The HTML editor inserts some unwanted <p> tags....
It's even worse than I thought. Say a user enters this as his comment, in the regular jAlbum edit mode:
This is line 1.
This is line 2.
This is line 3.
In my skins, the image comment, whether for a thumbnail or slide image, will appear exactly as he's entered it - three lines of text. Why? Because the skin replaces the newlines with HTML breaks, since HTML ignores newlines. In
Tiger, however, the comment appears as a single line - the skin doesn't make the substitution (I regard that as a bug).
Now the user enters that comment in the new HTML editor. The editor "helpfully" puts paragraph tags around each line. In my skins, the comment now appears on
six lines - they're double-spaced, because that's what HTML does with paragraph tags. In
Tiger, it's even more fun. As a thumbnail caption, it appears as a single line. As a slide caption, it appears on six lines. (A side note: in
Tiger, I can't figure out how to force the comment to appear on three lines when used as a thumbnail caption. To me, that's also a bug.)
And it's a trap door - the skin can't tell
who has inserted the extra HTML tags, the user or the editor. And the only way to back out the extra tags is to edit the comment manually, in the regular jAlbum edit mode, and laboriously delete each unwanted tag.
Summary: this new editor makes a bad situation even worse.
ETA: In
Tiger, you can cure the problem by telling the skin to "preformat" the text. But after all these years, I still don't know what "preformat" means. There's HTML, and there's not HTML. This option seems to be converting
some HTML to some
other HTML.
