Why is “​” being injected into my HTML?

Question

EDIT: You can see the issue here (look in source).

EDIT2: Interesting, it is not an issue in source. Only with the console (Firebug as well).

I have

Answer 1

I understand that there is a bug in SharePoint 2013 where the HTML editor adds these characters into your content.

I've been dealing with this for a bit and this is the solution I am using which seems to be working. I added this javascript into a file referenced by my masterpage.

var elements = ["h1","h2","h3","h4","p","strong","label","span","a"];
function targetZWS(){
    for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {
      jQuery(elements[i]).each(function() {
        removeZWS(this);
      });
    }
}
function removeZWS(target) {
  jQuery(target).html(jQuery(target).html().replace(/\u200B/g,''));
}

/*load functions*/
$(document).ready(function() {
    _spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push("targetZWS");

});

Links I looked into investigating this:

1. https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/23804eed-8f00-4b07-bc63-7662311a35a4/why-does-sharepoint-put-in-character-code-8203-in-a-richtext-field?forum=sharepointdevelopment

2. https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/e87a82f0-1ab5-4aa7-bb7f-27403a7f46de/finding-8203-unicode-characters-in-my-source-code?forum=sharepointgeneral

3. http://www.sharepointpals.com/post/Removing-8203-in-RichTextHTML-field-Sharepoint