TinyMCE many many <br> tags

Ian_x_harris

Hi,

We're currently upgrading from TS 6.7.2 to 7.3.1 which means saying a "fond" farewell to the VFE.

While trying to migrate our DCTs to TinyMCE I'm hitting a nasty issue with existing DRCs (authored using the VFE). When the DCR opens I get lots of <br/> tags in the textarea.

These <br/> tags aren't in the actual DCR although they do end up there if you save it as you'd expect. If you delete them from the element, save and close and then reopen the file the <br/> tags reappear. So it seems to be something that TinyMCE is doing.

Has anyone seen this before/have a solution?

Best Regards
Ian

Rick Poulin

TinyMCE authors HTML and only HTML. Thus, the only way to separate blocks of texts into paragraphs is either to use <br/> or wrap the blocks in <p> tags (whitespace, including line breaks, is irrelevant). It uses BR by default, but you can switch it to use P tags via the TinyMCE config.

See force_p_newlines @ http://www.tinymce.com/wiki.php/Configuration

If your previous content relied on line breaks rather than HTML tags, you'll have to use the presentation layer to s/tags/\n/g;