CKEditor unwanted characters

Question

How can I disable CKEditor to get me every time  , when i don\'t want them? I\'m using CKEditor with jQuery adapter.

I don\'t want to have any

Answer 1

After some research I might shed some light on this issue - unfortunately there is no out-of-the-box solution.

In the CKEditor there are four ways a no-break space can occur (anybody know more?):

1. Automatic filling of empty blocks. This can be disabled in the config:

   config.fillEmptyBlocks = false;
   

2. Automatic insertion when pressing TAB-key. This can be disabled in the config:

   config.tabSpaces = 0;
   

3. Converting double spaces to SPACE+NBSP. This is a browser behavior and will thus not be fixed by the CKEditor team. It could be fixed serverside or by a clientside javascript onunload. Maybe this php is a start:

   preg_replace('/\s \s/ig', ' ', $text);
   

4. By copy & paste. If you paste a UTF-8 no-break space or double-spaces CKEditor will convert it automatically. The only solution I see here is doing a regex as above. config.forcePasteAsPlainText = true; doesn't help.

Summary: To get rid of all no-break spaces you need to write an additional function that cleans user input.

Comments and further suggestions are greatly appreciated! (I'm using ckeditor 3.6.4)

Answer 2

in config.js:

CKEDITOR.editorConfig = function( config ) {
  config.enterMode = CKEDITOR.ENTER_BR; // <p></p> to <br />
  config.entities = false;
  config.basicEntities = false;
};

It work for me, after you can print text with php: html_entity_decode( $someText );

Answer 3

This is a bad solution

config.basicEntities = false;

• Because it does not allow you to insert the JS code in the form as text. Like that <script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/redactor/ckeditor/ckeditor.js"></script>
• In addition, empty blocks like <p>&nbsp;</p> сan not specify an indent in the text since the character   will be deleted (config.fillEmptyBlocks = true;)

This is the right solution

$text = preg_replace("#([^>]) #ui", "$1 ", $text);

• This is a PHP function that replaces all the characters   on a space, except those that are inside the tag like <p>&nbsp;</p>
• The function code is not the most elegant, you can suggest your own version.

Answer 4

Add this to your config.js

config.enterMode = CKEDITOR.ENTER_BR,