Problem with <p> tag on html text editor

[NingStar]

Hi I think something is wrong with entering <p> tags on html text editor, it seems to disappear after i click save scattering the text format. Please is anyone having the same issue on their network i don't know whether this is a general bug with all Ning networks.

[NingStar]

Please reply here if you are having the same issue.

[Rowald]

Take a look here: http://creators.ning.com/forum/topics/p-instead-of-br

[NingStar]

Thanks I will check it

[Hugh]

There's definitely a bug with the text editor. It seems to manifest itself with some sort of delinkage between the visual and html editors. I can edit on visual just fine, but when I flick to html and then back again to visual , the formatting - line breaks, paras etc in particular - has gone haywire.

It's VERY FRUSTRATING. I had this with message broadcast last night and this morning with the forum.

[NingStar]

Yeah its frustrating I hope Ning team sorts it out for all of us

[Franco Mercalli]

I'm experiencing a lot of frustrating issues too.

You do not even need to click the save button: you just write some html code in html mode, switch to wysiwyg mode and then back to html mode again, and your code will get mangled in a variety of suprising ways!

For instance:

you write

<p>test1 <strong>test2</strong></p>

and you get

<p>test1
<strong>test2</strong></p>

(note: it's not equivalent as it may seem, the blank space is actually lost and test1 and test2 are adjacent, which is not what I wanted)

you write

<p>STAFF</p>
<p><strong>Giuseppe</strong></p>

and you get

<p>STAFF
<strong>Giuseppe</strong></p>

you write

<div>
test
</div>
<div>
test
</div>

and you get

<div><br />
test
</div>
<p>
</p>
<div><br />
test
</div>

and so on.

I'm completely lost...

Wouldn't it be much better to have a "pure" html editor, which respects the html code that is written into it and does not try to help out so creatively?

I sent a ticket to Ning, we will see...

[Lynn Fredricks]

Has someone submitted this ugly, ugly bug?

Ive been opening up the HTML View and pasting in HTML messages. The editor is changing the code, breaking the formatting and making a whole lot of work with inserting <p> and </br> where they didn't exist before. Its simply horrible and turning what used to be a 10 second task into a tedious task.

[Rowald]

Yes, I did. But the outcome was not really satisfying as you are noticing yourself now.

[Franco Mercalli]

Me too. Waiting for the answer.

[Scott Fox]

Me, too.

Also having trouble with spaces that disappear before <em> or <strong> tags.

Hello, Ning?

[Franco Mercalli]

The answer is that they are well aware of the issue and working on it.

They pointed to me to this "official" discussion for the bug: http://creators.ning.com/forum/topics/i-m-having-a-tough-time-editi...

Eric is providing updates in that discussion.

[Ed]

Me too