id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
2253	Empty anchor tags being removed.	j3gum		"
If you make the code <a href=""bob""></a> FCKeditor will eat it at it's first opportunity.  Since this is perfectly valid code I'm pretty sure this was an '''introduced bug''' while trying to fix '''SF-BUG 1556878'''.  They tried to fix the outcome not the cause and then removed perfectly valid xhtml in the process.

The easiest way to reproduce this is as follows:

1. Start an FCKEditor.[[BR]]
2. Go to source mode (in FCKEditor)[[BR]]
3. Type in <a href=""bob""></a>   (note nothing in the contents area of the anchor)[[BR]]
4. Go to WYSIWYG mode.[[BR]]
5. Go back to source mode.[[BR]]

You'll find that your typing has vanished.

Here's the fix.  The source file is editor/_source/internals/fckxhtml.js in function FCKXHtml.TagProcessors .

If you remove the following lines the ""expected"" behavior returns.
{{{
                // Firefox may create empty tags when deleting the selection in some special cases (SF-BUG 1556878).
                if ( htmlNode.innerHTML.Trim().length == 0 && !htmlNode.name )
                        return false ;
}}}

The '''real''' code that gets run is editor/js/fckeditorcode_gecko.js '''and''' editor/js/fckeditorcode_ie.js .

It's a little tricky to edit this because the lines are '''huge'''.  Remove the following text from both files and you'll be golden:
{{{
if (B.innerHTML.Trim().length==0&&!B.name) return false;
}}}

I suggest this code '''somehow''' makes it into the codebase as a fix.

-- [[BR]]

Jeffrey Hundstad"	Bug	closed	Normal		General	FCKeditor 2.3.2	wontfix	Confirmed HasPatch