Item8690: html tags inserted by the WYSIWYG editor prevent Wikiwords expansion

Some users were hit by a behavior of the WYSIWYG editor that puzzled them:

• type some text in the WYSIWYG editor: Sandbox.TestTopic1 is the old one
• force a newline by Shift-Return
• type a WikiWord the optionally some text, e.g: Sandbox.TestTopic2 is the new one
• save

The wikiword is not expansed, because it is right besides the <br /> breakline tag, e.g:

TestTopic1 is the old one
Sandbox.TestTopic2 is the new one

I do not know what could be the general solution for this. And I guess it can happen with many more tags than just BR.

A proposed fix is to make TinyMCE insert on Shift-Return a BR tag + a space after the BR, instead of just BR like "<br /> " It seems to work well, and survives subsequent edit/save cycles.

-- ColasNahaboo - 09 Mar 2010

Raising this to Normal because it's annoying. Needs a developer to care.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 19 Feb 2015

On review, this is not annoying. Shift+return has a specific interpretation i.e. inserting a linebreak. The plugin is accurately reflecting that intent as best it can within the constrains of TML. Inserting a space would violate the WYSIWYG principle.

No action.

-- Main.CrawfordCurrie - 28 Mar 2017 - 09:12

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