Artisteer Generated Theme Editing Issues with Internet Explorer

[webscape]

I just rolled out a new web design for our website and I did it via Artisteer.  I placed the snippet tags for our web editors to edit and things seem to be working perfectly fine.  I am using Firefox and failed to test the editing of the new pages in Internet Explorer.  Now I've been getting complaints from my editors (of which the majority of them are using Internet Explorer) that they were having problems with editing their pages.  Some complaints are:  1.  I can't left, or right, or center justify.  2. I can't add multiple spaces between paragraphs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[admin]

Are you able to recreate the problems they are seeing?

[webscape]

Hi!  IT's me again.  I'm still having the same issue.
Also, if I hit "enter" to create a blank line,  it only works with Firefox but not IE.

Here are HTML codes to add two blank space lines:

Firefox:
<p>
&nbsp;
</p>
<p>
&nbsp;
</p>

Internet Explorer
<div align="center">
<span><span style="font-size: medium"><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sand"><strong></strong></span></span></span>
</div>
<div align="center">
<span><span style="font-size: medium"><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sand"><strong></strong></span></span></span>
</div>

[webscape]

Well, after playing with it some more.  I found out that if I embed the CSS and take out the Java Scripts, the problem goes away.  Now if I add the java script codes, the issue comes back.  It seems that IE doesn't like anything linked to the HTML document such as linked CSS and Java Script codes. 

Your thoughts????

[admin]

To do a double space you should just need to hit the ENTER key. To do a single space, you should click the SHIFT-ENTER key combination.  The code that is inserted is entirely dependent on the browser you are using.  (The editor simply "asks" the browser for the html code for "enter", and then inserts whatever it is given.

In other words, the SnippetMaster editor uses the HTML engine from the browser you are using...

I hope that makes sense?

[webscape]

IE copies the attributes of the text  e.g.  span style="color: #330066"><span style="font-family......      when you hit enter instead of putting a space e.g. &nbsp.
I know that IE is the web developer's nemesis but most of the editors are using IE. I can't just tell them to switch to FF.

[webscape]

Editing websites in IE and FF may give out different HTML codes but the codes should work on both browsers.  After going through the codes I found out that the problem was actually in the CSS.  Artisteer is a great program for CMS's but if you create a website template and export it as an HTML, be sure to remove CSS styles that references your paragraphs <p>, headers  h1, h2,h3... etc.  You will run into problems as the embeded CSS styles trump Snippetmaster in IE.