Empty text fields submitted with BR

Hi,

I currently doing my 1st ever implementation of CK Editior 3.2 on a Linux Host and a MySQL database and everything is working fine expect when an empty text field is posted from a form it ends up with a <br /> in the db.

This is a problem as I need to be able to check if text fields are empty (or not) for display purposes on web pages.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Eoin

Wed, 03/24/2010 - 11:24

jay jennings

Joined: 24/03/2010

Posts: 1

Re: Empty text fields submitted with BR

I saw another thread that said it's a bug in Firefox only. The workaround was to insert <p></p> into the textarea first, but I haven't tried that yet. I will be playing around with that because the bug is really an annoyance.

Jay Jennings

PS - Just played with this and yes, inserting the P tags in the textarea worked for me -- except that I have multiple editors behind a tabbed control, and when I tab from one to the other it then inserts the BR tag. Bah!

Wed, 03/24/2010 - 11:42

webdesignkilkenny

Joined: 21/03/2010

Posts: 4

Re: Empty text fields submitted with BR

Hi Jay,

I haven't checked if it's a Firefox only issue but I ended up writing a bit of code to check if the textarea field only contained a "<br />" and if so then remove it leaving me with a empty field in the db which is what I wanted.

Thanks

Eoin