Forum:Glitch replaces whitespaces when editing

Hi. On the Bleach wiki for some time now, we have been experiencing a strange glitch. This glitch replaces normal whitespaces with this string of characters "& n b s p ;" (minus the spaces). I had to add the spaces to it, because it was showing up as a whitespace when I previewed what I just wrote. It typically seems to appear when someone edits a page using the Rich Text editor. Does anyone else have this problem? --Yyp 23:05, October 26, 2009 (UTC)

FYI:  is special HTML code for a "non breaking space" It can be extremely useful to use (especially in tables of numbers) for any situation where white space is wanted with no possibility of a line break at that white space.

Having said that, I am not familiar with the RTE or the glitch described above. --najevi 23:25, October 26, 2009 (UTC)


 * It's a very common bug with the RTE. -- Porter21 (talk) 11:51, October 27, 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes, it's a known issue. The issue is: when users type shift+space, this is what appears, or when users type multiple spaces. We can't remove &amp;nbsp; that already exist, because they are used for some valid design issues. However, I'm still hoping we find a way to resolve it - the shift+space issue is really the heart of the problem. 15:53, October 27, 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your replies. Knowing about the shift+space thing will hopefully help cut down on this issue. And thanks also to 'najevi. I figured it was something to do with coding, but it is good to know what exactly it is. Thanks --Yyp 14:08, October 28, 2009 (UTC)

we've had this trouble for a while now over at fire emblem wiki (I reported it before and someone said they were already working on it), until recently i'd solved the issue by putting that code into the search and removing off all the pages myself, unfortunately that seems to have stopped working now (won't come up with any results in search, even though i know at least two pages have it on them). Does anyone know of a way to find pages with this problem now that search won't do it.

-- Semaj draehs - any replies to my Talk page  17:09, October 30, 2009 (UTC)


 * Download the database dump of your wiki (you have a link at Special:Statistics in your wiki), current pages only, and search there with a text editor. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 18:16, October 30, 2009 (UTC)