WYSIWYG spoils html code

[carasmo]

I think the editor works just as intended, you need to separate this custom html from the content that's inside the main editor. There's a variety of ways, make a new template without the editor, turn it off for that page, or for a large site that I did where the client had many, many pages that had lists of images and text that needed to be floated and styled, I did the following:

On the template I put this at the very top, before the html start tag:

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{content block="custom" page_tab="main" assign="custom" label="Custom Content" wysiwyg="false"}

Then one the pages with this custom stuff, I put the html required and then stuck the following where it appears in the content flow:

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{$custom}

So you can have the regular text, the images, the stuff that the wysiwyg can handle and where you want to put the custom stuff, just put {$custom}. Make sure you don't stick it between p tags or some other way of making it not validate.

[Колючка]

I know there are ways to side-step this "bug feature" and I use some of it, thanks a lot Carasmo for a complicated (for me) one Maybe I'll try it on a bigger project.

I know I can disable wysiwyg mode on a certain page, or I can disable wysiwyg mode globally on all pages, and I already did...

But I think it's not a complete solution.

I think the editor works just as intended

If this behavior is a feature I'd like it to be documented, if it's a bug, well, is there a bug-tracker?

[Jos]

If this behavior is a feature I'd like it to be documented, if it's a bug, well, is there a bug-tracker?

http://www.tinymce.com/develop/bugtracker.php
And please don't mention there that you are using CMS Made Simple...else they will laugh at us for ages

[Dr.CSS]

You can't expect a wysiwyg to not correct your code when everybody expects it to correct their code, it helps pages validate and everyone should want valid code, even search engines are looking at that now...

[timwhite98]

FWIW, I switched from PC to Mac and my HTML editor (the popup window that appears by pressing the HTML button) is now appearing.

And since I was able to use the PC in the same way a couple weeks ago, I'm guessing something must've changed.

If this is of use to anyone (and I'm new, so may be clueless and rehasing well known stuff), my OS is Windows 7 on an HP PC.

[fredp]

...That's not my point. I just don't like undocumented, unpredictable, "undisablable" thing. ...

Have you visited the tinymce.com reference docs or searched for (or asked about) this on their forum? TinyMCE has many "documented" cleanup-related config. options that may (or may not) let you "cripple" the editor to your liking.

One can, at their own risk, specify extra options in the Extra Configuration box under the Advanced tab of the Extensions>>TinyMCE WYSIWYG page of the Admin console.

That said, just because something may be possible doesn't mean it's a good idea!

[Колючка]

when everybody expects it to correct their code

And why this "everybody" people are expect this? Look, I'm a newbie in html wysiwyg editing and I didn't expect it will "correct" my code without forewarning.

Have you visited the tinymce.com reference docs or searched for (or asked about) this on their forum?

If it was only in TinyMCE thing I'd surely visit their forum, but I saw it in MicroTiny, TinyMCE and FСКeditorХ wysiwyg editors, and I certainly thought that was cms's problem.

OK, now I see that's kinda "feature" and can not be disabled. I don't like it but what can I do? Just don't use wysiwyg at all. Topic is not "solved" but must be "closed" I guess. Thank you everybody for help and patience.

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