Switching between Design and HTML view strips <p> tags

[David Stretch]

Hi,

If I add some text into the HTML editor of the Editor web part like this:

<p>some text</p>

Then switch to the design view and back again, the <p> tags get stripped from the content.

Is this by design?

Thanks

[Rumen]

Hi David,

By default, Internet Explorer wraps the content inside a paragraph tag - this is the default root <p> tag. If this tag is missing the browser automatically adds it. We got many request however to change this behavior, because it was 'tricking" the validators to believe that there is content in the editor. Secondly it was spoiling the layout of page because the content loaded in the editor without the paragraph would be returned surrounded by a paragraph.

That's why we decided to change this by implementing the FixEnclosingP content filter which removes this root paragraph. If you need this paragraph tag then just simply disable this filter using the DisableFilter server method of RadEditor or the ContentFilters property. After disabling this filter the wrapping P tag will be not stripped by RadEditor.

Please, note that if you have more than one paragraphs in the content area:
<p>line1</p>
<p>line2</p>
<p>line3</p>

 then the FixEnclosingP filter will not strip them.


Kind regards,
Rumen
the Telerik team

[David Stretch]

Fantastic, thanks Rumen :)