[thelist] ColdFusion and checking HTML

jon steele jjsteele22 at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 25 19:31:08 CDT 2001


Hi,

I'm in quote a dilemma. (not a good way to start off is it :-) )
Hopefully some skilled CFer can help.

I need to check an array full of strings for non-html text. That is, I
want to check to see if the text in the array would show something when
viewed in a browser or not. For example this should pass the
validation:

myarray[1]="<p class=blah style=blah>text</p><span id=blah
style=blah>&nbsp;</span><img src=blah>"

But this should NOT be allowed:

myarray[2]="<p class=blah style=blah>&nbsp;</p><span></span>"

Since when viewed in a browser, the above code would show a blank page.

Is there an easy function which checks this?

If not can someone help me in developing a loop which will check every
instance of ">", then verify that the next character is not "<", the
next 6 characters are not "&nbsp;", but allow it if the next 4
characters are "<img".

Thank you. I tried this but could not get it. I was able to do it in
JavaScript, so there's gotta be a way in ColdFusion.

Jon.

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