FCKEditor 2.6 fixed issue with pre tags

Posted May 31st, 2008 in FCKEditor

I use FCKEditor in the admin section of my blog to write posts. I was using the 2.5 beta version (build 16848) and whenever I put <pre> tags into my pages for showing HTML/JS/PHP/etc code followed by e.g. a <div> tag, it would keep converting the HTML entities back from <div> to <div> which caused all sorts of issues.

What is FCKEditor?

FCKEditor is a WYSIWYG Javascript based HTML editor which you can use to edit HTML in a web browser.

Upgrading fixed the issue

I was getting annoyed with this problem, because it kept meaning if I needed to post HTML examples which started with an HTML tag I would need to put some other text in the <pre> section first otherwise the HTML entities for < and > would be removed from the first tag.

I knew there had been an update recently (and also wasn't aware until I wrote this post that I was using a beta version of 2.5 and not the final release) so decided to try that out and see if it fixed the problem.

I installed FCKEditor 2.6 (build 18638) and the problem has been fixed since the version I had installed previously.

Thanks for all of the people who work on FCKEditor and for ironing out bugs like this. Your work is much appreciated and, as I discovered, it pays to keep up to date with new releases.

Share or Bookmark

Share or Bookmark this page using the following services. You will need to have an account with the selected service in order to post links or bookmark this page.

Subscribe or Follow

Subscribe via RSS or email, or follow me on Facebook or Twitter below. The RSS icon takes you through to Feedburner where you can select the service or application to use.