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[rant] I hate TinyMCE - deckeda - 11-15-2015

that is all


i think


Re: [rant] I hate TinyMCE - OWC Jamie - 11-15-2015

inspiring church sermon this morning ?


Re: [rant] I hate TinyMCE - mattkime - 11-15-2015

yuuuuup


Re: [rant] I hate TinyMCE - bik - 11-15-2015

As rants go, this was a little anti-climactic.

However, I think I have a solution for you –
Stop using Tiny MCE!


Re: [rant] I hate TinyMCE - deckeda - 11-15-2015

I HAVE to add my online content there, so ultimately there's no avoiding it. My "fix" is to create plain text offline and just paste into the window. (The default font type and size it renders is fine.)


Re: [rant] I hate TinyMCE - bik - 11-15-2015

deckeda wrote:
I HAVE to add my online content there, so ultimately there's no avoiding it. My "fix" is to create plain text offline and just paste into the window. (The default font type and size it renders is fine.)

Whose web site is it and what system does it use?
TinyMCE is the default for many CMSs, but not the only option.

Have you asked the administrator if there are any other editors installed? Some systems can have different default editors assigned on a per user basis.

All that said, a lot of visual editors for the web suck and will cause problems if you try to get too fancy.

It's a good idea to start by pasting in plain text. It's also a good thing if you can read HTML code, even if you don't want to type the HTML.

Fo instance, with the visual editors like TinyMCE, a lot of times problems come up when you try to applying formatting and then remove it, and then maybe apply formatting to a different but overlapping string of text.

Some random tag sometimes gets left behind, but you can't see that leftover tag in the visual editor. That's when it's good to be comfortable going into the code view and identifying the stray tag.

Also, it seems you know this, but pasting any kind of formatted/rich text into most of these editors brings a lot of unwanted styles into the editor, so it's best to either type it directly into the editor or copy and paste ONLY plain text (as you're doing).


Re: [rant] I hate TinyMCE - hal - 11-15-2015

is that a rapper?


Re: [rant] I hate TinyMCE - deckeda - 11-15-2015

hal wrote:
is that a rapper?

Yes, but all the songs are lame and so are the rhymes.


Re: [rant] I hate TinyMCE - deckeda - 11-15-2015

@bik

all true ...

It's the group discussion area for my school; I'm not looking to "fix" it per se. It's just a rant. My style of writing often involves a lot of moving text around and as you noted, it can't keep up with that. And so usually, selecting and clicking the un-format/clear formatting button is ignored because there's *nothing* about how the page is setup to become plain text (which from a design perspective I understand), and so it's back to guessing what to display which is what got it into trouble in the first place.

In my opinion, the editor's job is made doubly hard by having to obey two masters, HTML code and code for the CSS that's used. More than once I've had to delete
tags just to get it to respect a simple

tag for example.

I don't have a problem understanding the limitations of such online editors. My disappointment stems from the thing trying to be "Word" where Word isn't needed.


Re: [rant] I hate TinyMCE - M A V I C - 11-16-2015

On a big system I worked on, we got to pick which editor we wanted to implement. Unfortunately, after a lot of research, TinyMCE was still the best option.

deckeda wrote: More than once I've had to delete
tags just to get it to respect a simple

tag for example.


What part of TinyMCE were you using that it inserted divs? I can't think of a time where I've seen it do this where it wasn't from copy & pasting from somewhere else.