being added to in REST API message post

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All,&nbsp; I am posting content via the REST API. &nbsp;Lithium is adding a lot of &lt;br/&gt; tags inside a &lt;p&gt; tag to the start of the html that is being posted.Is there something I can do to prevent this on the posting of conent via the REST API?&nbsp;My original html has the following structure minus the content.&nbsp;&lt;table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid #CCC;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: #eee; width: 130px; border: 1px solid #CCC; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; padding: 8px 16px;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;td style="border: 1px solid #CCC; vertical-align: top; padding: 8px 16px;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: #eee; width: 130px; border: 1px solid #CCC; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; padding: 8px 16px;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;td style="border: 1px solid #CCC; vertical-align: top; padding: 8px 16px;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: #eee; width: 130px; border: 1px solid #CCC; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; padding: 8px 16px;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;td style="border: 1px solid #CCC; vertical-align: top; padding: 8px 16px;"&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: #eee; width: 130px; border: 1px solid #CCC; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; padding: 8px 16px;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;td style="border: 1px solid #CCC; vertical-align: top; padding: 8px 16px;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: #eee; width: 130px; border: 1px solid #CCC; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; padding: 8px 16px;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;td style="border: 1px solid #CCC; vertical-align: top; padding: 8px 16px; color: #f00;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;After it is posted with the REST API it has the following structure.&nbsp;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;tablestyle="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid #CCC;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: #eee; width: 130px; border: 1px solid #CCC; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; padding: 8px 16px;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;td style="border: 1px solid #CCC; vertical-align: top; padding: 8px 16px;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: #eee; width: 130px; border: 1px solid #CCC; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; padding: 8px 16px;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;td style="border: 1px solid #CCC; vertical-align: top; padding: 8px 16px;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: #eee; width: 130px; border: 1px solid #CCC; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; padding: 8px 16px;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;td style="border: 1px solid #CCC; vertical-align: top; padding: 8px 16px;"&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: #eee; width: 130px; border: 1px solid #CCC; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; padding: 8px 16px;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;td style="border: 1px solid #CCC; vertical-align: top; padding: 8px 16px;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: #eee; width: 130px; border: 1px solid #CCC; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; padding: 8px 16px;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;td style="border: 1px solid #CCC; vertical-align: top; padding: 8px 16px; color: #f00;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&nbsp;

varungrazitti · Answer

Did you try posting a plain text? This seems to be picked up from a RTE with a lot of formatting attached.

oliviers · Answer

wsurguy&nbsp;I wonder if you don't have any hidden characters / white space at the begining of your document ... Also, what's happening if you copy your text and paste it in your community (without using the API) ?

wsurguy · Answer

Thank you for your replay.&nbsp;This is content that is being migrated into Lithium from another knowledge board product.I am unable to strip out the html formatting and still maintain the proper presentation ofthe content.&nbsp;Wayne&nbsp;

wsurguy · Answer

Hi Olivier,&nbsp; I will double check the content again for anything at the beginning.If I take the content and enter it in the communitiy using the 'insert code'&nbsp;and it works fine. &nbsp;That is what is so odd.&nbsp;Wayne

wsurguy · Answer

Olivier,&nbsp; It appears that any time the REST API encouters a &lt;table in the content it is adding&nbsp;70 or more &lt;br&gt; tags.The source content starts with&nbsp;&lt;table. &nbsp;There are no hidden characters or carriag returns and so on.Additionally 70 or more &lt;br&gt; tags are being added when a &lt;table tag is encountered within another tag such as&nbsp;a &lt;td&gt;.&nbsp;Wayne

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