An optional and empty editor still stores some content

[kevinrenskers]

When I have an optional editor field in my model, for example body = CKEditor5Field(blank=True), then saving the form without filling any content into the text editor still stores <p>&nbsp;</p> as its content. So that means if I then check if there is content (if self.body), this will always say that there is content.

It means I now manually have to trim <p>&nbsp;</p> from the content before making this check, or before storing the content. Why is the editor storing this empty paragraph when no content has been entered?

[goapunk]

Hi @kevinrenskers as far as I remember ckeditor5 always add as empty paragraph, there's no way to prevent that. We could probably add a check somewhere to remove the empty paragraph though.