Viewing Source can change the order of elements in IE

[Martin@…]

Use the following source and toggle "View Source". On the first occasion the bottom item leaps to the top. Subsequent attempts to view source give a javascript error.

<p><span class="Normal"> <p>Line 1</p> </span><span class="Code">Line 2<br /> Line 3 <p>&nbsp;</p> </span></p> <div align="center">Line 4</div> <p>&nbsp;</p>

[fredck]

The problem is that the provided code is messed up, with block elements inside each other. IE tries to parse it an then a chaos happen in its (buggy) DOM tree.

Firefox does a better job in this sense, leaving it messed up as before.

I don't believe a fix for it could be provided anytime soon. We must work instead, to avoid FCKeditor producing code like the above. If a user instead throws invalid code in the source, then it is normal to have unexpected results. In those cases it is better to disable the source view at all.

[fredck]

We've been thinking about creating a text parser which generates the source view, based on the editing area innerHTML, which would also make a code cleanup. We are not yet sure we'll be really creating it, but if we go that way, that code could be useful to try to provide a fix for this ticket too (fixing the source when switching back).

[fredck]

A fix for it has been introduced with #3003.