nicEdit does not detect the 'space' character

Question

i'm having a problem with the nicEdit script. nicEdit is a javascript libray to set the html textareas of a webpage into Rich Text Format fields.

It works fine except that does not detect when i type the 'space' character. I google'd this and I didn't find any clue. I do exactly what is suposed to do to call the js function:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://js.nicedit.com/nicEdit-latest.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">  
    bkLib.onDomLoaded(function() { nicEditors.allTextAreas({maxHeight:75}) });
</script>

Is someone having the same or similar problem, or know how to fix this?

edit: I tested it in Google-Chrome and Internet Explorer and the error persists in both.

Thank you very much for your time! :)

Answer 1

Not solved but guessed the cause of the problem:

I made a simple html document only with a textarea and the javascript invocation of the question and worked fine.

So obviously was not a configuration problem, was some kind of conflict with other javascript libraries i'm using (JQuery and jstree). That is the reason i found nothing on google about it >_<.

My solution was change the nicEdit to jWYSIWYG, a jquery based RTF, and all works fine now.

Answer 2

I had this same problem, and solved it as follows:

Problem: 'space' wasn't registering in nicEdit fields

Track-down: The actual problem was that a jquery ui feature (accordion in this case) had registered the 'keydown' event for the editors parent. This prevents the 'keypress' event from propagating to the editors registered 'keypress' event handler. I didn't dig deep enough to know why it was only the 'space' key that was failing to propagate.

Solution: I removed the 'keydown' event from the editors parent. in my case that required the following snippet:

$(".accBar,.accContent").unbind('keydown');

I hope this is helpful to someone.

Answer 3

Are you using a CSS reset? That was my problem - baseline.reset sets some things, particularly revolving around "white-space: normal" that messed up rich text editors. Primarily on windows only, even - so Firefox on mac will work fine, but Firefox on Windows will not be able to make space characters.

Answer 4

The issue was most likely the jsTree hotkey plugin was intercepting spaces and calling "preventDefault". See the issue here:

https://github.com/vakata/jstree/issues/363

Removing the hotkey plugin or commenting out the space hotkey from jsTree should solve the problem.