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1. rastallian
   Member
   May 9, 2012, 8:19 AM

   In the HTML editing window, if I highlight a section of text and click b-quote, I get
   

   tags around my content, as I would expect, but also two lines before the
   

   and after. I suspect that this is in case someone is highlighting text that is part of a larger paragraph.

   I don't know how easy it would be, but it might be possible to check first, in the "macro", to see if the content is already in a block, and then not add the extra lines. Not that it requires more than deleting two lines, and I realize that whitespace doesn't matter in HTML, so they can always be left in ... however, I doubt that I am the only coder out there who likes to make his code neat and tidy.

   Hope all are well.

   The blog I need help with is humansongs.wordpress.com.

2. rastallian
   Member
   May 9, 2012, 8:20 AM

   LOL. Maybe I should try to remember not to include the tags themselves in the post? I'm talking about b-quotes. :-)

3. thesacredpath
   Staff
   May 9, 2012, 8:28 AM

   The editor here has been broken like this for the 5+ years I've been here (and everywhere else that uses the TinyMCE editor). I've even seen bug reports in the trac listing at TinyMCE. Apparently no one thinks this needs fixing.

   I think after one or two revision cycles it becomes not a bug, but a feature.

   I'd like to see this fixed too as I have to follow around behind all my web clients and fix this, and a myriad of other TinyMCE editor bugs errr.... features, behind them all the time.

4. justpi
   Member
   May 9, 2012, 8:32 AM

   The blank lines go away if you switch to Visual then back to HTML.

5. raincoaster
   Member
   May 9, 2012, 8:40 AM

   A nifty trick, thanks.

6. thesacredpath
   Staff
   May 9, 2012, 9:01 AM

   The visual editor does this as well. I've got all my clients set up to where wordpress automatically corrects XHTML (settings > writing) and I still have to pull out an extra paragraph with a non-breaking space it in at the beginning of blockquotes, and sometimes at the ends. Once in a while things work as they should, but more often than not... not.

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