Format overwritten

I'm finding that HTML editor is the same as iRite in that if you format text with colour and sizing then the next time you edit that text, it overwrites pretty much everything except bold and italic.

What am I doing wrong? This is pretty basic functionality and should just work.

Just so I follow... are you saying that if you were to change the text to say the color blue and then re-enter the editor, that the text is no longer blue?

That is correct.
It will keep stuff like H1 tags etc. but if I set the colour and size, it will save it, but the next time I go to the update page, it will no longer be that colour and size.

On your update page when you are looking at the text and it does not have the correct style applied to it can you view the source and see the formatting the same as when it is displaying correctly for you? If the css is being applied the same then there may be some other conflicting css that is causing this on the page. Do you have a link where this can be seen at all?

No, I cannot give access to the pages.

Here is what happens

when I initially apply formatting and go to Source it looks fine:

<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><em><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><strong>test</strong></span></em></span></span></p>

If I then Update the record, then go to Update again and click source, it looks like this:

<p><span style=""><span sans="" comic="" style=""><em><span style=""><strong>test</strong></span></em></span></span></p>

It is doing the same thing to my images and URL's. First time is fine, subsequent edits get messed up.

This has always been a problem with my iRite, in PHP MySQL or Access and ASP. I always assumed it was an Access thing so I just did not offer the feature but now I would really like to make it work to offer a quality CMS.

Is it a collation issue? A character set issue?

Based on what you have here it looks as though there is just some formatting that is applied to the editor on your update page. The reason I think this is because of the way the html is when you try to update.

This:

<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">

Was changed and looks like this:

<span sans="" comic="" style="">

Since these are not attributes that are listed in the original html but are listed as attribute values this tells me that the information is being sent to the editor correctly but that some formatting that is applied is rewriting things. Check the default value of your iRite instance to see if there is any formatting applied to it. If you cannot tell post back with the code on your page for the iRite instance, it should look something like this:

<?php

// WebAssist iRite: Rich Text Editor for Dreamweaver

$WARichTextEditor_1 = CreateRichTextEditor ("test", "WA_iRite/", "100%", "200px", "Default", "../custom/test_test1.js", "");

?>

// WebAssist iRite: Rich Text Editor for Dreamweaver
$WARichTextEditor_1 = CreateRichTextEditor ("textcontent", "../HTMLEditor/", "800px", "500px", "Default", "../custom/content_Insert_textcontent1.js", "");
?>

This occurs in every instance I have ever used either of these versions.

ASP, PHP
css stylesheet from DataAssist
custom css stylesheet
both stylesheets

Sorry first one was from Insert page.
This one is from the update page.

// WebAssist iRite: Rich Text Editor for Dreamweaver
$WARichTextEditor_1 = CreateRichTextEditor ("textcontent", "../HTMLEditor/", "800px", "400px", "Default", "../custom/content_Update_textcontent1.js", "".(str_replace('"', '&quot;', $row_WADAcontent['textcontent'])) ."");
?>

I'm guessing that this bit is the problem:
".(str_replace('"', '&quot;',

but what is the fix, and why does it do this?

I changed this:

".(str_replace('"', '&quot;',

to this:

".(str_replace('"', '"',

because I was struggling with exactly what to delete. It works fine but I would still like to know why this happens.

By default, DataAssist uses the replace function on all fields to replace quotes with the HTML Entity on the update page.

When you apply HTMLEditor to an update page, you will need to rebind the initial value and remove the formatting.


In the HTML Editor Instance, click the Lightning bolt next to initial Value. Select the corresponding Recordset column and set formatting to none. This will remove the replace function without having to manually edit the code.


This was documented for iRite, but has not been updated for HTML Editor.

In the Archived documentation section of the HTML Editor Support page, see the "Adding iRite to your Update page" tutorial.


I will put a suggestion to the documentation team to update that document.