insertHtml and trailing space

I'm using insertHtml to populate the editor with images from a gallery software. It would be tremendously helpful if I could force a trailing space and/or linebreak after each image, since people use it to insert several images at once.

Is it somehow possible to do that? At the moment, I have the problem that " " gets trimmed and " " is parsed to "&nbsp&nbsp" in WYSIWYG (a non-breaking space would be not my preferred choice for obvious reasons).

Thank you for your thoughts.

Thu, 05/05/2011 - 11:36

typeof

Joined: 24/04/2011

Posts: 99

Re: insertHtml and trailing space

Could you describe your case in more details? I did some tests and I see that CKEditor removes the space only when I switch to source view and the space is removed only when it is the last character in the document. So you shouldn't have problems with spaces between images

Also I had no problems using   in insertHtml

Thu, 05/05/2011 - 15:09

cellarius

Joined: 05/05/2011

Posts: 3

Re: insertHtml and trailing space

Thanks for your help!

I use this to insert code into the editor; it works for both Wysisyg and code mode:

var codebb = '[img]path_to_image[/img] ';
window.opener.vB_Editor['vB_Editor_001'].editor.insertHtml( codebb );

Note the space at the end of my example code? It gets trimmed as soon as the code is injected. There has to be some processing going on, since the code is immediately changed into the image (which is what I want).

Thu, 05/05/2011 - 20:42

typeof

Joined: 24/04/2011

Posts: 99

Re: insertHtml and trailing space

And what happens if you do

var codebb = '[img]path_to_image[/img] ';
window.opener.vB_Editor['vB_Editor_001'].editor.insertHtml( codebb );
window.opener.vB_Editor['vB_Editor_001'].editor.insertHtml( codebb );

Is the space between images preserved?

Fri, 05/06/2011 - 07:16

cellarius

Joined: 05/05/2011

Posts: 3

Re: insertHtml and trailing space

No, it is not. I also tried

var codebb = '[img]path_to_image[/img] ';
window.opener.vB_Editor['vB_Editor_001'].editor.insertHtml( codebb );
window.opener.vB_Editor['vB_Editor_001'].editor.insertHtml( ' ');
window.opener.vB_Editor['vB_Editor_001'].editor.insertHtml( codebb );

Which does not preserve the space inbetween either.

Then I tried

var codebb = '[img]path_to_image[/img] ';
window.opener.vB_Editor['vB_Editor_001'].editor.insertHtml( codebb + ' ' + codebb );

This way the space in the middle is preserved. That's what makes me think that the trailing space gets trimmed when fireing insertHtml. The same is true, btw, for leading space.

Mon, 05/09/2011 - 11:09

typeof

Joined: 24/04/2011

Posts: 99

Re: insertHtml and trailing space

Walking through bug reports I've found this http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/6876
Maybe editor.insertText(' '); will work for you?