CKEditor unwanted   characters

Question

How can I disable CKEditor to get me every time  , when i don't want them? I'm using CKEditor with jQuery adapter.

I don't want to have any   tags.

Answer 1

After some research I might shed some light on this issue - unfortunately there is no out-of-the-box solution.

In the CKEditor there are four ways a no-break space can occur (anybody know more?):

1. Automatic filling of empty blocks. This can be disabled in the config:

   config.fillEmptyBlocks = false;
   

2. Automatic insertion when pressing TAB-key. This can be disabled in the config:

   config.tabSpaces = 0;
   

3. Converting double spaces to SPACE+NBSP. This is a browser behavior and will thus not be fixed by the CKEditor team. It could be fixed serverside or by a clientside javascript onunload. Maybe this php is a start:

   preg_replace('/\s \s/ig', ' ', $text);
   

4. By copy & paste. If you paste a UTF-8 no-break space or double-spaces CKEditor will convert it automatically. The only solution I see here is doing a regex as above. config.forcePasteAsPlainText = true; doesn't help.

Summary: To get rid of all no-break spaces you need to write an additional function that cleans user input.

Comments and further suggestions are greatly appreciated! (I'm using ckeditor 3.6.4)