Messages: Body shows "</div></fieldset>"

[MaiklT]

Description of bug

When composing a message to another user, either by clicking on "Send message" from the user's profile/Activity Feed or from the Member Directory module, the message text body is filled with "</div></fieldset>".

Steps to reproduce

List the precise steps to reproduce the bug:

1. Go to another user's Activity Feed
2. Click on 'Send message'
3. See the text body

Expected behavior

An empty text box

Screenshots

Additional context

After some investigation, I found that the form is generated by a JavaScript (\Resources\Shared\components\ComposeMessage\ComposeMessage.js).

Changing the line (line number 18) that generates the textbox from

html += "[...]<textarea rows='2' cols='20' id='bodytext' name='bodytext'/></div>";

to

html += "[...]<textarea rows='2' cols='20' id='bodytext' name='bodytext'></textarea></div>";

solves the problem.

But this works only when "Enable Composite Files" (Settings >> Servers >> Server Settings >> Performance) is off. Switching it back to "on" again brings back the mess.

Affected version

• 10.00.00 alpha build (in development)
• 09.06.01 latest supported release
• 09.06.00

Affected browser

• Chrome
• Firefox
• [?] Safari
• Internet Explorer 11
• [?] Microsoft Edge (Classic)
• Microsoft Edge Chromium

[bdukes]

This looks like an issue coming from the jQuery 3.5 upgrade (in DNN 9.6.x). I think your fix is correct. I would guess the issue with composite files is related to caching (it didn't pick up your change), rather than the fix being incorrect or incomplete. Would you be willing to submit a PR with that change?

[MaiklT]

Brian,
I tried to restart the app pool, but that did not help (with the composite files), and of course the browser cache as well. So I don't know if it has something to do with caching...
Sure, I'll try to make a pull request...

[bdukes]

I sometimes have to update the Client Dependency Version, and then Clear Cache (and maybe Ctrl+F5 after that)