Block Edit Content Pane Anomaly
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Using Version 5.4.2.1, I have a really weird situation when I open a certain block on one of my pages to edit it. This block has dates (e.g., October 14, 2011) in a centered column that I link to newsetters at a different web site. When my Edit Content pane first opens, all looks normal, with the dates all in a column in the center of the edit pane, all toolbar icons visible above, and no horizontal slide bar at the bottom. But when I click to place my cursor to add a new date at the bottom of the column, the edit panel expands significantly to the right, the centered date column moving accordingly, and a horizontal scroll bar appears. The toolbar icons, of course, remain at the extreme left of the edit pane. Just above the horizontal scroll bar the following appears:
Path: p » span » span » span » span » span » [this sequence continues for 55 more ">> span" sets] until my centered text appears, and then goes on past for another 114 ">> span" sets, with an "a" at the end of the last one. This is the only block on all of my pages where this occurs. Anyone have any idea how to correct/ prevent this?
Path: p » span » span » span » span » span » [this sequence continues for 55 more ">> span" sets] until my centered text appears, and then goes on past for another 114 ">> span" sets, with an "a" at the end of the last one. This is the only block on all of my pages where this occurs. Anyone have any idea how to correct/ prevent this?
Thanks Kirk,
Fixed the problem by editing the html. I'm using the Office tool set in my text editor, and don't have a "remove formatting" icon in it. There is a "clean up messy code" icon and I highlighted all the content and clicked on it but it didn't appear to correct anything. Thanks for the answer you provided. I learned something new again!
Fixed the problem by editing the html. I'm using the Office tool set in my text editor, and don't have a "remove formatting" icon in it. There is a "clean up messy code" icon and I highlighted all the content and clicked on it but it didn't appear to correct anything. Thanks for the answer you provided. I learned something new again!
You're welcome!
Glad you found a resolution.
Glad you found a resolution.
If so, select all the content and hit that button. You'll have to reapply some formatting, but it should zap all those errant spans.
Or... would it be out of the question to manually edit the code? Click the HTML button (aka view source) and delete all <span> and </span> tags.
Then you can start fresh and see if you still have issues.
PS - I'm guessing you pasted the content in from a word processing application like Word and all the bogus styles came over. Try to use the "paste as plain text" option in tinymce (the rich text editor).