I've spent the good portion of my day trying
to figure this out, and I figured I'd finally just give in and ask.
How can you prevent ANY automatic formatting when in SOURCE mode?
I like
to edit HTML source code directly instead of using the WYSIWYG interface, but whenever I write new lines, or layout tags how I would indent them, it all gets formatted when I switch
to WYSIWYG mode and then back
to SOURCE mode again.
I stumbled upon this earlier:
http://dev.fckeditor.net/ticket/993
That alluded
to a setting which may have existed once upon a time which would be exactly what I'm after. I just want
to know how I can completely turn off all automatic formatting when editing in SOURCE mode.
After browsing this site for hours on
end and finding absolutely nothing on here or on Google, I came up with a solution I thought would be foolproof (albeit not a pleasant one).
I learned about the "protectedSource" setting, so I thought, well maybe I can just use that and create an HTML comment tag before all my HTML and another after it and then push a regular expression finding the comment tags into the protectedSource array, but even that (believe it or not) doesn't work. I've tried my expression straight up in the browser outside of CKEDITOR and it is working, but CKEDITOR doesn't protect the code as expected (which I suspect is a bug involving comment tags, since I can get it
to work with other strings). In case you are wondering, this is what I had hoped would work as a work-around, but doesn't:
config.protectedSource.push( /<!-- src -->[\s\S]*<!--
end src-->/gi );
.. and what I planned on doing (for what appears
to be the lack of a setting
to disable formatting in SOURCE mode) was
to nest all my HTML within the commented tags like this:
<!-- src -->
<div>some code that shouldn't be messed with (but is)</div>
<!--
end src -->
I'd love
to hear if you anyone has any suggestions for this scenario, or knows of a setting which I have described, or even if someone can just fill me in as
to why I can't get protectedSource
to work properly with two comment tags. I really thing it's gotta be a bug because I can get so many other expressions
to work fine, and I can even protect HTML within the area of a single comment tag, but I simply cannot get HTML within two different comment tags
to stay untouched.
:(
I've wasted about 6-7 hours on this so far today so if anyone can shed any light on it I would be very grateful!
Thanks for reading! ;)
