[Text Entry] Strip whitespace from beginning of search

[Mikee]

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

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Problem statement:

When searching for a subject or person, having a space character at the start of the field for a single-word search causes the search to not find anything

Proposed solution:

Strip whitespace from the beginning of the search (and other places where it's not useful) before form submission. something like the following validation - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24282158/how-to-remove-the-white-space-at-the-start-of-the-strin... NB this should not be done in all fields, as whitespace can be useful for text formatting (ie in code submissions)

User role(s):

admin,instructor,student

[Mikee]

 Without space at the beginning of the field. I don't need to self-validate for this in any other platform I can think of.

 With space at the beginning of the field - I had received a request from a teacher in this subject for assistance, and had difficulty locating the subject for no apparent reason...

[KristinL]

  Comments from Instructure

For more information, please read through the Canvas Deploy Notes (2023-01-18). 

[KristinL]

Comments from Instructure

For more information, please read through the Canvas Deploy Notes (2023-01-18)