By geokker on

This is a weird one. When I type in a post on IE6 every time a press enter, html-area inserts a

tag when it should insert a
. This results in double spaced paragraph lines which look awful. In FireFox, it correctly inserts
tags. So, I assume this is something to do with the browser detection in the html-area java. Anyone have any ideas?

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geokker commented

In IE6, pressing enter results in pragraph {p}{p /} tags being inserted rather than {br}{br /} tags - which FireFox does in html-area. This is frustrating, and makes IE6 unuseable. Any ideas?

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sepeck commented

Check your input filters settings and try turning on the line break filter. I got fed up with copied characters showing up so just showed the users of the sites I setup how to use the strong tags and such :)

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geokker commented

This is really depressing. It kills the entire CMS for me. There is definitely something wrong with my config as I can't believe people put up with {p} tags being inserted on carriage return - it's just wrong.

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Steven commented

If you are using HTMLarea you don't need the linebreak filter. Try disabling it in the input formats / filter administration screen.

In any case, <p> tags are much more semantically correct than <br />. People need to stop treating Word processors and CMSes as typewriters, and need to write content instead of markup.

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geokker commented

Yes, I've tried toggling the controls. I agree that a paragraph tag is correct after hitting enter. pressing shift-enter for a line break I guess makes more sense. I'd be nice to select which I prefer - it just feels weird.