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#117490 Strage spontaneous changes to tags

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Latest post by Crazyhorse50 on Monday, 08 December 2025 10:29 GMT

Crazyhorse50

I had a complaint from a user that she was editing an article in the front end and lost all the formatting, it became just a block of text. I thought it was down to inexperienced user error but the same happened to me editing in the backend to fix that article.

Joomla 5.4.2 / JCE 2.9.96

I was fixing the article the user screwed up noting that instead of <p> </p> there were <br />. In the code editor I globally replaced <br /> with <p> <p/> and the text looked almost like it originally did. Back in the editor setting a heading 1 and a couple of heading 2s, good so far. I got to the last line and set it as heading 2 and all the formatting disappeared. In code view all the <p> </p> had been change to <br />. I had done nothing that could have caused that. I went through and fixed it again but this time it stayed fixed. Even if I had accidently pressed undo, which I don’t think I did, i it would not have done that surely. I have fat fingers and sometimes press an adjacent key on the keyboard or two keys together. Are there any keys or combination of keys that could make that change? Or am I just losing it?

https://gyup.org/index.php/dr-sarahs-blog/we-dont-know-what-we-dont-know

Ryan

What are the Text Filter settings for the user's User Group, in Site -> Global Configuration -> Text Filters, eg: Default Blacklist, No HTML, No Filtering?

Ryan Demmer

Lead Developer / CEO / CTO

Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean everybody isn't out to get you.

Crazyhorse50

Registered users, public & guest  - "No HTML" all others "Default forbidden list".  I guess that could have screwed in in the front end for registered users, but in the back end as SU "no filtering"??

Ryan

I guess that could have screwed in in the front end for registered users

Yes, this will remove all tags including <p>

I got to the last line and set it as heading 2 and all the formatting disappeared. In code view all the <p> </p> had been change to <br />. I had done nothing that could have caused that. I went through and fixed it again but this time it stayed fixed. Even if I had accidently pressed undo, which I don’t think I did, i it would not have done that surely. I have fat fingers and sometimes press an adjacent key on the keyboard or two keys together. Are there any keys or combination of keys that could make that change? Or am I just losing it?

Is this reproduceable or was it a one-off?

Ryan Demmer

Lead Developer / CEO / CTO

Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean everybody isn't out to get you.

Crazyhorse50

Ha only ever happend the once! Will get back to you if it ever happens again. Fortunate or would continue to blame the user!!!

Thank for your prompt an dhelpgful response, as always.

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