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I'm not sure it's possible to insert code away from the focus without writing a different function to do so specifically (though I'm no javascript expert).

The built-in functions like insertHTML and surroundHTML rely on focus to determine where to insert/what to surround afaik.

A solution may be to have a handler function to check where the focus is when the button is clicked. If it's not in the right area, move the focus. But as I said I'm no javascript guru, so there may be a simpler answer

You could just add some more code in scan.php to check which page is currently using xinha and build the list based on that information (e.g. the referring file is /somedir/editor.php so you can build a list relative to that).

I think Yermo is suggesting that by adding that new value it would then insert any new paragraphs in Xinha as

<p style="[style you entered here]">...</p>

so the above would become

<p style="margin:0;">...</p>

It would of course savetime for the developer as you don't have to set a style in two places, but it's not so good for the maintenance of the site. The point of CSS is to separate style and content, which this doesn't do.

We'll all have to make some trade-off with this - give in and let them use line breaks; set inline styles to hide the fact it's a <p> tag but lose separation of style and content; set styles externally but spend the little bit of extra time to do it in two places. I guess it's down to each webmaster's needs and choice

Paragraphs have margins above and below that create the separation you want rid of, so setting the margin to 0 makes them look like they've just been separated by <br /> tags. If you want to keep a certain amount of spacing, you can always set margin-top and/or margin-bottom to something greater than 0 for p elements.

If you're using the Stylist plugin, you can set the style by including a .css file with the style I gave earlier (as well as any other styling you want).

Alternatively, you can try editing the default CSS as below:

config.pageStyle = 'p { margin:0; } ';

and then applying config to your HTMLArea when you generate it. I'm not sure if the above still works in Xinha, but it did with HTMLArea.
Hope that helps