Skip to content

Memory leak when enter text using the fromTextArea #6409

@RyuDoizaki

Description

@RyuDoizaki

Entering text using fromTextArea seems to cause a memory leak.

I checked this in Chrome.

Video showing the memory leak.

memory_leak

Source Code.

<html>
    <head>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="./codemirror-5.57.0/lib/codemirror.css">
        <script src="./codemirror-5.57.0/lib/codemirror.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <textarea id="targetTextarea" cols="30" rows="10"></textarea>
        <br><br><div id="add">codemirror add</div>
        <br><div id="remove">codemirror remove</div>
        <script>
            let codemirror = undefined;
            let targetTextareaEl = undefined;
            let addEl = undefined;
            let removeEl = undefined;
            window.onload = function(){
                targetTextareaEl = document.querySelector('#targetTextarea');
                addEl = document.querySelector('#add');
                removeEl = document.querySelector('#remove');

                addEl.addEventListener('click', () => {
                    if(!codemirror) {
                        codemirror = CodeMirror.fromTextArea(targetTextareaEl);
                    }
                });
                removeEl.addEventListener('click', () => {
                    if(codemirror){
                        codemirror.toTextArea();
                    }
                    codemirror = undefined;
                });
            }
        </script>
    </body>
</html>

Adding characters by paste or deleting characters by delete key did not leak the memory

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    No labels
    No labels

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions