tinyMCE strips out empty span tags

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9/5/2012 2:59:56 PM
digitaliway
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tinyMCE strips out empty span tags

I am using version 2.3.9.0 with tinyMCE and when using the HTML editor I am adding an advance navigation list to the left side that contains span tags.

If I add the following then save it tinyMCE will strip everything inside the <li>

BEFORE:

<li><span class="qmdivider qmdividerx">   </span></li>

AFTER SAVE

<li></li>

I think there is a way to specify valid elements but I am not sure how to do this is the config file or if it is even possible so any help is appreciated.

9/5/2012 3:15:55 PM
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Re: tinyMCE strips out empty span tags

Assuming you prefer TinyMCE over CKEditor, you could use the workaround of going into the instance settings and unchecking the "Use WYSIWYG Editor" box. Then you would just have a raw HTML editor to make changes to that instance, and no code stripping would occur.

9/6/2012 5:41:14 AM
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Re: tinyMCE strips out empty span tags

Thanks Jamie, CKEditor does not strip out empty tags and does work great, but I do like tinyMCE and was hoping to just add some valid elements so I can keep using tinyMCE.

 

I guess my underlying issue is I want sub navigation to display for a particular page that  I am on and when I use the site vertical nav It seems that you can not limit that left nav to only show sub/child pages of the section you are on.  If you have any ideas that would be appreciated.

9/6/2012 7:06:59 AM
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Re: tinyMCE strips out empty span tags

I did some looking around and found a good solution with the PAGEMENU control

  <portal:PageMenu id="PageMenu1" runat="server" UseTreeView="false" Direction="Vertical" />

I am just going to take some time and style it the way I want, but it looks like the way to go for me.

I think it would be great idea if there were some pre-built styles for horizontal and vertical menus available on the mojo site for download.  Possibly just multiple versions of stylemenu.css just to get you going with different menu styles quickly.

9/6/2012 7:14:56 AM
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Re: tinyMCE strips out empty span tags

You alredy have many examples for styling the menu. Go to http://mojoportal.codeplex.com/releases/view/91295 and download the extra-skins.zip there are many skins using vertical menu. 

9/6/2012 2:40:18 PM
Joe Audette
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Re: tinyMCE strips out empty span tags

span is certainly a valid tag. Possibly its a bug in TinyMCE that only happens in lists. If you've upgraded mojoPortal over time, you probably have older versions of TinyMCE on disk and you could switch back to an older version by editing this in web.config and pointing it to one of the older versions that you may find under /ClientScript

<add key="TinyMCE:BasePath" value="~/ClientScript/tiny_mce356/"/>

possibly this bug doesn't exist in other versions of TinyMCE

please only post one question per thread, the menu quesiton should have been on its own thread as it is not related to the subject of this thread.

Best,

Joe

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