On Mar 19, 2014, at 10:30 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > That's a matter of interpretation. By "clearing the htmlText" I mean > "resetting it to "<p></p>".
On Mar 19, 2014, at 10:35 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Jacque, > > In the past 15 years I never had any problems with htmlText always containing > p tags, even if the text of the field was empty. Therefore, I think it is no > bug. It seems inconsistent by Livecode conventions, though. I hit it because I was doing a lot of htmlText work and the "null" condition came up so I just tested against the htmlText property instead of the text. When I discovered what was actually in the property I quickly moved on. But, I've been doing this for 20 years and it didn't really slow me down much but wouldn't a beginner be pretty confused by this? Tim _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode