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TJLeahy.Jr...
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Description:
In IE, pressing ENTER creates a paragraph - but in Firefox and
Opera, it creates a break, which, apart from the obvious layout
problems, does not carry the same semantic meaning.
It looks like you tried to correct this, but it didn't really
work out. In Firefox, sometimes you get a break immidiately - then,
when you press ENTER after typing another line of text, these are
suddenly transformed into paragraphs. And sometimes even two of
them, e.g.
<p>content</p><p></p><p>more content</p>
I know this one's complicated to solve, but it has been done
before - FCKEditor, I believe, is one of the only editors that
managed to do it properly across most major browsers.
I believe that consistent ENTER key behavior across the major
browsers should be a high priority, as you can not produce
consistent CSS layout for content with an unpredictable
structure.
I have looked into the matter myself many times in relation to
other editors, but have been unable to understand the techniques
used in FCKEditor... Maybe somebody else gets it??
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Lim Chee Aun
Ryan Mitchell