Deleting all text from a text box leaves behind a
tag

Question

I am using Tridion 2011 SP1 and Firefox 16.0.2, Internet Explorer 8, Internet Explorer 9 and Chrome 23.0.1271.95.

When I open a component in any of the browsers and delete all text in the Design view of a rich text field (pressing delete and backspace multiple times) I am left with a variety of tags in the Source view. These vary by browser.

Firefox :  
Chrome :  
IE8 : 
IE9 :

I have checked the list of hot fixes and there is nothing relevant.

Any ideas?

You can remove the `
` using either a custom XSLT filter or an event system. — Frank van Puffelen, Nov 15 '12 at 12:15
@FrankvanPuffelen Is there a reason why the '
' tag is left there in the first place? This seems like a bug. — Kevin Brydon, Nov 15 '12 at 12:25
Are you sure you do not have a custom XSLT? It would be possible to add a br tag in XSLT as well, of course. Can you try this with a brand new rich text field? — Quirijn, Nov 15 '12 at 13:43

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 04 '12 at 15:51

This sounds like a bug which should be submitted to SDL Customer Support. Does the behavior differ with IE, Chrome and FF?

Unless support can provide a hot fix, I think your only option is to filter out the lone BR (as Frank suggested) using the filtering XSLT. The default XSLT filter used when creating a new rich text field has this filtering included as shown below (last <template> node).

<stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <output omit-xml-declaration="yes" method="xml" cdata-section-elements="script"></output>
    <template match="/ | node() | @*">
        <copy>
            <apply-templates select="node() | @*"></apply-templates>
        </copy>
    </template>
    <template match="*[      (self::br or self::p or self::div)     and      normalize-space(translate(., &apos; &apos;, &apos;&apos;)) = &apos;&apos;     and      not(@*)     and      not(processing-instruction())     and      not(comment())     and      not(*[not(self::br) or @* or * or node()])     and      not(following::node()[not(         (self::text() or self::br or self::p or self::div)        and         normalize-space(translate(., &apos; &apos;, &apos;&apos;)) = &apos;&apos;        and         not(@*)        and         not(processing-instruction())        and         not(comment())        and         not(*[not(self::br) or @* or * or node()])       )])     ]">
        <!-- ignore all paragraphs and line-breaks at the end that have nothing but (non-breaking) spaces and line breaks -->
    </template>
    <template match="br[parent::div and not(preceding-sibling::node()) and not(following-sibling::node())]">
        <!-- Chrome generates <div><br/></div>. Renders differently in different browsers. Replace it with a non-breaking space -->
        <text> </text>
    </template>
</stylesheet>

Sorry for the late reply. The behavior is indeed different across browsers. IE8/9 leaves behind `
` tags. Chrome leaves `

`. I'll update when I get round to fixing it properly. — Kevin Brydon, Nov 16 '12 at 22:13
Took a while to get back round to this issue. It turns out that the default XSLT filter for Tridion 2011 removes the erroneous
tags by default. The XSLT I was using was from R5.3 migration. — Kevin Brydon, Dec 04 '12 at 15:41

Deleting all text from a text box leaves behind a tag

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Deleting all text from a text box leaves behind a
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