CKEditor does not work in my IE?

Anyone get this working correctly for the define pages editor?, From my brief read and the fact it seems to be fixable by setting IE to "compatibility view", people are/were saying its to do with the doc type being html rather than xhtml in admin, does that make sense.

I have it working using a hack, so you can try this at your own risk

in your favourite text editor open

admin/define_pages_editor.php

Find line 98 where it says

and change it to

and that seems to fix it for me, as usual there are no guarantees this will work for you, but it does for me

Edit----------------------------
If there is a better solution i would love to hear it,

Not sure if this helps, but yesterday someone told me all they had to do to get it working in IE was update the /editors/ckeditor files to a newer version ... in their case they used 4.1.2 ..... which I think is what's in the bundled version in the plugins area.
They said they were using version 3.something and IE was broken, but then they updated it to 4.1.2 and IE was working.
They were editing ez-pages, not define pages, but there's not much difference in how those pages are built in the admin, so both are probably affected similarly.

Hi Dr Byte

I had actually tried updating to the latest version first and still got the same issue, thats why I did the little hack i did.

Although if it is working for others (updating that is), then that would be the best option.

I take that back, just tried it out again and It seems to be working perfectly without the hack,

Thats weird because I updated ckEditor yesterday logged out cleard the browser cache, logged back in and it was still not working correctly.

Blasted web gremlins.

So, yep updating to the latest version from the ckEditor site fixes the issue. not hack needed.

nigelt74:

I have it working using a hack, so you can try this at your own risk

in your favourite text editor open

admin/define_pages_editor.php

Find line 98 where it says

<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

and change it to

<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

and that seems to fix it for me, as usual there are no guarantees this will work for you, but it does for me

Edit----------------------------
If there is a better solution i would love to hear it,

it does work. thanks.

for ie 10, it works too in Compatibility Modes without any hack.

win7 + IE10 + Zen Cart 1.51 + ckeditor 4.2 revision f74e558

Hello All,
I have the "almost" same problem and think that ins't a IE bug.
I tested in IE, Firefox and CRHOME and the same problem happen in all browsers.
I Have English, Spanish and Portuguese idioms in my store.
For the third (Portuguese) just shows the icons (tools) but the rest of the box is gray. No text, no white space for editing.
Any Idea?

Ya: upload the portuguese language files for ckeditor. This is explained in the readme.html

Solved:
portuguese isn't suported language in the zip
how I solved...
in ckeditor-412-for-zencart\editors\ckeditor\lang
change one of that js to pt.js I change fr.js
edit then and change reference fr=... to pt= CKEDITOR.lang['pt']={"dir":"ltr","editor"...

The BETTER and simpler way is to copy the portuguese language files from the ckeditor website.
This is explained in the readme.html file that comes with the plugin.