“Plain text” HTML editor seems to cause problems
Posted by alcrockett on June 17th, 2008
So far whenever I edit HTML using the “plain text” editor iSites seems to want to translate the angle brackets into their entity values, so that when you go to view the HTML the code is visible.
For example, if I enter this into the editor:
<div><p>hello</p></div>
then when I go to view it I see:
<div><p>hello</p></div>
instead of:
hello
This may be happening because when the user saves the entry, the tool parses the input text as XML instead of plain text? I remember having a similar problem when I tried to roll my own HTML editor.
Anyway, the moral of the story is stay away from the plain text editor, use the regular HTML editor instead.