Losing formatting when switching between Source and WYSIWYG in CKEditor 4.2

Question

I am using CKEditor version 4.2.2 Drupal module. When I toggle the 'Source' button (swithing between Plain Text and Rich Text) I end up losing some tags. It seems that the CKEditor rewrites the HTML code. I did quite a bit of search so far about this and I added in the "Custom JavaScript configuration" (in the configuration section of the CKEditor module), this line of code:

config.allowedContent = true;

With the above code I had partial success, now it leaves alone more tags but for the following code:

<h2>404<i class="icon-file"></i></h2>

CKEditor rewrites it as:

<h2>404</h2>

It removes the empty i tags. The i tag above is for font icons.

How can I prevent CKEditor from rewriting the Markup when switching between Source View and WYSIWYG view?

The problem I have is that multiple users edit the same document and some use WYSIWYG editor while others use the Plain text view. And you see how things get messy.

Thanks.

Solution

For this instructions we assume your virtual server has IP: 83.170.XXX.XXX (replace with the real IP everywhere).

Then login via SSH as root

ssh [email protected]

Following these commands and instructions, update Ubuntu:

apt-get update 
apt-get upgrade 
apt-get install pptpd

Edit the file /etc/pptpd.conf and add:

localip 192.168.0.1 
remoteip 192.168.0.2-254

Insert the name servers in /etc/ppp/pptpd-options:

ms-dns 8.8.8.8
ms-dns 8.8.4.4

Create two test users in /etc/ppp/chap-secrets

user1 pptpd password1 * 
user2 pptpd password2 *

Setup routing for VPN server in /etc/sysctl.conf:

net.ipv4.ip_forward=1

Now edit /etc/rc.local (insert before exit 0 and replace 83.XXX.XXX.XXX with your VPS IP number):

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.0.0/24 ! -d 192.168.0.0/24 -j SNAT --to-source 83.XXX.XXX.XXX

Restart and we are done.

shutdown -r now

Now you can log in with VPN over PPTP with either of the credentials you created before:

• user1/password1
• user2/password2

Source

This video will help you also

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Comments

[Joel Peltonen]

The tag <i> already has a historical semantic meaning as "italic". There's no real point in using it for an icon. Use some other tag and it'll be nicer.

[AlfonsoML]

possible duplicate of CKeditor strips <i> Tag

[Admin]

I have tried using Windows PPTP connection to my VPS server after following those procedures. Windows kept giving me this error: Error 619: A connection to the remote computer could not be established, so the port used for the connection was closed.

[Boutros AbiChedid]

Thanks Nenotlep for directing me to the right answer. To recap: I am using Font-Awesome, and I want to prevent the CKEditor 4.2 from removing the <i></i> tag. Here is the original solution: drupal.org/node/1908696 It works great for me.