Item13476: recognize smilies between html tags

Sometimes, Smilies are sitting between HTML Tags. For instance, when they are entries in a table cell, and Foswiki decides to remove all those "unnecessary white spaces". And then I end up with:

<table style="weird: perhaps;"><tr><td>:mysmilie:</td></tr></table

which is being rendered as: :mysmilie: (the word, not the smilie).

Of course I can do a search and replace:

search: :coolsmilie:
replace:   :coolsmilie:  

In this case, the smilies will be recognized, and will appear on my page like they should.

But I will have to repeat that replace every time I edit that page because the editor will "optimize" the html code and will remove those nonbreaking spaces and spaces.

-- BirgitNietsch - 25 Jun 2015

Could you try your test in the http://trunk.foswiki.org/Sandbox ... I think that Wysiwyg on the upcoming 1.2. preserves the white space without the need for the  . I'm unable to recreate the loss of the smiley. Take a look at http://trunk.foswiki.org/Sandbox/TestT%C3%B6pic

-- GeorgeClark - 25 Jun 2015

Been there, done that. You have to set some table options inside the editor: border larger than 1, some cell padding, height and width. Otherwise, your editor turns the table into

| :skull: |

and tml tables are always padded with spaces.

-- BirgitNietsch - 25 Jun 2015

White space management in the WysiwygPlugin is a significant minefield. I doubt anything will be done here for 1.2. What you can to is surround your custom markup with <sticky> tags. That will prevent TinyMCE from touching anything within the tags.

-- GeorgeClark - 25 Jun 2015

Perhaps. But, IMHO, angle brackets close to a smilie should not hinder the detection of a smilie. I think they should be treated like white spaces. Or is that impossible or having evil side effects?

-- BirgitNietsch - 26 Jun 2015

Workaround: I'm now using wiki variables instead of smilies.

-- BirgitNietsch - 24 Jul 2015

I'm going to flip this to needing a proposal. The use of HTML as an escape to TML rendering is intended operation. eg. <nop> as an escape, is actually implemented as any html tag prior to TML. A change in rendering of this magnitude would need careful consideration as it is likely to break a lot of existing topics.

-- GeorgeClark - 24 Dec 2015

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