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]

Issue can still be reproduced in latest CKE 4.1 (ACF needs to be disabled)

Actually only original issue can be reproduced (bold style set to strong that doesn't remove span with font-weight bold). 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