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FCKeditor - WHY: Disable Line break converter (not recommended)

Project:FCKeditor - WYSIWYG HTML editor
Version:5.x-2.3
Component:Documentation
Category:support request
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:closed (fixed)

Issue Summary

on http://drupal.fckeditor.net/troubleshooting#8 i can find the recommendation:

Possible workarounds:

* Enable Line break converter (not recommended).

why should i disable line-break converter if i use fckeditor???

Comments

#1

Status:active» postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Because FCKeditor manages the XHTML for you: line breaks are added for code readability, so if they are also changed to XHTML line breaks (<br />) unexpected line breaks might appear. The line break converter is useful only when you enter plain text. Does this answer your question?

#2

i got an answer from the fckeditor-module-developer himself.

1.
first i turned off line-break filter in my default filter, which caused problems in comments and privatemessages also, as they were not shown with linebreaks. (i run a cron job to update all new entries evey hour with the solution from http://drupal.org/node/240633#comment-873722).
the thing is if a user doesnt use fckeditor by default, he will see
's in his non-html post.
2.
after that i turned on line-break filter in this filter and all the posts where ok, even the ones created in fckeditor
3.
the only problem i still have is if users switch from fckeditor to non-html mode on the node-add and node-edit page. if they switch the linebreaks are gone. (i tried wysiwyg-module with 2 filters - but still switching the mode removes linebreaks).

i think a good solution would be to convert linebreaks with javascript when switching between 2 modes (html and no-html mode in fckeditor)

thanks anyway for your answer.

you do a great job with fckeditor!!!

#3

Status:postponed (maintainer needs more info)» closed (fixed)

#4

You can see the problem if you:

- disable FCK-Editor
- create some nodes with FULL-HTML Filter (line break converter is active)
- enable FCK-Editor
- edit the prev. created nodes with FCK-Editor: When loaded in FCK-Editor all the linebreaks are gone!!!

This is the problem. Can you solve it?

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