TESTED: TinyMCE span bug in the bullets on Chrome & Safari

  • Hello Friends,

    I think I may have found some clues to the mysterious junk code inserted by TinyMCE in WordPress editor (yes, this is REAL, despite the closing of other threads on this topic).

    I have systematically tested it and found repeatable results. Please read the test results before you decide to shut this thread down as well.

    Browsers tested on Windows 7 (I don’t have a Mac. Do you? Can you test it for us?):

    • Chrome 13.0.782.220 m
    • Firefox 6.0.2
    • IE 9.0.9112.16421
    • Safari 5.1 (7534.50)

    The Problem: When typing into the WP Visual editor, with absolutely no copy paste from anything else, it is possible to get junk span codes inserted into your entries.

    Sample of WP Editor HTML view test: 

    Now we are testing the theory
<ul>
	<li>make a bullet</li>
	<li>make a second bullet</li>
</ul>
<h3><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">Heading 3</span></span></h3>
keep moving

look at the html

    What else I did that you cannot see:
    After “Make a second bullet” I did this:

    1. press return again to remove a bullet
    2. as the VERY NEXT STEP, Type text and then assign it as a Heading 3

    The Clues:
    It happens in:

    • Chrome
    • Safari

    It does not happen in:

    • IE
    • Firefox

    The span tags appear in the Path at the bottom of the Visual editor AS SOON AS I press return and leave the list of bullets.

    Where does this leave us?
    Since this only happens in some browsers, as a user, I don’t see what I can do about this, except only use certain browsers. This is a drag, obviously.

    Why? Getting FF to work well on Win 7 is not easy. That leaves me with IE. Doable, but not my favorite.

    Is there a way that the FF community can make this issue known to Safari and Chrome developers?

    If there’s something more I can do as a user, please let me know.

    Thanks for considering this.

    Rosemary

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  • bump.

    Chrome 14.0.835.187 m

    Truly annoying,
    apparently fixed in next tinymce ?

    https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/17154

    See also:

    https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=28904

    I’ve found it odd that other threads on the same subject have been closed.

    I get the same weird font-size coding when I’m doing bullets as well. I have been using Chrome, but I hadn’t thought about it being a browser issue. I will try again in Firefox to see what happens.

    Normally, when I use WordPress, I post from somewhere besides the native editor. Lately, though, I’ve been using the page in one of my sites for a small wiki, and thought I would put that new full-screen editor to use.

    Yeah, anmari is correct, this is apparently a Chrome issue, which WordPress really can’t do anything about. So, when I need to use the native WordPress editor, I’ll need to open it in Firefox. Slightly annoying maybe, but not the end of the world.

    Thread Starter Rosemary Senjem

    (@rosemarydesigns)

    Or, since it doesn’t happen in the HTML editor, I stay in Chrome and flip back and forth between HTML and Visual editors. Yes, still a pain, but I prefer the Chrome CSS Inspect Element feature. Firefox still chokes after two keystrokes on Win7 and widgets are impossible to work with from IE… What’s a grrrl to do?

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