Inserting HTML comment in IE 7 doesn't work.

[guest]

IE 7 seems to break the inserting of comments.

I've used a custom button to create a page break comment:

config.registerButton("pagebreak", "Insert Page Break", "/htmlarea/images/ed_hr.gif", false,
  function(editor, id) { editor.insertHTML('<!-- PAGE BREAK -->');
  }
  );

It work in FF, but not in IE 7. It works if I change the HTML to something else.

[ray]

This is is a malfunction in IE, I don't think there's much we can do about this :(

[mharrisonline]

Are you using the GetHtml plugin? THis is exactly the kind of thing it takes care of, IE bugs.

[ray]

The comment fails to be inserted in the DOM, although MSDN says range.pasteHTML () may insert any HTML elements including comments, so that would be a bug.

There's no way for GetHtml to get this if never is there

[mharrisonline]

I am using IE7. If I select some text, click on the EditTag plugin's button, paste in <!-- PAGE BREAK --> where I want it to be and click OKAY, then view source, the comment is where I put it.

If I view source and paste <!-- PAGE BREAK --> into the HTML, go to WYSIWYG mode, then return to HTML view, my code is still there.

If I use the edit tag plugin and do not first select any text, then paste in <!-- PAGE BREAK --> and click OKAY, the comment is not there when I look at the source.

If I put a space before and after the comment it also does not work. If I paste in  <!-- PAGE BREAK -->  it works.

Maybe this could be a workaround for you until someone figures out how to fix this new IE bug:

config.registerButton("pagebreak", "Insert Page Break", "/htmlarea/images/ed_hr.gif", false,
  function(editor, id) { editor.insertHTML(' <!-- PAGE BREAK --> ');
  }
  );

[mharrisonline]

Whoops, of course you can't see what I typed.

Insert this HTML, without the - characters

'&-n-b-s-p-;<!-- PAGE BREAK -->&-n-b-s-p-;'

[gogo]

Inactive. Maybe 8 works.