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

[Bob Sneidar]

I keep having this niggling feeling that the devs did this for some good reason, and that if empty text didn’t correspond to <p></p> in htmlText, the engine would choke, cough and sputter when it discovered to it’s horror that the htmlText of anything was literally empty.

Either way, I’m still going to sleep well tonight.

Bob


On Mar 19, 2014, at 13:46 , Trevor DeVore <lists at mangomultimedia.com<mailto:lists at mangomultimedia.com>> wrote:

So if I were to put the htmltext of an empty field into an HTML document I
would end up with an object in the DOM that I wouldn't necessarily expect
to be there.

That being said, I don't think the hmltext property is designed to behave
like I am interpreting it and I think I've changed my mind. I just looked
at the styledText and it also returns an array with 1 line, even if there
is no text: