` tag. Important note: While working on this issue other scenarios like placeholder used in <textarea> or <video> should be checked. Perhaps more parent tags should be excluded. The rule may be that placeholder may only be created in if, according to DTD, text node's parent accepts span. == Original description (incorrect) == This is related to #11223 and [http://ckeditor.com/forums/Support/Ignoring-placeholders-protectedSource-not-working-in-title-element this forum post] I'm using the placeholder plugin in CKEditor 4.3.2, which generally works apart from two issues: * It doesn't allow it to be used in the root of the head tag (so for example you can't use placeholders to generate meta tags); placeholder get moved into the body tag. * Placeholder items in the title tag (and possibly elsewhere) get escaped incorrectly, and then fail to be unescaped on save, or when switching to/from source mode. For example, starting by pasting this document into the source view: {{{ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC ""-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"" ""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd""> <html> <head> <meta content=""text/html; charset=utf-8"" http-equiv=""Content-Type""> <title>[[mytag1]]

id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc 11544 Placeholders should not be upcasted in parents not accepting spans Marcus Bointon Marek Lewandowski "== New description == 1. Download and open [[attachment:11544.html]]. 2. Switch between modes. 3. See that there's a mess in `` tag. Important note: While working on this issue other scenarios like placeholder used in <textarea> or <video> should be checked. Perhaps more parent tags should be excluded. The rule may be that placeholder may only be created in if, according to DTD, text node's parent accepts span. == Original description (incorrect) == This is related to #11223 and [http://ckeditor.com/forums/Support/Ignoring-placeholders-protectedSource-not-working-in-title-element this forum post] I'm using the placeholder plugin in CKEditor 4.3.2, which generally works apart from two issues: * It doesn't allow it to be used in the root of the head tag (so for example you can't use placeholders to generate meta tags); placeholder get moved into the body tag. * Placeholder items in the title tag (and possibly elsewhere) get escaped incorrectly, and then fail to be unescaped on save, or when switching to/from source mode. For example, starting by pasting this document into the source view: {{{ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC ""-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"" ""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd""> <html> <head> <meta content=""text/html; charset=utf-8"" http-equiv=""Content-Type""> <title>[[mytag1]] [[mytag2]] [[mytag3]] }}} Switching to HTML view then back to source results in: {{{ [[mytag1]] [[mytag2]][[mytag3]] }}} You can see an escaping wrapper has been applied in the title tag, and the `[[mytag]]` element in the head tag has been moved into the body. Doing the same switch again results in: {{{ [[mytag1]] [[mytag2]][[mytag3]] }}} It's now double-escaped, and this repeats each time you switch views or save. For me this is a complete showstopper; I can't use CKEditor if it causes content explosions." Bug closed Normal CKEditor 4.3.4 UI : Widgets 4.3 fixed