Editor in Modal/Modeless dialog formatting problems

[Magnus Persson]

Browser: IE 10 and 11

Document mode: <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />

Problem description: When showing the editor in a Modal or Modeless dialog in Internet explorer 10 and 11 formatting is sometimes not applied and the wrong line is selected.

Reproduce: Create a page that opens a dialog with an editor: showModelessDialog('ShowEditor.html');

1. Write two lines of text in the editor.
2. Select the 2nd line and click on the Styles drop down and select Marker.
3. Select the first line and click on the Italic button.

Expected: The first lines becomes italic.

Actual: The 2nd line becomes italic and selected.

Example: ​http://37.123.176.119/ckeditor/dialogerror.html

[Jakub Ś]

DUP of #5406.

Currently there is no support for Modeless windows. Problems you experience are because of focus issues. There is however support for Modal Windows so I would recommend switching to Modals.