Ckeditor removes empty tags

Question

There is a problem with CKEditor when the user inserts empty tags:

(in HTML source mode)

<a href="fds" class="doIt"></a>

When he presses on the source and then back again, the tag 'A' is gone. I made a little research, and I found that this happens since there is a very complicated function in ckeditor.js that checks whether there is a value inside the element. If there's none the CKEditor drops the tag.

Answer 1

I know this is old, but in CKEDITOR 4.x you can do:

CKEDITOR.dtd.$removeEmpty.ElementHere = 0;

Replace ElementHere with whatever tag you want. Like allowing empty i tags for icons:

CKEDITOR.dtd.$removeEmpty.i = 0;