Moodle

HTML Editor eating non-breaking spaces

Details

  • Type: Bug Bug
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Deferred
  • Affects Version/s: 2.0
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: HTML Editor
  • Labels:
    None
  • Environment:
    All
  • Affected Branches:
    MOODLE_20_STABLE

Description

I was trying to insert some non-breaking spaces. First of all, the editor doesn't recognize lots of spaces typed as non-breaking spaces. So I edited the html and added spaces. I viewed it in WYSIWYG view, it looked ok, saved it, and it looked ok in regular view. Then when I went to edit the page again, the non-breaking spaces were completely gone.

Issue Links

This issue is duplicated by:
MDL-9228 HTML deletes deletes line breaks and extra spacing in preformatted text Major Closed
MDL-2928 HTML editor eats line breaks in HTML source Minor Closed
MDL-3043 HTML editor swallows some spaces Minor Closed
MDL-9456 Editor bugs - <pre> sections lose line breaks when switching between Source and WYSIWYG modes Minor Closed
MDL-28940 The new HTML text editor in Moodle 1.9.13 deletes newline breaks and blank lines. Minor Closed

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Martin Dougiamas added a comment -

From Grigory Rubtsov (grb at sentence.ru) Tuesday, 28 February 2006, 08:36 PM:

The issue is still relevant

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Martin Dougiamas added a comment - From Grigory Rubtsov (grb at sentence.ru) Tuesday, 28 February 2006, 08:36 PM: The issue is still relevant
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Alan Trick added a comment -

Has this been abandoned?

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Alan Trick added a comment - Has this been abandoned?
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Mathieu Petit-Clair added a comment -

I need more precisions on this one.

This is marked as a bug for 2.0, which uses TinyMCE and it works as expected in this setup.

Somehow, this is one of two problems (or maybe both) - the editor doesn't seem to include a real " " when clicking on the "non-breaking space" button .. and Moodle seems to have a filter that removes many spaces, using only one instead.

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Mathieu Petit-Clair added a comment - I need more precisions on this one. This is marked as a bug for 2.0, which uses TinyMCE and it works as expected in this setup. Somehow, this is one of two problems (or maybe both) - the editor doesn't seem to include a real " " when clicking on the "non-breaking space" button .. and Moodle seems to have a filter that removes many spaces, using only one instead.
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Clark Shah-Nelson added a comment -

This is coming up as an issue for our faculty and students as well, due to the new APA style guidelines, which apparently call for 2 spaces between sentences (ugg, reverting back to the pre-80's...) - and apparently, at least in 1.9.5 - if you put in 2 spaces between sentences, Moodle will overwrite it with 1 space.

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Clark Shah-Nelson added a comment - This is coming up as an issue for our faculty and students as well, due to the new APA style guidelines, which apparently call for 2 spaces between sentences (ugg, reverting back to the pre-80's...) - and apparently, at least in 1.9.5 - if you put in 2 spaces between sentences, Moodle will overwrite it with 1 space.
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Alan Trick added a comment -

Mathieu, the Affects Version value is incorrect. It affects 1.9 and earlier.

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Alan Trick added a comment - Mathieu, the Affects Version value is incorrect. It affects 1.9 and earlier.
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Michael de Raadt added a comment -

I'm tidying up the multitude of HTML editor white-space issues.

This issue is related to the HTML editor distributed with Moodle 1.9 and previous versions, which is a component created by other developers and used in Moodle.

The resolution of this issue was to use the TinyMCE editor, which is used with Moodle 2.0 and later versions. You can use this editor in 1.9 and earlier versions, if you are willing to replace it, but we do not intend to do so as part of the core Moodle distribution.

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Michael de Raadt added a comment - I'm tidying up the multitude of HTML editor white-space issues. This issue is related to the HTML editor distributed with Moodle 1.9 and previous versions, which is a component created by other developers and used in Moodle. The resolution of this issue was to use the TinyMCE editor, which is used with Moodle 2.0 and later versions. You can use this editor in 1.9 and earlier versions, if you are willing to replace it, but we do not intend to do so as part of the core Moodle distribution.
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Michael de Raadt added a comment -

Also, a number of workarounds have been proposed in the linked duplicate issues.

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Michael de Raadt added a comment - Also, a number of workarounds have been proposed in the linked duplicate issues.

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