[IE8] Text pasted from textarea is underlined if content ends with a link

[Piotr Jasiun]

Moved from: #12341.

• open any sample
• set data to: <p>foo <a href="foo">foo</a></p>
• copy text from some textarea
• paste it... it's underlined :D
• it happens only when pasting into the framed editor and it happens also when pasting using button in the toolbar (and allowing clipboard access)

[Piotr Jasiun]

This issue is tricky. When I paste the content from the textarea and the link is the last element of the document pasted content get a link style but as a HTML tags. So if we have in contents.css:

a
{
	color: #0782C1;
}

and paste:

foo

we get in the pastebin:

<U><FONT color=#0782c1>foo </FONT></U>

If we change style to:

a
{
	text-decoration: none;
}

then we get:

<FONT color=#0066cc>foo </FONT>

Where #0066cc is native IE link color. How cool is it? ;)

We do not see the color because ACF filter out font tag.

Also if we remove link from the end of the document everything is fine.

This happens only on IE8.

[Piotr Jasiun]

The solution might be to add and remove separator. I proposed it in ​t/12348, but this is ugly hack and I am not sure if we should fix issues like this.

[Piotrek Koszuliński]

Nope, this will not do. At least not before we find out why and when it stopped working. You should always check it first in such case.

[Piotrek Koszuliński]

I've just noticed your comment that it's an existing bug on master. In this case we can and should ignore it now.

I'm setting version to 3.0, but I checked past versions up to 3.6.

[Jakub Ś]

You were right - issue can be reproduced from CKEditor 3.0.

What is more I was able to reproduce it in native contenteditable element in IE8-11.