NotFoundError: Failed to execute 'insertNode' on 'Range': The node provided is null

[chandrewz]

When inserting a space:

$rich_textarea.rich_textarea('insertObject', ' ');

an error is thrown.

[chandrewz]

Hi Yermo, this is a bump since you were on vacation. This is kind of odd, but rich_textarea does not like spaces.

[Yermo]

The intent of insertObject() was to insert a block of HTML to represent some "thing" you want to embed in the text such as an image, a description of a link, etc. It's not intended to insert a single blank space.

Do you just want to insert a space at some location?

[chandrewz]

I was trying to reconstruct a rich textarea based on plaintext. So I parsed '[o=object1] [o=object2]', needing to use insertObject on object 1, followed by a space, then insertObject on object2.

I also noticed that you can insert text (e.g. 'This is an object: '). If the last character is a space, it gets dropped. Only if the last character is a space.

[chandrewz]

But actually, I brought up this issue about 2-3 weeks ago. Since then, I ended up inserting & nbsp; instead of a whitespace, which allows that as an insert in the single case.

And I started appending &npsp ; to make up for the missing last space.

These are workarounds and if you want handle some edge cases. Still really appreciate your plugin!

[Yermo]

Encase your objects in some tag. I didn't anticipate plain text for insertObject().

e.g. This is an object

On 06/27/2014 01:55 PM, Andrew Chan wrote:

I was trying to reconstruct a rich textarea based on plaintext. So I parsed '[o=object1] [o=object2]', needing to use insertObject on object 1, followed by a space, then insertObject on object2.

I also noticed that you can insert text (e.g. 'This is an object: '). If the last character is a space, it gets dropped. Only if the last character is a space.

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[chandrewz]

Ah, I see. I thought it was an insert for plaintext OR objects.

[Yermo]

You can just insert a DOM text node for that or I could add a separate convenience method for that.