Leading and trailing spaces are not included in getData

[Hussam]

I'm using the latest CKEditor version 3.5 and it seems that leading and trailing spaces are not being correctly reported using the getData() API. Here are the details:

If spaces are entered before or after any character, or only spaces are entered, not all spaces are reported in the data returned by the getData() call. Here is an example: Type a single space ==> getData() returns an empty string "" Type another space ==> getData() still returns an empty string "" Type a 3rd space ==> getData() now returns this string "<p>\n &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>\n"

Also a trailing space that follows any character is not reported. Example: Enter any letter (e.g: w) ==> getData() returns "<p>\n w</p>\n" Now enter a space ==> getData() still returns "<p>\n w</p>\n" Enter another space ==> getData() now returns "<p>\n w&nbsp;</p>\n"

Is this a known issue? I was unable to find anyone else who reported this behaviour.

Thanks.

[Hussam]

BTW, this behavior was seen on IE 8 and Firefox 3.6 on Windows 7 Professional.

[Garry Yao]

Here is an example: Type a single space ==> getData() returns an empty string "" Type another space ==> getData() still returns an empty string "" Type a 3rd space ==> getData() now returns this string "<p>\n &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>\n"

AFAIK it's not a bug, the editor has an ​ignoreEmptyParagraph configuration option that ignores any "blank" paragraph, we can work it around by allow paragraph with one single space.

[Garry Yao]

Patch tackles the secondary case, where editor output trims desired spaces that was created by user (in wysiwyg).

[Jakub Ś]

I was not able to reproduce this problem neither in CKE 3.x nor 4.x