Users can currently send empty message by pressing Enter in the chat field or pressing the Send Message. To that user, this looks like:

To other users, this looks like:

This can be simply avoided by preventing submission if the value of the field run through trim() has a length of zero, since that indicates the entire message is whitespace or the message is blank.
Users can currently send empty message by pressing Enter in the chat field or pressing the Send Message. To that user, this looks like:
To other users, this looks like:
This can be simply avoided by preventing submission if the value of the field run through
trim()has a length of zero, since that indicates the entire message is whitespace or the message is blank.