FCKeditor and MS Word HTML
ColdFusion
I found a weird issue with pasting MS Word generated HTML into the WYSIWYG editor FCKEDITOR. It all started when a client was pasting some articles, written in Word, into a form on his site. Somehow, magically, all of the names of countries were disappearing!
After a bunch of troubleshooting our code, I decided to go ahead and check the source on the Word doc in its original state. What I found was that Word was wrapping the country names as such < st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan< /st1:country-region >
FCK doesn't like this, and instantly "cleans" out the country name altogether. It looks like TinyMCE, another wysiwyg editor, does not do this, so an easy fix will be to change editors.
Stay tuned for an update to hear what the guys from FCKeditor say.
After a bunch of troubleshooting our code, I decided to go ahead and check the source on the Word doc in its original state. What I found was that Word was wrapping the country names as such < st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan< /st1:country-region >
FCK doesn't like this, and instantly "cleans" out the country name altogether. It looks like TinyMCE, another wysiwyg editor, does not do this, so an easy fix will be to change editors.
Stay tuned for an update to hear what the guys from FCKeditor say.
Aaron Lynch said:
Nothing yet...I emailed FCK himself but just got an automated reply to report a bug in the Sourceforge project. Did that, but it looks like there are a few in line. I think we may need to use TinyMCE for that app as it doesn't "clean" the country names.
Steve Walker said:
I stumbled upon your site and saw this entry. I have tried several times to reproduce the error you described, but to no avail. I am using FCKEditor 2.2. I just migrated all my sites to FCKEditor and will be very curious to see what comes of this.
AJL said:
This error was occurring in version 2.1 I believe. If you want to see if your version does the same error, just paste this <st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region> and see if the "Japan" is saved when you submit the form. AJL
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