Bold, Italic, Underline plugins not detecting formatting using style element

[gnjoseph@…]

I have a document which is using style elements for bold, italics and underlines. eg:<span style="font-weight:bold">bold</span><span style="text-decoration:underline">underline</span>. I am not able to undo the styles using 'bold' and 'Italic' plugins. The issue is also with other plugins like 'underline' and 'strike through'

[Jakub Ś]

It seems that it has been working that way from CKEditor 3.0.

[Jakub Ś]

This issue is related to #8369

[Jakub Ś]

I have a document which is using style elements for bold, italics and underlines.

@gnjoseph in your case the below workaround might help. Please have a look at ​http://docs.cksource.com/ckeditor_api/symbols/CKEDITOR.config.html#.coreStyles_bold as well as other coreStyles_ properties and apply for them something like I have applied below.

config.coreStyles_bold =
    {
        element : 'span',
        attributes : { 'style' : 'font-weight:bold' },
		overrides : ['strong','b']
    };

That way strong and b tags will be recognized and new tags will be inserted as spans with style.

[gnjoseph@…]

On changing bold to normal style CKEditor removes the span element altogether removing other style attributes. Eg: <p><span style="font-family:Batang; font-weight:bold">Bold</span></p> becomes <p>Bold</p>

[Jakub Ś]

@gnjoseph good point. My last command should sound -
Despite the above workaround there is still an issue with CKEditor as by default it should not only insert strong elements but also recognize those special styled spans with fontweight:bold or text-decoration:underline etc. When removing bold/italic/etc. other styles from span should not be removed E.g. here <span style="font-family:Batang; font-weight:bold">Bold</span> font-family should stay after unbolding the text.

[Jakub Ś]

Issue can still be reproduced in CKE 4.x

Actually only original issue can be reproduced - bold style set to strong replaces whole font-wight:bold span even if span contains more than one style. If you set editor to use span as bold, it will unbold e.g. <span style="font-family:Batang; font-weight:bold">Bold</span> and leave other styles untouched.

It seems that this works based on matching context/styles now. This is very similar to how dropdowns work but unlike #9964 it may be easier to fix this behaviour as there is limited number of styles to add.

[Jakub Ś]

Test created under branch t\8686 under commit: 973f1a2