format source code

[labby]

Hi there
searched the issues and the docs but couldn't find anything about this:

After inserting my code in the source code window of tinymce and closing the window the html- code-format get lost.
(sorry, but no way tho display here with the "code" button)
Is there any way to prevent this?

[donShakespeare]

If I understand, you are trying to preserve the order of your code that you fed to TinyMCE RTE via the source code plugin.

Bear in mind that TinyMCE is first and foremost a RTE.
Even though it is highly configurable, at the end of the day its engines will dictate how things run.
TinyMCE will re-format and output HTML the way it sees fit, according to all the programming that went into its JavaScript.

Take for example a browser. No matter what broken/unbroken HTML is in your page, the browser will always provide itself with VALID HTML.
If a user made a mistake and entered <b class=example tag>Example Text<b>
The browser would mercilessly transform it to <b class="example" tag>Example Text<b>

To achieve what I think you want, I implemented a switch in my project which flips between TinyMCE and Ace/CodeMirror.
Once I switch, TinyMCE is "destroyed" on that textarea, and Ace/CodeMirror Editor takes over. Then I can continue with my code how I want it.
Of course, if I switch back to TinyMCE, the RTE would then reformat/correct everything.

[labby]

Yes, I know that tinymce is a text editor :-) ( I think you meant RTE as rich text editor?)
But often/sometimes it is neccessary to switch to the source code for example if more than one guy is using the editor within a cms.
And often it helps to switch to source code to find out things going wrong..
Just linked an image https://doc.lepton-cms.org/media/newspics/code.jpg to make clear what I am talking about.

btw: other editors can handle this and I hoped that tinymce could do this too.

[thedrjim]

This issue has been closed due to inactivity. Tiny will soon be working with members of the community to close other old issues on our GitHub repositories.
There are some excellent discussions and reports in the main TinyMCE GitHub repository, but with so many open issues, we cannot monitor them all. Reviewing all of the issues individually would be an enormous task, requiring time that could be better spent developing new features and fixing bugs. Therefore, we are closing issues that have been inactive for over 365 days, with some exceptions.
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[vmato]

This issue is still actual in 2021

[alecpl]

There's a premium plugin https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/plugins/premium/advcode/ So, a chance it will ever be implemented in a free version is really none.