RichTextEditor Bug

Question

The issue i found with the RTE is when using the HTMLText
property and saving the contents somewhere, the font tag has the
size property set to the value you choose in the font size drop
down. This is Ilegal HTML syntax, and when displaying in a regular
HTML page, the text is extremly large. The issue is that HTML does
not recognize any number here higher than a 6, the lowest the
editer will allow you to choose is an 8.
This component should be updated!
instead of using the font "size=N" attribute it should use a
"style='font-size:N"
that way the content of the HTMLText property when saved back
to a source, can then be viewed in a standard html page.
Or change the drop down font size list to show valid font
size values and make the editor display them properly.
Is there an update to address this?
if not, can someone Please Fix it?
TIA
Tim

Answer 1

Hi Peter,
Thank you for the reply and helpful insight.
I followed your advise and submited a bug report.
Robert Vollmar answered the bug request and sent me the
following:
quote:
"The absolute point sizes used by the Flash Player are not
the same as the relative font sizes used in standard HTML. In a web
browser, <FONT SIZE=2> indicates a font size that is one
point smaller than the browser's default font size. The Flash
Player would interpret the tag literally as a font that is 2 pixels
in height."
It's probably a good idea for us to add this note to the Flex
documentation. I will file it as such.
For my purposes we are using flex as a data manager UI. there
are several DB Fields that hold Ntext data types that are edited
via an RTE. I have been saving the data directly without
modification because if you try and fix the font size issue, when
you reload the data it is not viewable by the RTE. So i came up
with a CFC format function to fix the issue on the fly when viewing
it in the browser window.
This function is probably not the best approach but it works.
It will find all the font size attribs and values and add in a
style tag with the font size value as the style value. This needs
to be done because if you have several font tags all with different
values you can not just replace them all with the first value
found.
Anyway I hope this article helps someone else besides me.
Best Regards
Tim
On the HTML page to display the content:
#formatRTEHTML(mytext)#
-- CFC Function --
<cffunction access="public" name="formatRTEHTML"
returntype="string" output="false">
<cfargument name="rte_text" type="string"
required="yes">
<cfset var new ="">
<!---
Format function.
takes the RichTextEditor.HTMLText contents, and formats it
for viewing in HTML
--->
<cfsilent>
<cfloop list="#rte_text#" delimiters=">"
index="L"><cfset r ="">
<cfset x = FindNoCase("SIZE=",L)>
<cfif x gt 0><cfset i = 0>
<cfloop list="#L#" delimiters=" " index="LL"><cfset
i = i + 1>
<cfif LL contains "size=">
<cfset fsv = ListLast(LL,chr(34))>
<cfset r = " style='font-size:#fsv#px' ">
<cfset r = Replace(L," "," #TRIM(r)# ")>
</cfif>
</cfloop>
<cfset r = r & ">">
<cfelse>
<cfset r = L>
</cfif>
<cfset new = new & r>
</cfloop>
</cfsilent>
<cfreturn new>
</cffunction>