<> is introduced at the beginning editor.getHtml()
I whittled the json down a quite a bit, and noticed there is some possibly invalid JSON being generated as output? Its like the introduction of the escaped double quotes is off slightly. JSON.stringify and JSON.parse don't seem to care about it, but theres something going on.
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GrapesJS version[X] I confirm to use the latest version of GrapesJSWhat browser are you using? Chrome Version 121.0.6167.185 (Official Build) (64-bit)Reproducible demo link https://jsfiddle.net/ja50kzne/4/Describe the bug How to reproduce the bug?I had a webpage from a previous version of grapesJS that loads into grapes correctly. You can see this in the fiddle. The latest version of GrapesJS "created" the JSON seen in the fiddle. I did not manipulate it.Notice that grapesJS does load, no errors in the console. When performing editor.getHtml (for db storage), I see that there is an empty elem...
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I whittled the json down a quite a bit, and noticed there is some possibly invalid JSON being generated as output? Its like the introduction of the escaped double quotes is off slightly. JSON.stringify and JSON.parse don't seem to care about it, but theres something going on.
The root component of the page should be a wrapper, in your case is a textnode (eg. this might break a lot of stuff), with an empty tagName (the reason behind <>) and for some reason content: "undefined"(?) <img width="377" alt="Screenshot 2024-02-22 at 00 44 33" src="https://github.com/GrapesJS/gr...
This is what was coming out of Grapes 0.18.4, therefor it was generated by grapes. I would expect if content was "undefined", grapes would either strip it or ignore it. For now i'm just stripping the <> out on my end, but I thought I'd just share it with you.
The issue you're encountering with <> being prepended to your HTML output from editor.getHtml() is due to an invalid component definition in the JSON data you are loading into GrapesJS. Specifically, your components array contains an empty string "" as its first element. Root Cause: GrapesJS expect...
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