Ticket #5455: 5455_4.patch

_source/plugins/styles/plugin.js

@@ -1038 +1038 @@
                                         lastChild.mergeSiblings();
                         }
                 }
-        }
+                // We intend to remove the element while still have attributes left on it,
+                // migrate them it into a span (without additional semantics) element instead.
+                else
+                {
+                        var replacement = new CKEDITOR.dom.element( 'span' );
+                        element.copyAttributes( replacement, { _cke_expando : 1 } );
+                        element.moveChildren( replacement );
+                        replacement.replace( element );
+                        replacement.mergeSiblings();
+                }
+        }
 
         function getElement( style, targetDocument )
         {