Hi,

I've searched up and down all over this site and google and have seen a bunch of people with the same issue but no answer still (or answers that don't work).

When you put in an iframe (like google maps), SS will turn the <iframe></iframe> into a <iframe /> tag and it will break the layout.

I know this is SS doing it because looking back at tinyMCE shows the tags as <iframe></iframe>

I read in another post that a solution is to put a space between the tags, so it becomes <iframe> </iframe>, however, if you do that from the HTML editor in tinyMCE, it will strip out the blank space (and anything else you put between the iframe tags) putting me back in the same situation.

ive tried using these 3 settings in mysite/_config.php file but it doesn't fix it

HtmlEditorConfig::get('cms')->setOption('verify_html', 'false');
HtmlEditorConfig::get('cms')->setOption('element_format', 'html');
HtmlEditorConfig::get('cms')->setOption('cleanup', 'false');

I can understand that the editors are trying to be as xhtml compliant as possible but we live in an IE do-your-own-thing dominated world so that's not good enough for now. Is there solution to this?

You need to do something along the lines of this on the server-side, although I haven't had issues with the space being stripped out on the client side myself. Even if it doesn't strip it client side, doing this server-side is a good idea anyway in case you forget, or it's someone else editing content that doesn't know about it.

function onBeforeWrite() {
$this->Content = str_replace("></iframe>", "> </iframe>", $this->Content);
parent::onBeforeWrite();
}

Now that I've actually tried this it doesn't work as expected because the content has already been loaded into the object using domdocument so it's already collapsed the iframe. I've used this regexp instead:

function onBeforeWrite() {
$this->Content = preg_replace('|<iframe(.*)/>|Uims', '<iframe\\1> </iframe>', $this->Content);
parent::onBeforeWrite();
}

Thanks a lot! Silverstripe used to move all html content after an iframe between the opening and closing iframe tags, so everything after an iframe would disappear. Your code fixes that issue.

Cheers!
Anatol

Thanks alot Chris,

This solved my problems of embedding Youtube videos in the editor :-)

This looks like it will be really helpful. But where do you put the onBeforeWrite() function? in mysite/_config.php?

Oh, fixed it. I added it to my Page class in mysite/code/Page.php. See bellow:

<?php
class Page extends SiteTree {

	static $icon = "themes/default/images/icons/page";

	public static $db = array(
	);

	public static $has_one = array(
	);
	
	public function onBeforeWrite() { 
	$this->Content = preg_replace('|<iframe(.*)/>|Uims', '<iframe\\1> </iframe>', $this->Content); 
	parent::onBeforeWrite(); 
	}

}

Any way to keep a class from being stripped as well? I'd like to allow the user to apply Left, LeftAlone, Center classes from the style drop down.

I hope that SS3 fixes these issues. It should be easy to add video to content.

Thanks