Moving inline widget lose applied style (e.g. bold)

[Daniele Arancia]

Part of: #11437

1. open placeholder plugin
2. select a placeholder
3. apply "bold" style to selected placeholder (or another style change)
4. drag the placeholder to another position

Result: moved placeholder lose applied style

[Jakub Ś]

I was able to reproduce this issue from CKEditor 4.3.4 in every browser. Before this version placeholder plugin had bug not allowing it to be used with other plugins.

I don't think however that this problem is in fact a bug. Bold style is applied around the placeholder widget main wrapping tag. When you move placeholder you can't move parent tags around it. Widget doesn't care about its parent tags when dragged.

IMO when one wants bold place holder he should create such place holder plugin or modify existing plugin.

[Daniele Arancia]

Ok, Thanks, I understand, but there is an event that I can overwrite in order to be able to modify the placeholder widget's content to swap strong tag on click on bold button? I need to be able to drag and drop placeholder widget without losing applied style. Many thanks in advance! Daniele

[Piotrek Koszuliński]

From strictly technical POV it makes sense to move placeholder only when dragging placeholder. But from UX POV it definitely makes sense to move entire styling. The same as copy&paste works.

[Piotrek Koszuliński]

I'm setting temporarily milestone to 4.5, because we're working on drag and drop and will touch this part of code. Let's see if it will be fixed automatically.