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Formatting lost on backspace bug.

See original GitHub issue

I’ve noticed some odd behaviour with TinyMCE editors (4.2.5) that seems to be present in the most recent versions and was wondering if this is a bug and/or changeable behaviour.

Basically what I’m seeing is that if I have a line of formatted text and press return (more than once) midway through that sentence and then hit backspace the formatting for that text is lost.

The HTML at each stage looks like thus:

Formatted line:

After 2 carriage returns (as expected):

I am a line    of text. 

Once backspace is hit (with caret at front of last line) it becomes:

I am a line  of text. 

As you can hopefully see all of the formatting was stripped from the “of text.” line and this is not what I’d want to see, what I’d like is for it to look as it would after a single carriage return keeping its formatting ie:

I am a line  of text.

Any insight you have would be appreciated.

Video of the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9AHNo-E4NY

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Created 7 years ago
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Danni-Phantomcommented, Oct 24, 2017

I am working to try and fix #3817 at the moment. I think these issues might be related

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Curi0sitycommented, Jan 30, 2020

As a workaround, I had solved it using the keydown event: ed.on("keydown",function(evt) { if (evt.keyCode == 8 || evt.keyCode == 46) //backspace or delete { var elem = tinyMCE.activeEditor.selection.getNode(); if (elem.textContent.length <= 1) { evt.preventDefault(); evt.stopPropagation(); jQuery(elem).html('&#65279'); // inserting Zero Width No-Break Space return false; } } });

Hope this helps.