Since today's weekly, the JavaScript validation of required form fields thinks some things in atto are empty, when they are not.

It seems that a value with HTML like '<p>x</p>' triggers the 'Required' validation warning in Chrome of Firefox for me.

A value like '<p>x<br></p>' does not.

It can be hard to reproduce this, because browsers do weird things. FOr example, if Atto contains <p>x</p>, with the cursor after the x, then

• If you type y, you get <p>xy</p>
• If you type space, you get <p>x <br></p>

Also, only some changes trigger an event that udpates whether the 'Required warning' appears or disappars. Anyway, these steps to reproduce work for me in Firefox or Chrome:

1. Go to the question bank and Create a new Description.
2. On the form, click in the Question Text box.
3. Expand the toolbar, and click the <> icon.
4. 'You must supply a value here.' validation error appears.
5. Type <p>x</p>.
6. Click <> again.
7. Click just after the x, and type a space.
8. Only now does 'You must supply a value here.' validation error go away.
9. Delete the space.
10. Click <> button.
11. Note that validation message does not appaer yet. Note also that the source is now <p>x<br></p>.
12. Click on another form field, or press Tab, to move focus.
13. Delete the <br>.
14. Click on another form field, or press Tab, to move focus.
15. Now the validation error appears.