Hi! We often notice thst content manager leave empty p tags at the end of the article content. Is there a way to remove thoe empty p tags when the article is saved? So only the empty p tages at the end. Not when they are somewhere in between.

We could do this with some frontend scripting but I think I would prefer to remove them before saving them to the database.

Hii Ryan! I tried that but nothing seems to happen.

There was no folder called js (in media/jce) so I crerated one. Added the editor.js file with the code to it.

We are on Joomla 4,1.5 / PHP 8.0.21
JCE is up to date.

What is the intended function of this script? To remove all empty p tags on save so they are removed before the content is placed in the database? When saving it in the backend? Or is it a script to remove the p tags on the frontend?

When a new p tag is created in the editor it does contain a non-breaking space. Would that influence this script?

Would this only delete the last p tag found or also maybe 3 or 4 empty p tags at the end? Like this:
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>

Hi Ryan, thanks. It's working now. Great. Is there a way to alter the script so it will remove all empty tags at the end of the article? So even when there are two or three or even more? It can be done on the frontend with this jQuery script:

jQuery(".com-content-article__body").each(function() {
    jQuery(jQuery("p", this).get().reverse()).each(function() {
      if (jQuery.trim(jQuery(this).text()).length === 0) {
        jQuery(this).remove();
      } else {
        return false;
      }
    });
  });

It uses 'each' and then 'reverses' the found p tags to remove them at the end and work it's way back untill the first non-empty p is reached. Not sure how to 'translate;' this to the function.js file...

Hi Ryan!

1) Removing multiple empty p tags at the end of the content works great now.

2) When I put place multiple empty p tags somewhere in the middle of the content (like 3 of 4 empty p tags between p tags WITH cntent) this script reduces those multiple p tags to just one empty p tag, Is that what you intended? It think just deleting empty p tags ONLY at the end of the content will be fine. Because those are not very visible tot the user. When a user intentionally add some empty line in between (non-empty) paragraphs they should remain there?

I thin may using 'break' in stead of 'continue' (line 24) might do the trick?

Thanks Ryan. We can use this on our sites like this.

Would you consider adding an option in the JCE settinfs for this? So we (and other users) don't need to add the file maunally but can just select if they want this option turned on or not? Maybe in the JCE profile?

But again, this works for us ;-) So thanks for taking the time to help out with this!