Creation of extraneous <p>&nbsp;</p>

This "glitch" makes it nearly impossible to get rid of the "Read more" because the extra <p>&nbsp;</p> is added after the <!--break--> during the SAVE. (I checked the nr table.)

The problem continues even after disabling the FCKEditor (exclude node path) for a specific node and using what is presumably a Drupal plain textbox. Something (Drupal or FCKEditor module) appears to be appending the <p>&nbsp;</p>.

Edit: I'm using... Drupal 6.2, FCKEditor Module 6.x.1.2-1, FCKEditor 2.6

For what it's worth, I had the same problem on a site. However, having an initial empty <p> tag is helpful in that when users start typing, or paste something in, their content is wrapped in the tag - otherwise, they tended to submit text without any wrapped tag.

I guess it would be nice to have the option for 'inital blank paragraph' in the config somewhere, but I'm guessing that would require a change to the editor code itself, and not just the Drupal module, as I'm pretty sure it's FCKeditor inserting those tags (try switching between code/source view and deleting them - they magically reappear!).

The solution I opted for was to scan the text field when the form was submitted (using the submit op in the node_api hook) and strip any empty <p> tags with a regexp. Maybe not the most elegant solution, but it works for me...

Hmm it seems that removing this code from fckeditor.utils.js fixes this issue:

	// -- some hacks for IE
	var oldCheckAndRemovePaddingNode = editorInstance.EditorWindow.parent.FCKDomTools.CheckAndRemovePaddingNode ;

	editorInstance.EditorWindow.parent.FCKDomTools.CheckAndRemovePaddingNode = function( doc, tagName, dontRemove )
	{
		try
		{
			oldCheckAndRemovePaddingNode( doc, tagName, dontRemove ) ;
		}
		catch(e)
		{}
	}

	editorInstance.Events.FireEvent = function( eventName, params )
	{
		try
		{
			return editorInstance.EditorWindow.parent.FCKEvents.prototype.FireEvent.call( this, eventName, params ) ;
		}
		catch(e)
		{}
	}
	// -- some hacks for IE

the sad thing is that I don't remember why I added this code, obviously some time ago something was wrong in IE with some version of FCKeditor... but at this moment removing this code doesn't seem to break anything and it was ugly hack by the way.

So, if there is anyone willing to remove this code and test if it works, please leave here your comments.

Ok... committed. Let's keep fingers crossed that this hack was not needed anymore.

I removed the code and it works great: i edited a node that had <p>&nbsp;</p> thing and when saved it my text didn't have the extra paragraph anymore . I re-edited other time and <p>&nbsp;</p> wasn't in the fckeditor window.
Both with IE and Firefox.
The hack doesn't seem to break anything in drupal.
Thanks!

THANK YOU for the fix wwalc - this was screwing up a bunch of stuff on a site that I've been working on and once I removed that chunk of code and refreshed my cache, all was well.

I just installed the latest version of this module and I'm getting an errant initial field value of   The code to be removed identified above does not currently exist in the js file.

subscribing under #9
the latest version of the module does not contain the code from above, but has the same bug. how could i fix it now?:)

subscribing under #10. I am having the same issue as well with the latest version of fckeditor. I don't know if anyone is using this with Wysiwyg but I am not seeing this when using the module this way.

Hi having the same problem here have you found any solution to this problem.

Try CKEditor.