Parser ignores `parser.optionsHtml.keepEmptyTextNodes` option
You've accurately identified a discrepancy in how the keepEmptyTextNodes option is handled in GrapesJS, leading to newlines being stripped from your HTML output. This is indeed a bug related to the parser's configuration and its TypeScript definitions. Root Cause The GrapesJS HTML parser (specifically the ParserHtml m...
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GrapesJS version [x] I confirm to use the latest version of GrapesJS What browser are you using? Chrom v140.0.7307.0 (canary) Reproducible demo link https://jsfiddle.net/y3gr69s4/ Describe the bug How to reproduce the bug? Create editor instance with parser.optionsHtml.keepEmptyTextNodes option set true. Load HTML code that contains newlines between elements. Get HTML code. What is the expected behavior? The resulting HTML code still contains newlines between elements. What is the current behavior? Newlines between elements are stripped from the resulting HTML code. We get the expected result...
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You've accurately identified a discrepancy in how the keepEmptyTextNodes option is handled in GrapesJS, leading to newlines being stripped from your HTML output. This is indeed a bug related to the parser's configuration and its TypeScript definitions. Root Cause The GrapesJS HTML parser (specifica...
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