Redactor 2 Bugfix
by Ian Ebden
Anyone that knows me knows that I’m currently completely in love with Craft CMS. My clients are too. It has all the flexibility that I need, and a smooth UX. Lately however, some clients have complained about odd formatting from ‘Rich Text’ fields brought about by the insertion of random non-breaking spaces. To be clear this isn’t a Craft bug, but a bug of the Redactor 2 WYSIWYG plugin used for Rich Text fields in Craft and many other CMS’s.
A fix is on the way, but in the meantime here’s a workaround I use in my templates using Twig’s replace filter:
This will replace any offending non-breaking spaces with regular spaces, preserving normal formatting/rendering and semantics. It’s safe enough to leave in your templates, post any Redactor 2 fixes; and probably a good idea to use anyway in most instances because oftentimes content managers paste in content from programs like MS Word, which are guilty of sneaking in odd hidden characters.
Thanks for reading