blog is deleting "empty" html - how to stop that?

[sph]

hello everyone,
hello garvin

i'm very sorry, but i have to bore you with my stupid little questions. again.

so, what matters:
i'm using the wysiwyg-way to create entries. usually.

but as you can see on http://blog.plastick.org/pages/klick.html i'm using some staticpages, and their content i written "by hand".

so, to make all the things happen i want to, it actually is necessary to add some 'title'-tag to my links and to images, the following one:

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title=""

reason: i've created (by using a very good tutorial) own-designed tooltip-popups for links.

now, to avoid the regular-shown tooltip (which shows the 'title'-tagged text or the url), i have to add this empty tag.

problem:
each time i re-edit the content, this tags are deleted.

i think because they are empty something declares them as "not needed". so everytime i edit this content, i'll have to put this tag to each image and each link, again.

and this is not really what i expected - this should be a link-page! o.0

so, is there a way to disable this behaviour for my staticpages? or generally? or something?

help, ideas, thoughts very welcome!

greets, have nice days,

sph

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

This is caused by the WYSIWYG editor. You can't do much about it, except turning off the WYSIWYG editor.

Maybe using any of the alternate editors tinymce/fckeditor/xinha might do the trick.

But it's a general problem that the WYSIWYG editor needs to parse all HTML elements, and removes attributes it can not properly parse out.

Best regards,
Garvin

[sph]

hi!

so, now i understand why this happens. so, another idea to "fix" this:

is there a way to "deactivate" the wysiwyg only for the staticpages?
in fact i type them all by hand, so this "feature" would be really nice. but... how to manage this?

where?

or is this impossible?

greets,

sph

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

No, such an option is currently not possible. It would also be a bit knifflig to do that, so don't expect that this feature will happen anytime soon.

Since one usually does not modify staticpages so often, can'T you disable your WYSIWYG before you edit staticpages?

Best regards,
Garvin

[sph]

hm, i guess i'll have to live with this.

thanx anyway!

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update:

i'm bored right this moment, and i like to play. i really don't understand things like "javascript" or similar, so i can really understand if you're like "THEN DON'T FUCKING TOUCH SUCH FILES!"

but i did. (making backups and how-to-txts to remember what i did...)

file: ...\htmlarea\htmlarea.js
line: 904

before:

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902 	switch (mode) {
903 	    case "textmode":
904 		this._textArea.value = this.getHTML();
905		this._iframe.style.display = "none";
906 		this._textArea.style.display = "block";
907 		if (this.config.statusBar) {
908 			this._statusBar.innerHTML = HTMLArea.I18N.msg["TEXT_MODE"];
909 		}

after:

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902 	switch (mode) {
903 	    case "textmode":
904 		
905		this._iframe.style.display = "none";
906 		this._textArea.style.display = "block";
907 		if (this.config.statusBar) {
908 			this._statusBar.innerHTML = HTMLArea.I18N.msg["TEXT_MODE"];
909 		}

... seems to work - no html is changed now when switching from textmode to wysiwyg or vice versa. as i said, just playing, just bored. so, what now? do i have to expect the whole thing to crashdown now, ruin everything, or something? or should i just do this "mod" again, after the htmlarea was updated?


greets

sph

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Hm, I can't tell. I don't use the WYSIWYG editor. But you can test it and tell us if it works properly with entries etc. in the future.

Regards,
Garvin

[sph]

hm, okay - could be an idea. i think writing some entries and modifying the staticpages the next few weeks would be enough to tell what happened.

... this is so "exciting"!

[sph]

so, a faster report than thought:


do not do this!



this will work for my purposes, yeah. but this will do following, too:

write a text in wysiwyg -> swith to textmode = your text is deleted.

write something in textmode -> switch to wysiwyg -> delete text -> switch to textmode = text is still there.

this behaviour is nothing i like to recommend. and btw, this is only happening to new entries. if you have saved your entry once, you can work as usual with them. (so far as i know now...

so, i can write now entries in wysiwyg-mode without any problem, i can write now staticpages in textmode without any problem - i just have to make sure _not_ to switch to textmode while writing. it would'nt be this good.... ^^