[Typo3] Upgrade to 3.8 causes RTE table html to be displayed as text

[Christopher]

Hi,

On 30/06/05, Art Ketcham <typo3.org at arthurk.com> wrote:
> We just update to version 3.8 from 3.7.0, and we noticed that page
> content items which were created in the RTE are not displayed properly
> in the front end web page.
> 
> Our old and new RTE is htmlarea, although they are different versions.
> 
> What happens is that when we have an item in the RTE (previously created
> or new) that has a table in it, all of the table related tags, such as
> table, td, tr, etc. is displayed as raw text on the front end (the html
> is not kept as html).
> 
> When we put this code in as a raw html item, which doesnt use the RTE,
> then everything works fine. So this problem has to do with the RTE and
> the parsing of the html.
> 
> This is rather frustrating, but I'm sure there is a simple fix. I will
> give 5 gmail addresses to whoever solves this problem :p
> 


Sounds like you've got a case of htmlspecialchars() on your hands.
Maybe try setting

RTE.default.proc.htmlSpecialChars = 0

...in page TSconfig [1].

By the way, if it helps, is there a cash option for the prize? ;-p

-Christopher



[1] http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/rtehtmlarea/Configuration-403380ac58/