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By i25 on
Hey guys,
I've struggled with this one for days. I've looked and read online in the forums etc., and while there seems to be much discussion about the issue, I don't see any solutions.
I'm using FCKeditor - WYSIWYG HTML editor 6.x-2.3 (and have been for a long time now, successfully). Recently, something has changed, and two things are happening:
- When I enter text into the body and save the node (whether it's a node, block etc), the text does not save.
- The "Switch to plain text editor" link doesn't show up.
I've checked the FCKEditor settings, tried upgrading etc., but nothing is working. This has become pretty frustrating!
What's going on? Any suggestions on a fix? Thanks.
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are you testing with a core theme?
Yes. All of my content
Yes. All of my content editing is done with the administration theme, which is Garland.
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any.js errors ?
have you checked the issue queue of module in question for similar reports?
what in the site recently changed?
Have you tried uninstalling, and reinstalling the module on a test site?
Hi VM, Thanks for responding.
Hi VM,
Thanks for responding. Yes, I have searched the issue queue as well.
I just loaded the node/add/story page in IE8 (with "display all script errors" enabled), and I did not have any errors.
As far as what has changed, that's the most confusing thing. This has happened on 2 different sites (totally independent of each other), and both sites have not had any changes made for several weeks. I signed in to make some changes this past weekend, and the problem presented itself.
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is this occurring in all browsers?
FCKEditor is a dead end product. personally, I'd use another editor, if i used any editor. ckeditor replaced fckeditor and with regard to drupal I'd use the wysiwyg api to set an editor up.
Same problem, with fix
Same happened here.
Go Administer>Site config>FCKeditor
Had error in yellow box:
"Not all roles with access fckeditor permission are associated with FCKeditor profiles. As a result, users having the following roles may be unable to use FCKeditor:
[here was a list of roles that lost use of FCKeditor for some unknown reason]
Create new or edit FCKeditor profiles below and in the Basic setup section, check Roles allowed to use this profile"
Did that and it fixed it. No idea why it went south but working again.
FCKeditor broke again
FCKeditor stopped working again today. Appears to be browser issue, OK in Chrome.
See http://drupal.org/node/1783034.
Trouble returned and another fix
Looked OK in Chrome, but not in other browsers. Found another fix at http://drupal.org/node/1770728 #15 and it is working.
FCKeditor -> Default -> Cleanup and output ->Enter mode: -> Set to "<\br>". It solved the problem for me. The Default value of this field is set to "<\ p>" and FCKeditor cuts a comment.
It's not <p> -> <br/>
I made the same fix advocated by that other thread (will cross post there).
I changed the enter mode and it started working again. Then, I changed it back and it kept working.
It looks like the fix happens when you make an update to the configuration.