[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #26986: Editor Deletes Empty Spans

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#26986: Editor Deletes Empty Spans
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 Reporter:  GeJay         |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  3.9
Component:  TinyMCE       |     Version:  3.8
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                |     Focuses:
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Comment (by TobiasBg):

 Commit [27083] fixed an issue that resulted in the same problem for `<i>`
 and `<b>` tags. Those are now no longer removed when switching to the
 Visual editor and back.
 I just tested this on WordPress 3.8.1, and empty `<i>` and `<b>` tags are
 not removed their either.
 Therefore, one way to work around this would be to not use `<span>` tags,
 but `<i>` tags (which by the way is what most CSS libraries use for font
 icons), like this:
 {{{
 <i class="icon-user"></i>
 }}}

 Related: #23037, #22477

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