Pasting into styled content results in multiple style tags instead of just one

[Teresa Monahan]

To reproduce:

• Open the replacebyclass sample and place the cursor between the words 'sample' and 'text'. Note that these words have a bold styling applied.
• Open the 'Paste as plain text' dialog and type some content.
• Click Ok.
• Switch to source mode to see the HTML content.

Problem: The bold styling is split into 3 different strong tags. It should be merged into one single tag.

Actual Result:

<strong>sample </strong><strong>pasted text </strong><strong>text</strong>

Expected Result:

<strong>sample pasted text text</strong>

This issue is also mentioned in ticket #8908.

It also happens if styled text is pasted into styled content in the editor using Ctrl+V e.g. select the word text in the above sample, place the cursor inside the word sample and use Ctrl+V. There will now be 3 different strong tags for this content.

[Jakub Ś]

This particular TC has been reproducible from CKEditor 3.5

<strong>sa</strong><strong>test</strong><strong>mple text</strong>

Before this version (till 3.4.3) the result was:

<strong>sa</strong>test<strong>mple text</strong>

[Teresa Monahan]

This appears to be fixed in CKEditor 4

[Jakub Ś]

I can confirm that this seems to be working in every browser.