[Solved] Inserting unordered list on a collection of lines separated by <br/>?

[AJI]

Our app requires the lines to be separated by <br/> instead of contained in <p/> elements. So we followed this solution: http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/aspnet-mvc/editor/use-lt-br-gt-for-enter-instead-of-lt-p-gt.aspx

Now, the next challenge is how to convert those lines into unordered list? The editor seems to look for <p>, and thus converts the whole text in the editor into a single bullet. Advice appreciated.

[Atanas Korchev]

Hello AJI,

 The Telerik editor works pretty much as MS Word. It creates paragraphs when the user presses "ENTER" and breaks when the user presses "SHIFT+ENTER". Additionally ordered and unordered lists are created based on block elements (paragraphs or divs). When you insert <br /> instead of <p> our code correctly creates one bullet for all content - the same happens in Word as well. I am afraid we cannot change that behavior easily. This would require modification in the source code - custom build which we have to maintain on every release.

Why do you need to use <br/> instead of <p> for new lines? If this is because of extra whitespace - we can rectify that easily with CSS. 

All the best,
Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team

[AJI]

We need <br/> due to legacy issue, where we used an editor control that behaved that way. Modifying the content to have paragraphs instead of line breaks would mean code change to the users of our system.

We're pursuing the CSS solution now. Thank you for your quick response.

[AJI]

We're having difficulty applying CSS for the <p> elements inside the Editor control itself. We see that the Editor iframe has the inline page style for <p>, and we want to override it. Any advice?

[T. Tsonev]

Hi,

You can specify custom stylesheets to be imported in the editor iframe by following the instructions here - Defining Custom Styles

I hope this helps.

Best Regards,
Tsvetomir Tsonev
the Telerik team