Font-size overlaps background-color

[Garry Yao]

Reproducing Procedures

1. Open any of the sample page, load the document with the following content and selection;

   <p> [some sample] text </p>
   

2. Apply the 'Background-color' style with 'red' value.
3. Make the following selection based on the result document.

   <p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">some [sample</span> text]</p>
   

4. Apply the 'Font-size' style with value '72pt';
   • Actual Result:
     1. Firefox, IE8 and Safari:
     2. IE6/7:

• Expected Result:
  

[Garry Yao]

This's a continuation of bug #3599.

[Frederico Caldeira Knabben]

Milestone CKEditor 3.x deleted

[Jakub Ś]

Tickets #8437, #2675, #8250 and #8181 were marked as duplicates

[Jakub Ś]

From the ticket #8437 you can see that same thing can be reproduced when pasting from Word.

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There are couple of solution here:

1. Since this is correct HTML and it does what it is told, we can tell users to use HTML in such order to get what they want. Not very user friendly

2. CKEditor could wisely switch spans from

   <span style="background:lime;">
          <span style="color:white;">
              <span style="font-size:36.0pt;">WORD</span>
          </span>
   </span>
   

to (size around background color)

<span style="font-size:36.0pt;">
    <span style="background:teal;">
         <span style="color:white;">ABC</span>
</span>

But what if someone actually wanted something like that- not a good idea.

3. Perhaps best solution would me merging span tags into one. When one wants to add style new rule would have to be added to span and when one wants to remove certain style, only this style would have to be removed and not whole span.
   There is still problem with bold/underline/italics. By default these are represented by strong/em/u. We can't expect editor to merge put these inside span. Either users should know what to use first and what second (can be described in docs) or devs creating apps with CKEditor should set these styles to use spans instead of default tags so as to get merging effect.

This isn't easy issue and there are many cases to be considered. Some of them have been described: #8045, #7498, #8686.

[Jakub Ś]

Just a note - #3599 says that this issue is supposed to be fixed.

[Jakub Ś]

#10478 was marked as duplicate.

[Jakub Ś]

This ticket is in fact part of larger #4505.

[Jakub Ś]

#11100 was marked as duplicate.

[Jakub Ś]

Similar issue for PFW has been fixed in branch t/9991 and will be introduced with milestone 4.6.

[Jakub Ś]

#16760 was marked as duplicate.

[Jakub Ś]

#16758 was marked as duplicate.