strip whitespace before and after value

This gets somehow generated when I try to access table element using
jQuery.text() on it

diff --git a/public/edit_table.js b/public/edit_table.js
index 34fa44c..89c202a 100644 (file)
--- a/public/edit_table.js
+++ b/public/edit_table.js
@@ -41,7 +41,11 @@ var cell_click = function(event) {
                , event
                , $(this).text()
        );
-       var content = $(this).text(); // we don't want para markup
+       var content = $(this).text() // we don't want para markup
+               .replace(/^[ \n\r]+/,'')
+               .replace(/[ \n\r]+$/,'')
+       ;
+console.debug( 'content', content );
        var rows = content.split('¶').length * 2 + 1;
        var textarea = $('<textarea rows='+rows+'/>');
        textarea.val( content );