstrating my test.


Sincerely yours,
Rumen
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[Josep]

Hello,

Currently we have a similar problem with chrome browser, when press enter, the editor adds  <div><br/></div> instead of <br/>.

Do you know how we can solve it?

Thanks for all.

[Tervel]

Hello Josep,

This is the behavior of the Safari/Chrome browser's rich-text engine. It is not identical to the IE/FF/Opera implementations and we have already logged this for implementation for the coming Q3 2009. At this point there is no way to change this behavior easily.

Best regards,
Tervel
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[Josep]

Hello,

Ok, We wait for the next version.

Thanks for all.

Avanzis.

[Timothy Stanton]

I am seeing the exact same problem in IE7. I am not sure this is only a safari issue

[Mike Fleischauer]

@Timothy Stanton, I agree, we experienced the problem across all browsers we test on ( the big 5 ), it is not specific to the browser.  As I said in my original post, it was the generated html from the rad editor and the parsing of that html by the RadGrid.  If we set a breakpoint and manually reformed <br> to <br />, everything worked fine.

In the end, we just gave up on this feature ( export to pdf ) and use a PDF library we already had access to.  Would be nice to see this resolved anyways.

[Abhijit]

SOLVED: I came across a similar problem. I had BR tags inside of SPAN tags. I changed the SPAN tags with DIV tags but it had no effect.

NOTE that I am using Kendo PDF Export and not RAD Grid but this should work for you too.

Then I compared this with a similar issue with another part of the page. The only difference was P tags. So I replaced my HTML:

<div>content<br/>content</div>

with

<div><p>content<br/>content</p></div>

and I don't see the error anymore. 

Thanks,
Abhijit