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Rich text editor (rtehtmlarea) in TYPO3 7.6 is not showing content


The rich text editor in TYPO3 7.6, called rtehtmlarea, is not displaying the content that is saved there and is instead showing this...

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html><head></head><body></body></html>

Here's an image of what it looks like...

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This issue is effecting all recent versions of Chrome/Safari/Edge/Opera, only Firefox is showing the content.

This is a legacy website and the client doesn't have money to upgrade at the moment. Is there a workaround?


Solution

  • There are various fixes (you can see them here https://github.com/FriendsOfTYPO3/rtehtmlarea/commits/master) that fix issues related to Chrome / IE.

    As TYPO3 v7 is out of support (even the Extended LTS Support), the way I solved it was to patch the files