keep html tags in textarea

All the joomla wysiwyg editors trims some html tag, fixes tag incoerences or redundaces trimming out the tags (example: <p><h1></p></h1> , joomla default editor even delete spans without attributes <span>abc</span>)
Basically with joomla it looks there is no chance to tell the editor don't touch the tags at all (even jce).

Ok, now the topic
I don't need editors in this case, but my CB textareas field should keeps the tag structure, no matter the DOM errors, no matter anything.
I tried a plain textarea without editor,
"Forbidden words in user profile edits" setting is empty, but the field still trims all the tags.
Is this the normal behaviour?

The method I found is use "Editor Text Area" field, but disable the editor in joomla general config, but that's cannot be a solution..

Do you absolutely have to use html tags? These editors and maybe joomla itself strip them for a reason. I don't know how to avoid this and wouldn't try to.

You might be able to use nonumber's sourcerer for this: www.nonumber.nl/extensions/sourcerer
But please consider using alternatives, as this might break your site and make you vulnerable to hacking.

heyai wrote: Do you absolutely have to use html tags?

Yes. It's part of my design and the users won't edit those textarea, just the admins will and they know they don't have to touch the html tags.
I would avoid sourcerer, I will take it as last shot (for scripting in component/module I usually prefer Jumi).
Maybe "Authorized input" is the field I have to set properly?
I just need <dl>, <dd>,<div>,<p>,<span>,<strong>,<small>.
nothing else

Even if you use the view source feature for the editor the jQuery for the editor is still fired on form submit. This jQuery is what runs formatting on the editor contents. The only way to turn off the formatting is to edit your editor settings and shut it off. For JCE I'm pretty confident there is a setting to do this and recommend posting on JCE forums regarding this.

This isn't really a CB issue though and CB can't do anything about it; CB simple renders the editor through Joomla API and fires its jQuery as needed. CB does have a filtering functionality, but it's done PHP side and only removes security vulnerable tags (it does not reformat as you're experiencing). However even then you can whitelist such tags if desired.

krileon wrote: However even then you can whitelist such tags if desired.

just for testing or you think it could works?
not sure about the value of that field for settings those tags I post..

Those tags don't need to be whitelisted. Only tags like script and iframe are removed. At any rate the parameter is within CB > Configuration > User Profile. The issue you're experiencing is an issue coming from your editor; CB can't do anything about that.