Moodle

Editor deletes spaces using the Word-to-HTML Function

Details

  • Type: Bug Bug
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: 1.7, 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.8, 1.8.1
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: HTML Editor
  • Labels:
    None
  • Environment:
    Firefox 2.0.0.4
  • Affected Branches:
    MOODLE_17_STABLE, MOODLE_18_STABLE

Description

After cutting&pasting texts from MS Word and using the Word-to-HTML function several spaces are deleted. The happens only with Firefox. The same process with IE doesn't show this behaviour.

Issue Links

This issue is duplicated by:
MDL-3043 HTML editor swallows some spaces Minor Closed
This issue has a non-specific relationship to:
MDL-3014 HTML editor concatenates every 10th word Minor Closed
This issue has been marked as being related by:
MDL-16621 Word Document style descriptor visible on Save using some wysiwyg editors and Online Text Assignment Activity in Firefox Major Closed

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Bill Burgos added a comment -

I can confirm this on Moodle version 1.9 also. Replicated on Mac OS X/Linux Firefox 2.0.0.9

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Bill Burgos added a comment - I can confirm this on Moodle version 1.9 also. Replicated on Mac OS X/Linux Firefox 2.0.0.9
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Minh-Tam Nguyen added a comment -

To me it looks like this is the same problem as described in MDL-3014 : "HTML editor concatenates every 10th word".

I have just tried to reproduce it and it still is a problem in Moodle 1.9.4+ (Build: 20090204), when using Firefox. IE is fine:

When posting formatted text from Word 2003 into the HTML Editor in Firefox 3 and then pressing the clean Word HTML button produces a post that contains a load of word style garbage (<!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, ...) followed by the correctly formatted text. However, some words are concatenated seemingly at random (every 7 to 13th space is missing).
Doing the same thing in IE6 doe not produce the garbage style information and does not eat spaces. Instead, the text is formatted as expected.

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Minh-Tam Nguyen added a comment - To me it looks like this is the same problem as described in MDL-3014 : "HTML editor concatenates every 10th word". I have just tried to reproduce it and it still is a problem in Moodle 1.9.4+ (Build: 20090204), when using Firefox. IE is fine: When posting formatted text from Word 2003 into the HTML Editor in Firefox 3 and then pressing the clean Word HTML button produces a post that contains a load of word style garbage (<!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, ...) followed by the correctly formatted text. However, some words are concatenated seemingly at random (every 7 to 13th space is missing). Doing the same thing in IE6 doe not produce the garbage style information and does not eat spaces. Instead, the text is formatted as expected.
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Michael de Raadt added a comment -

Thanks for reporting this issue.

We have detected that this issue has been inactive for over a year has been recorded as affecting versions that are no longer supported.

If you believe that this issue is still relevant to current versions (2.1 and beyond), please comment on the issue. Issues left inactive for a further month will be closed.

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Michael de Raadt added a comment - Thanks for reporting this issue. We have detected that this issue has been inactive for over a year has been recorded as affecting versions that are no longer supported. If you believe that this issue is still relevant to current versions (2.1 and beyond), please comment on the issue. Issues left inactive for a further month will be closed. Michael d; lqjjLKA0p6
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Jill R Brown, PhD added a comment -

I have a teacher that has spaces concatenated when pasting into Moodle from word in IE 9. Please advise.

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Jill R Brown, PhD added a comment - I have a teacher that has spaces concatenated when pasting into Moodle from word in IE 9. Please advise.

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