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The Sharepoint Rich HTML editor leaves ZERO WIDTH SPACE chracters (​ or \u200B) all over the place. This trawls through the HTML you pass in and strips out zero width space characters from text nodes within. Potentially a sledgehammer/nut solution...
/*
* The Sharepoint Rich HTML editor leaves ZERO WIDTH SPACE chracters (​
* or \u200B) all over the place. This trawls through the HTML you pass in and
* strips out zero width space characters from text nodes within.
*
* http://blog.bugrapostaci.com/2014/02/02/publishing-field-encoding-extra-questionmark-charecters-actually-acsii-8203-zero-width-space/
*
* This trawls through the HTML you pass in and strips out zero width space
* characters from text nodes within.
*
* $("selector").stripZWSP();
*
* You can optionally pass in an options object to configure what characters
* to find, what to replace them with, whether to show debug messages, etc:
*
* $("selector").stripZWSP({
* "debug": true,
* "replacementChar" : "Z"
* });
*
* Olly Hodgson, 07-Jan-2015.
*/
(function($) {
var methods = {
init: function(options) {
var settings = $.extend({
'replacementRegex' : /\u200B/g, // The characters we want to match
'replacementChar' : '', // The character to replace them with
'includeWhitespaceNodesWhenGettingTextNodes' : true, // Include whitespace nodes when getting text nodes
'debug' : false // Show debug messages. See methods.debugMessage() function
}, options),
inDesignMode = $("#MSOLayout_InDesignMode").val();
/* Return early if we're in edit mode */
if (inDesignMode === "1") {
methods.debugMessage(settings, "In design mode, returning early");
return this;
}
/* Loop through all of the elements passed in */
return this.each(function (i) {
/* Grab all of the text nodes */
var textNodes = methods.getTextNodesIn(this, settings.includeWhitespaceNodesWhenGettingTextNodes),
textNodesLength = textNodes.length,
textNodeContent = '';
methods.debugMessage(settings, "textNodesLength:", textNodesLength);
if (textNodesLength > 0) {
/* Replace settings.replacementRegex with settings.replacementChar in all text nodes */
for (var i = 0; i < textNodesLength; i++) {
textNodeContent = textNodes[i].nodeValue.replace(settings.replacementRegex, settings.replacementChar);
textNodes[i].nodeValue = textNodeContent;
}
}
});
},
/*
* methods.getTextNodesIn(node, includeWhitespaceNodes)
* Returns all of the text nodes which are children
* of a given DOM element.
* Adapted from: http://stackoverflow.com/a/4399718/13019
*
* methods.getTextNodesIn(this[, true|false]);
*/
getTextNodesIn: function(node, includeWhitespaceNodes) {
var textNodes = [], nonWhitespaceMatcher = /\S/;
function getTextNodes(node) {
if (node.nodeType == 3) {
if (includeWhitespaceNodes || nonWhitespaceMatcher.test(node.nodeValue)) {
textNodes.push(node);
}
} else {
for (var i = 0, len = node.childNodes.length; i < len; ++i) {
getTextNodes(node.childNodes[i]);
}
}
}
getTextNodes(node);
return textNodes;
},
/*
* If settings.debug === true, output to the console
* methods.debugMessage(settings, "message", "message" [, etc]);
*/
debugMessage : function(options) {
if (options.debug === true) {
if (window.console && console.info) {
return console.info("stripZWSP:", arguments[1], Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments));
}
}
}
};
$.fn.stripZWSP = function( method ) {
if (methods[method]) {
return methods[method].apply(this, Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 1));
} else if (typeof method === 'object' || ! method) {
return methods.init.apply(this, arguments);
} else {
$.error('Method ' + method + ' does not exist on jQuery.stripZWSP');
}
};
})(jQuery);
jQuery("div[id$='_RichHtmlField']:visible").stripZWSP();
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