# FCKeditor ChangeLog - What's New?

### Version 2.6 RC

New Features and Improvements:

- [#2017] The FCKeditorAPI.Instances object can now be used to access all FCKeditor instances available in the page.
- [#1980] Attention: By default, the editor now produces <strong> and <em> instead of <b> and <i>.

Fixed Bugs:

- [#1924] The dialog close button is now correctly positioned in IE in RTL languages.
- [#1933] Placeholder dialog will now display the placeholder value correctly in IE.
- [#957] Pressing Enter or typing after a placeholder with the placeholder plugin will no longer generate colored text.
- [#1952] Fixed an issue in FCKTools.FixCssUrls that, other than wrong, was breaking Opera.
- [#1695] Removed Ctrl-Tab hotkey for Source mode and allowed Ctrl-T to work in Firefox.
- [#1666] Fixed permission denied errors during opening popup menus in IE6 under domain relaxation mode.
- [#1934] Fixed JavaScript errors when calling Selection.EnsureSelection() in dialogs.
- [#1920] Fixed SSL warning message when opening image and flash dialogs under HTTPS in IE6.
- [#1955] [#1981] [#1985] [#1989] Fixed XHTML source formatting errors in non-IE browsers.
- [#2000] The # character is now properly encoded in file names returned by the File Browser.
- [#1945] New folders and file names are now properly sanitized against control characters.
- [#1944] Backslash character is now disallowed in current folder path.
- [#1055] Added logic to override JavaScript errors occurring inside the editing frame due to user added JavaScript code.
- [#1647] Hitting ENTER on list items containing block elements will now create new list item elements, instead of adding further blocks to the same list item.
- [#1411] Label only combos now get properly grayed out when moving to source view.
- [#2009] Fixed an important bug regarding styles removal on styled text boundaries, introduced with the 2.6 Beta 1.
- [#2011] Internal CSS <style> tags where being outputted when FullPage=true.
- [#2016] The Link dialog now properly selects the first field when opening it to modify mailto or anchor links. This problem was also throwing an error in IE.
- [#2021] The caret will no longer remain behind in the editing area when the placeholder dialog is opened.
- [#2024] Fixed JavaScript error in IE when the user tries to open dialogs in Source mode.
- [#1853] Setting ShiftEnterMode to p or div now works correctly when EnterMode is br.
- [#1838] Fixed the issue where context menus sometimes don't disappear after selecting an option.
- [#2028] Fixed JavaScript error when EnterMode=br and user tries to insert a page break.
- [#2002] Fixed the issue where the maximize editor button does not vertically expand the editing area in Firefox.
- [#1842] PHP integration: fixed filename encoding problems in file browser.
- [#1832] Calling FCK.InsertHtml() in non-IE browsers would now activate the document processor as expected.
- [#1998] The native XMLHttpRequest class is now used in IE, whenever it is available.
- [#1792] In IE, the browser was able to enter in an infinite loop when working with multiple editors in the same page.
- [#1948] Some CSS rules are reset to dialog elements to avoid conflict with the page CSS.
- [#1965] IE was having problems with SpellerPages, causing some errors to be thrown when completing the spell checking in some situations.
- [#2042] The FitWindow command was throwing an error if executed in an editor where its relative button is not present in the toolbar.
- [#922] Implemented a generic document processor for <OBJECT> and <EMBED> tags.
- [#1831] Fixed the issue where the placeholder icon for <EMBED> tags does not always show up in IE7.
- [#2049] Fixed a deleted cursor CSS attribute in the minified CSS inside fck_dialog_common.js.
- [#1806] In IE, the caret will not any more move to the previous line when selecting a Format style inside an empty paragraph.
- [#1990] In IE, dialogs using API calls which deals with the selection, like InsertHtml now can be sure the selection will be placed in the correct position.
- [#1997] With IE, the first character of table captions where being lost on table creation.
- The selection and cursor position was not being properly handled when creating some elements like forms and tables.
- [#662] In the Perl sample files, the GetServerPath function will now calculate the path properly.

### Version 2.6 Beta 1

New Features and Improvements:

- [#35] New (and cool!) floating dialog system, avoiding problems with popup blockers and enhancing the editor usability.
- [#1886] Adobe AIR compatibility.
- [#123] Full support for document.domain with automatic domain detection.
- [#1622] New inline CSS cache feature, making it possible to avoid downloading the CSS files for the editing area and skins. For that, it is enough to set the EditorAreaCSS, SkinEditorCSS and SkinDialogCSS to string values in the format "/absolute/path/for/urls/|<minified CSS styles". All internal CSS links are already using this feature.
- New language file for Canadian French.

Fixed Bugs:

- [#1643] Resolved several "strict warning" messages in Firefox when running FCKeditor.
- [#1522] The ENTER key will now work properly in IE with the cursor at the start of a formatted block.
- [#1503] It's possible to define in the Styles that a Style (with an empty class) must be shown selected only when no class is present in the current element, and selecting that item will clear the current class (it does apply to any attribute, not only classes).
- [#191] The scrollbars are now being properly shown in Firefox Mac when placing FCKeditor inside a hidden div.
- [#503] Orphaned <li> elements now get properly enclosed in a <ul> on output.
- [#309] The ENTER key will not any more break <button> elements at the beginning of paragraphs.
- [#1654] The editor was not loading on a specific unknown situation. The breaking point has been removed.
- [#1707] The editor no longer hangs when operating on documents imported from Microsoft Word.
- [#1514] Floating panels attached to a shared toolbar among multiple FCKeditor instances are no longer misplaced when the editing areas are absolutely or relatively positioned.
- [#1715] The ShowDropDialog is now enforced only when ForcePasteAsPlainText = true.
- [#1336] Sometimes the autogrow plugin didn't work properly in Firefox.
- [#1728] External toolbars are now properly sized in Opera.
- [#1782] Clicking on radio buttons or checkboxes in the editor in IE will no longer cause lockups in IE.
- [#805] The FCKConfig.Keystrokes commands where executed even if the command itself was disabled.
- [#982] The button to empty the box in the "Paste from Word" has been removed as it leads to confusion for some users.
- [#1682] Editing control elements in Firefox, Opera and Safari now works properly.
- [#1613] The editor was surrounded by a <div> element that wasn't really needed.
- [#676] If a form control was moved in IE after creating it, then it did lose its name.
- [#738] It wasn't possible to change the type of an existing button.
- [#1854] Indentation now works inside table cells.
- [#1717] The editor was entering on looping on some specific cases when dealing with invalid source markup.
- [#1530] Pasting text into the "Find what" fields in the Find and Replace dialog would now activate the find and replace buttons.
- [#1828] The Find/Replace dialog will no longer display wrong starting positions for the match when there are multiple and identical characters preceding the character at the real starting point of the match.
- [#1878] Fixed a JavaScript error which occurs in the Find/Replace dialog when the user presses "Find" or "Replace" after the "No match found" message has appeared.
- [#1355] Line breaks and spaces are now conserved when converting to and from the "Formatted" format.
- [#1670] Improved the background color behind smiley icons and special characters in their corresponding dialogs.
- [#1693] Custom error messages are now properly displayed in the file browser.
- [#970] The text and value fields in the selection box dialog will no longer extend beyond the dialog limits when the user inputs a very long text or value for one of the selection options.
- [#479] Fixed the issue where pressing Enter in an <o:p> tag in IE does not generate line breaks.
- [#481] Fixed the issue where the image preview in image dialog sometimes doesn't display after selecting the image from server browser.
- [#1488] PHP integration: the FCKeditor class is now more PHP5/6 friendly ("public" keyword is used instead of depreciated "var").
- [#1815] PHP integration: removed closing tag: "?>", so no additional whitespace added when files are included.
- [#1906] PHP file browser: fixed problems with DetectHtml() function when open_basedir was set.
- [#1871] PHP file browser: permissions applied with the chmod command are now configurable.
- [#1872] Perl file browser: permissions applied with the chmod command are now configurable.
- [#1873] Python file browser: permissions applied with the chmod command are now configurable.
- [#1572] ColdFusion integration: fixed issues with setting the editor height.
- [#1692] ColdFusion file browser: it is possible now to define TempDirectory to avoid issues with GetTempdirectory() returning an empty string.
- [#1379] ColdFusion file browser: resolved issues with OnRequestEnd.cfm breaking the file browser.
- [#1509] InsertHtml() in IE will no longer turn the preceding normal whitespace into &nbsp;.
- [#958] The AddItem method now has an additional fifth parameter "customData" that will be sent to the Execute method of the command for that menu item, allowing a single command to be used for different menu items..
- [#1502] The RemoveFormat command now also removes the attributes from the cleaned text. The list of attributes is configurable with FCKConfig.RemoveAttributes.
- [#1596] On Safari, dialogs have now right-to-left layout when it runs a RTL language, like Arabic.
- [#1344] Added warning message on Copy and Cut operation failure on IE due to paste permission settings.
- [#1868] Links to file browser has been changed to avoid requests containing double dots.
- [#1229] Converting multiple contiguous paragraphs to Formatted will now be merged into a single <PRE> block.
- [#1627] Samples failed to load from local filesystem in IE7.

See previous versions history