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String length in RTE

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Topic: String length in RTE

Posted By: privateguide
Subject: String length in RTE
Date Posted: 09 December 2014 at 9:04pm

Hi there

Im bit rusty when it comes to ASP, havent been coding for years. But I stumbled upon this great editor here and decided to give it a try. Setup was easy and straightforward.

And now Im working on the contents of the editor. Funny thing. If you clear the text (use the Reset button) and submit is stringlength is 0 (using Len(string)). I have the receiving page redirect you back to the page containing the form. If you resubmit the form, stringlength is suddenly 4 even though there is nothing in the editor? And I have tried a couple of times and it goes like 4 8 12 16 but there is nothing in the string?

Anyone had this problem and how do you solve it?

Thanks

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 10 December 2014 at 8:56am

A hidden character is placed in to the editor when first loaded to get around a bug in Firefox whereby if there is no content in the editor the cursor is not displayed.

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