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.
Despite the above workaround there is still an issue with CKEditor as by default it should not only replace span elements with e.g. strong but if span is carrying any extra styles it should remove the bold style and insert strong tag into the remaining span e.g. this <span style="font-family:Batang; font-weight:bold">Bold</span> should be transformed into <span style="font-family:Batang;"><strong>Bold</strong></span>

[Jakub Ś]

Original issue from ticket (unbloding styled span - <span style="font-weight:bold">bold</span>) is no longer reproducible in latest CKE 4.x.

Issue from comment:6 however (removing other styles when unbloding - <span style="font-family:Batang; font-weight:bold">Bold</span>) can still be reproduced in latest CKE 4.1

[Jakub Ś]

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