Merge pull request #3003 from bitzesty/textarea

Ensure all non-breaking spaces and any other types of whitespace are replaced with regular spaces before performing .split on textarea wordcount
bitzesty · Jul 16, 2024 · a6d9bbb · a6d9bbb
2 parents 55f8649 + 2daf1fa
commit a6d9bbb
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diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/frontend/form-validation.js.coffee b/app/assets/javascripts/frontend/form-validation.js.coffee
@@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ window.FormValidation =
   validateWordLimit: (question) ->
     textarea = question.find("textarea")
     wordLimit = textarea.attr("data-word-max")
-    normalizedContent = textarea.val().replace(/&nbsp;/g, ' ').replace(/\n/g, ' ');
+    textareaValue = textarea.val() || '';
+    normalizedContent = textareaValue.replace(/(&nbsp;|\n|\s)+/g, ' ').trim();
     wordCount = normalizedContent.split(" ").length
     if wordCount > wordLimit
       @logThis(question, "validateWordLimit", "Word limit exceeded")