CKeditor breaks on text field (not on field type Long Text)

I'm not at home right now so I can't verify this, but it would't surprise me if this is the same problem as what was encountered in #466054: FCKeditor: Breaks on CCK textfield (not textarea).
Because D7 for some reason allows markup in textfields, we must find a workaround for this. I have a few ideas but they currently feel a bit hackish, so I'll see if I can polish them a bit before attempting a patch.

Has this been resolved yet, this was an issue raised in November of last year?

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If you have wysiwyg on a textfield (filtered text selected as a field setting), anything you enter in the editor will not be saved. If you enter a bunch of text and click "disable rich-text", the text field remains empty.

Strange.. if you use Firebug (or something similar) to change the text field to a textarea, it works fine. Seems like a bug with CKEditor. Still confirmed bug with CKEditor 3.6.x and the latest WYSIWYG 7.x-2.x-dev.

*EDIT*: Things work fine with TinyMCE. Have to assume this is a problem with CKEditor.

Yes, CKEditor is not designed to work on textfields. I'm considering a workaround where we temporarily "replace" the texfield with a textarea before attaching the editor. The extra textarea would be removed when the editor is detached and its contents moved to the textfield. Not sure how stable that would be though.

Same issue here, just for the record.

Marked #1255462: Ckeditor and CCK Default Text Field? and #1527994: CKeditor submits empty text for text fields as duplicates.

same problem

Oh wow. I was so confused about why my text wasn't being saved! Is there a ckeditor-specific documentation area somewhere for this module to add a note about this?

Marked #466054: FCKeditor: Breaks on CCK textfield (not textarea) a duplicate of this issue.

For those of us trying to make this work - the following is a workaround which seems to do the trick:

1. Add this code in a custom module somewhere:

/**
 * Implements hook_field_widget_info_alter().
 */
function MYCUSTOMMODULENAME_field_widget_info_alter(&$info) {
  if (isset($info['text_textarea'])) {
    $info['text_textarea']['field types'][] = 'text';
  }
}

2. Choose the "Text area (multiple rows)" widget on your normal text field

This makes Drupal output a textarea element for your (short) text field, which ckeditor happily attaches to.

Great workaround idea - using successfully!

Marking this a duplicate since the linked issue already has a patch.