When ever I use tables with fckeditor within EE, I get a bunch of white space above the table on preview and submit.  I see what’s happening—something is taking all the line breaks after various table tags and converting them into <br> tags and then dumping the whole lot above the table like so:

<br>
      <br>
        <br>
        <br>
      <br>
      <br>
        <br>

        <br>
      <br>
      <br>
        <br>
        <br>
      <br>
  <br>
<table width=“100%” border=“1” cellpadding=“1” cellspacing=“1”>
<tbody>
<tr>

<td>This</td>
<td>is</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>another</td>
<td>test</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>of</td>
<td>tables..</td>
</tr>

</tbody>
</table>

This happens whether I’m hand-coding the Table, or using fckeditor table button.  You can’t see in this example but the <br>s are indented to match the table tags.  Help?

With rich text editing extensions, you need to have a formatting type of “None” for the custom field.  It sounds like you have something else selected?  The line breaks aren’t from EE’s Auto-XHTML, as they would be <br /> not <br>, but unless this output is coming from FCKEditor, it would be from a formatting selection for the custom field.

Yes, that’s got it.  Thanks.

Groovy!