Line Breaks are not respected [#264257]

Expected behaviour.
HTMLbox would behave as per default textarea, and linebreaks and paragraphs would be created automatically, when the node form is submitted.

Observed behaviour.
HTMLbox output does not include this line breaks. Text spead over 3 seperate lines is all joined up together.

I guess its something to do with filter ordering, but I don't really understand it.

Regards
Alan

Comment	File	Size	Author
#2	htmlbox1.jpg	100.31 KB	alanburke
#2	htmlbox2.jpg	58.78 KB	alanburke

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Comment #1

Poetro CreditAttribution: Poetro commented 29 May 2008 at 17:26

I can remove the new line removal, but as many leave the "Line break converter" filter on, so they will see more new lines, than they edited into the HTMLBox.
If the "Line break converter" is off, then users without JavaScript or right to use HTMLBox wont have the opportunity to insert newlines without adding HTML into the plain text. Also, i'm open for ideas.

Comment #2

alanburke CreditAttribution: alanburke commented 30 May 2008 at 07:52

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Hmmm

Just to recap, I used the standard 'Fltered HTML' input format, which uses the 'Line break converter' filter.

In the HTML box, I have hit the 'return key' twice, which create new paragraphs.

The Output returned to the screen has inserted <br /> tags, but not in the same place where I had used the return key.
They seem to arbitarily placed.

See two attached images, whcih might explain the issue better.

Thanks for the assistance,

Alan

Comment #3

Poetro CreditAttribution: Poetro commented 10 June 2008 at 18:02

Assigned:	Unassigned	» Poetro
Status:	Active	» Needs review

Fixed in beta3.

Comment #4

frames CreditAttribution: frames commented 7 February 2009 at 14:16

Version:

5.x-1.0-beta2

» 6.x-1.0-beta5

Poetro, I'm using 6.x-1.0-beta5 and I still see this behaviour.

More details:

If I just don't type anything and click on the HTML button, I can see a br. If I remove that br tag, click on HTML again (to turn to WYSIWYG mode) and then click back on HTML (going back to HTML view once again), there is a   and nothing else. Does not make sense to m. Repeating that loop will give me either a break or a non break space. It's one or the other.

As you ask for ideas, I think by default p should be inserted instead in every "enter" keypress. Only a Ctrl+enter should add a break. Non-breaking spaces I'm not sure about, but in pinciple there sholdn't be any, unless a button is added for that.

BTW, this is the best WYSIWYG editor I've seen for comments, as seen in NowPublic. Nice and simple.

Thanks.

Comment #5

thamas

Hungarian

Hungary

CreditAttribution: thamas commented 6 April 2009 at 10:21

It could be browser problem. I had the same line break problem with more RTE-s. Last time I tried to use Opera 9.64 instead of my main Firefox (3.0.8), and Opera worked well (created paragraphs) but FF no. Intresting: start a story in Opera. Save. Edit in FF and it works well too!