Problem with setting htmlText of field to empty in LiveCode 6.6 RC2

[Mark Schonewille]

Richmond,

That's a matter of interpretation. By "clearing the htmlText" I mean 
"resetting it to "<p></p>".


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On 3/19/2014 15:12, Richmond wrote:
> On 19/03/14 16:09, Mark Schonewille wrote:
>> Hi Tim,
>>
>> Why would you want to do this? To make a field empty, just put empty
>> into the field and if you want you can test that it is empty:
>>
>> put empty into fld 1
>> put (fld 1 is empty) --> true
>>
>> This clears the text, the htmlText,
>
> Not exactly: "put empty into fld 1" still leaves "<p><p/>" in the field,
> OR, at least when one does something like this:
>
> put the htmlText of fld 1 into fld 2
>
> one ends up with "<p><p/>" in fld 2.
>
> Richmond.
>