Bug: Clicking Save Page With Empty Title Makes "< Back" Button Useless #2311

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OVERLORD · 2026-02-05T03:37:53+03:00

OVERLORD commented

2026-02-05 03:37:53 +03:00

Originally created by @ReaHe on GitHub (Jul 1, 2021).

Describe the bug
If you set your title to be empty when you click save on a page, Bookstack prevents this and causes the back ("< Back") button to no longer work as intended. It will instead continue to bring you back to the current page your editing.
P.S. It personally seems as if when you hit save and the error "the name field is required" (when the title is empy), instead of just printing an immediate error, the entire page is updated with the error. Therefore the previous page reference is updated to before the error occurred which is when you clicked "edit page" instead of not updating the previous page reference at all and keeping it to before you clicked "edit page".

Steps To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Create a page
Edit the newly created page
Remove title and hit save
Click "< Back"
You can no longer go back to the previous menu with the "< Back" button anymore.

Expected behavior
I would expect the "< Back" button to always bring back to previous menu I was at before hitting "new" or "edit" page.

Your Configuration (please complete the following information):

Exact BookStack Version (Found in settings): BookStack v0.29.3
PHP Version:
PHP 7.3.18 (cli) (built: May 15 2020 16:10:31) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.3.18, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
Hosting Method (Nginx/Apache/Docker): Docker

Additional context
I came upon this problem in the hopes that when removing the title and leaving the content empty the page instead would be deleted (if it was pre-existing). To me this is a low priority bug that no one would realistically do this and I'm just documenting the existence.

Originally created by @ReaHe on GitHub (Jul 1, 2021). **Describe the bug** If you set your title to be empty when you click save on a page, Bookstack prevents this and causes the back ("< Back") button to no longer work as intended. It will instead continue to bring you back to the current page your editing. P.S. It personally seems as if when you hit save and the error "the name field is required" (when the title is empy), instead of just printing an immediate error, the entire page is updated with the error. Therefore the previous page reference is updated to before the error occurred which is when you clicked "edit page" instead of not updating the previous page reference at all and keeping it to before you clicked "edit page". **Steps To Reproduce** Steps to reproduce the behavior: 1. Create a page 2. Edit the newly created page 3. Remove title and hit save 4. Click "< Back" 5. You can no longer go back to the previous menu with the "< Back" button anymore. **Expected behavior** I would expect the "< Back" button to always bring back to previous menu I was at before hitting "new" or "edit" page. **Your Configuration (please complete the following information):** - Exact BookStack Version (Found in settings): BookStack v0.29.3 - PHP Version: PHP 7.3.18 (cli) (built: May 15 2020 16:10:31) ( NTS ) Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group Zend Engine v3.3.18, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies - Hosting Method (Nginx/Apache/Docker): Docker **Additional context** I came upon this problem in the hopes that when removing the title and leaving the content empty the page instead would be deleted (if it was pre-existing). To me this is a low priority bug that no one would realistically do this and I'm just documenting the existence.

OVERLORD added the 🐛 Bug 🏭 Back-End labels 2026-02-05 03:37:53 +03:00

OVERLORD closed this issue

2026-02-05 03:37:55 +03:00

OVERLORD commented

2026-02-05 03:37:58 +03:00

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Nov 15, 2021):

Thanks for reporting @ReaHe with the detailed steps and explanation. This has now been addressed as part of b546098b36 and will be part of the next feature release.

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Nov 15, 2021): Thanks for reporting @ReaHe with the detailed steps and explanation. This has now been addressed as part of b546098b365b611b34c004e120c543efb9311d2e and will be part of the next feature release.

OVERLORD referenced this issue

2026-02-05 10:21:45 +03:00

[PR #2311] [CLOSED] added custom page header and page count footers to export #5979

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Reference: starred/BookStack#2311