Item11440: Inside formatted text, tags are lost in WYSIWYG transition

If you edit and save this in the WYSIWYG,

this will
disappear.
 and
 this will be surrounded by stars

-- JayenAshar - 14 Jan 2012

As we are talking about data loss (well, loss of formatting), I raised this to urgent.

-- PaulHarvey - 14 Jan 2012

Confirmed on foswiki.org/Sandbox (1.1.4). Not happening on trunk (though the tags are converted to starred wikitext)

-- PaulHarvey - 14 Jan 2012

data loss and/or loss of formatting, depending on (i think) line breaks. displayed text should NOT disappear. the stars are undesirable, but not unusable.

-- JayenAshar - 14 Jan 2012

I was able to save things using sticky tags around the pre block. Putting sticky tags around the b removed the line-starting space character. Using Set WYSIWYGPLUGIN_STICKYBITS = pre.*= had no effect.

-- JayenAshar - 15 Jan 2012

To whoever fixes this: please see if this also closes Item11471

-- PaulHarvey - 27 Jan 2012

Assuming this is a related problem, but:

This will disappear,
leaving an empty pre-tag

As will
this.

Note that it's not just the tag that is lost. It is the text within the tag (sometimes).

-- JayenAshar - 28 Jan 2012

found one problem: Node.pm, line 1131 should be a single-line regex:

    $contents =~ /^($WC::WS)(.*?)($WC::WS)$/s;

-- JayenAshar - 12 Feb 2012

and another change: Node.pm, line 1633 shouldn't convert html2tml in pre tags:

            $options | $WC::NO_BLOCK_TML | $WC::BR2NL | $WC::KEEP_WS );

-- JayenAshar - 12 Feb 2012

See attached patch for test cases.

-- JayenAshar - 12 Feb 2012

Thanks Jayen, patch applied.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 09 Mar 2012

Thanks. As soon as I get selenium working, I'll commit some selenium tests.

-- JayenAshar - 10 Mar 2012

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