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title: "Breaking: #72837 - RTE transformations: Allow div sections by default and remove font-specific parsing"
manual: "TYPO3 Core Changelog"
version: "main"
permalink: "https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/changelog:breaking-72837"
source: "Changelog/8.0/Breaking-72837-RTETransformationsAllowDivSectionsByDefaultAndRemoveFont-specificParsing.rst"
modified: "2026-09-15T10:46:36+00:00"
---

# Breaking: #72837 - RTE transformations: Allow div sections by default and remove font-specific parsing

See [forge#72837](https://forge.typo3.org/issues/72837)

## Description

The TSconfig `RTE.default.proc` options `preserveDIVSections` and `allowedFontColors` for transforming data between the Rich
Text Editor and the database have been removed.

The `preserveDIVSections` option is now built-in by default "always on", and DIV tags are always treated as block elements.

Special handling for `<font>` tags is done via the regular tag processing options like any other tag.

## Impact

Setting the TSconfig option `RTE.default.proc.preserveDIVSections = 0` or `RTE.default.proc.allowedFontColors` will have no effect anymore.

## Affected Installations

Any installation using custom TSconfig configurations for the RTE and using `RTE.default.proc.preserveDIVSections` set to 0 or  `RTE.default.proc.allowedFontColors` to any value.

## Migration

If DIV HTML elements should not treated like block elements, the RTE option `RTE.proc.blockElementList` can be manually
customized to not include DIV elements.

If the option `allowedFontColors` is still needed, the existing functionality can be achieved by using the `keepTags` functionality to sort out correct values for a property.