Uppercase HTML tags with RTE
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Topic: Uppercase HTML tags with RTE
Posted By: rx7tt
Subject: Uppercase HTML tags with RTE
Date Posted: 02 November 2004 at 3:27am
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Can anyone tell me why the HTML tags are formatted in uppercase when using the rich text editor function of the forum but not when it is disabled. ie. <P align="center"> or. <FONT is this something that can be changed in the RTE? |
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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 02 November 2004 at 3:33am
| Why does it matter? It works doesn't it... |
Posted By: rx7tt
Date Posted: 02 November 2004 at 3:41am
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Actually it doesn't for many of my users who's browsers require strict conformance with XHTML guidelines. Which by W3C standards for XHTML lowercase is the standard. |
Posted By: rx7tt
Date Posted: 02 November 2004 at 3:47am
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One other thing I just found is that it does not happen when you manually enter the forum codes ie ([FONT=Arial]Arial[/FONT]) only when using the RTE buttons/menus above the message window. |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 02 November 2004 at 5:25am
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The RTE fetaures of the forum, use the built in RTE fetaures of the web browser. For some reason Internet Explorer, when RTE features are enabled converts allot of HTML tags to uppercase. The RTE fetaures of Mozilla (which I think are better and more w3c complient) don't do this. This has nothing to do with the code in the forum as this dose not change the tags, it's Internet Explorer itself that changes it to uppper case before the message (post) is submitted. If you have a look at the standalone version in the ASP section of this site it has a button to switch to HTML view. You can use this with verious different browsers to see how they change and format the HTML in the editor. Even if you copy and paste lower case HTML tags into IE when in RTE mode, it will often convert them to uppercase. This is a browser problem, and the only fix is to get onto Microsoft and get them to change their RTE implementation in IE. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: rx7tt
Date Posted: 02 November 2004 at 10:52am
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Thanks -borg- So I guess what your saying is I would have to catch any bad tags before the insert and replace them with the correct ones. |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 02 November 2004 at 1:15pm
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You may also want to check out default.asp and add a transitional doctype to it before the <html> tag. Should be understood by strict XHTML browsers and ignore the case issues. ------------- 
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Posted By: rx7tt
Date Posted: 02 November 2004 at 3:22pm
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I always use a docytpe in my pages, either transitional or mobile for phone browsers. With either the tags must be in lower case to be valid XHTML by W3C standards
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From http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/xhtml_html.asp - w3schools.com Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 02 November 2004 at 3:52pm
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I agree if you use an xhtml doctype, but if you use a transitional html 4.01 doctype on the page, it should ignore case even in browsers that default to stirct xhtml. -------------
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