Automatic font color not applying once font color has been changed (outputHTML)

[Nora]

Reproduce Steps: Open CKEditor Type text Highlight text and change font color Highlight text and click 'Automatic' in the font color drop down Observe the font color doesn't change to the automatic font color

Chrome (latest) on Linux 13.04 Gnome 3

I'm attaching my config file since I can't reproduce this on the CKEditor forum.

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Edit:

1. Open outputHTML sample
2. Clear contents, type foo and select text with Ctrl+A
3. Apply foreground color e.g. blue.
4. Apply automatic color.

Result: it won't work. For some reason when foreground is represented by font tag (not span) removing tag (applying automatic color) won't work.

Problem can be reproduced from CKEditor 3.3 in both CKE 3.x and CKE 4.x.

Please also note that you don't need Linux for this. Problem can be reproduced anywhere.

[Nora]

Config file for my ckeditor

[Piotrek Koszuliński]

Linux 13.04? I suppose you meant Ubuntu 13.04 ;).

[Piotrek Koszuliński]

Anyway, I see that you're using config from pretty old version of HTML output sample. I tested your case on the newest one and there's no problem with it. Could you verify this?

[Nora]

Yes, I meant Ubuntu. Late on a Friday...

Where might I find the new one to verify with?

[Nora]

Used the configuration code from ​http://nightly.ckeditor.com/13-05-06-07-42/standard/samples/plugins/htmlwriter/outputhtml.html but still am seeing the bug. Is there more code I should attach that would be useful?

[Piotrek Koszuliński]

Are you able to reproduce this on: ​http://nightly.ckeditor.com/13-05-06-07-42/full/samples/plugins/htmlwriter/outputhtml.html?

What I am doing:

1. CTRL+A, DEL.
2. Type 'foo'.
3. Select 'foo' by mouse or by CTRL+A.
4. Pick a background color. Style was applied.
5. Select 'foo' once again, or leave empty selection in it.
6. Pick 'automatic' from background color picker. Style was removed - text has white background again.

Tested on Chrome 26.0.1410.63 on Ubuntu 12.04.

[Nora]

Background color works fine in my implementation, it's the font color that's not resetting to automatic. On that link I'm also unable to reset font color to automatic.

My steps:

1. CTRL+A, DEL
2. Type 'foo'
3. Select 'foo' by mouse or CTRL+A
4. Pick a foreground color. Style is applied
5. Select 'foo' once again
6. Pick 'automatic' from the foreground color picker. Style is not removed

[Nora]

Is this going to be fixed or should I just tell my QA team it's broken indefinitely?

[Jakub Ś]

This still seems to be an issue in latest CKEditor 4.2. I was able to reproduce this in every browser in OutputHTML sample.