Center Tags

[Chris]

1) The URL to the page you are on when the bug occurred.

Posting Page

2) What happened, in detail?

The WYSIWYG converts [center] tags to [div style="text-align: center"][/div] which is not equivalent except in IE7 and below (or  IE8 quirks mode), other browser use this to center text but not elements.

3) What do you think should have happened instead?

Keep the center tags. If it's for html5 compliance then the decision to keep font tags has already destroyed that goal plus if you view source on Google's homepage you will see it does generates center tags

4) Can you reproduce this on every pageview?

Yes, the html2bbcode (and vice versa) calls explicitly makes sure that conversion occurs when switching between tabs

5) What browser, version, and operating system are you using?

Firefox 20, Chrome 26, Opera 12, IE9 on Vista or Win7

6) Please attach a screen shot (JPG or PNG -- not GIF or BMP) if it is relevant

n/a

[Michael]

Bug report created and filed.

[Keith Rozett]

Hi Chris,

This is an old bug report by now, but I wanted to ask you something about it. I did some quick tests in Chrome, and that browser seems to treat <center> and <div style="text-align: center;"> as equivalent. I tried it for text, images, and tables.

Could you provide some HTML samples where the 2 are not equivalent? (Obviously it won't work in a post, but I'll just view it as a local file.)

[CheatAreZee]

Just a note for Keith, see here since this area is locked for regular members