guardian/scribe

Browser inconsistency when inserting SPACE char

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#293 opened on Nov 17, 2014

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Description

Using Chromium 34.0.1847.116, clicking to move caret, then entering a SPACE results in " " but moving the caret using arrow keys then entering a SPACE results in " ".

To reproduce: if I go to http://guardian.github.io/scribe/ click after the "H" in "Hello" and type SPACE, I get <p>H&nbsp;ello, World!</p>, but if I then press RIGHT ARROW and type SPACE, I get <p>H&nbsp;e llo, World!</p>

On Firefox 30.0 both result in a " " character being inserted.

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Research direction
Investigate the inconsistent behavior of SPACE character insertion across browsers (Chromium vs Firefox) in the Scribe rich text editor. Focus on how the caret positioning method (click vs arrow keys) affects the resulting HTML entity (&nbsp; vs space). Check the editor's keydown handler and the browser's default behavior for contenteditable elements.
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JavaScriptHTMLContentEditable basics
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