[thesite] [Fwd: [A] [bug]Mail Alert! - Mon Aug 20 1933441789]

[Michele Foster]

Guys,

I think the problem is that the user was trying to get the code that he had
written to display, not to be processed.

i.e. <code><hr><br /></code>

Should show up on the screen as <hr><br />

Not as a horizontal line and a line break, as is happening (in both NS and
IE).

This is the text from one of the comments:

<quote>
Off the top of my head, I believe that the best way to handle "empty" tags
like <code><br></code> and <code><hr></code> is to use the "space-slash" or:
<code><br /></code>
Just insert the space before the slash and older browsers will treat the /
as an unknown attribute of the element...and will just ignore it, but your
code will still validate and/or be "well-formed". Hope this helps...
</quote>


I just dropped this into an article on teo:
http://test.evolt.org/article/view/18/9279/index.html#comment14513

<quote>
<p>Test comment</p>

<p>Off the top of my head, I believe that the best way to handle "empty"
tags like <code><br></code> and <code><hr></code> is to use the
"space-slash" or: <code><br /></code>
Just insert the space before the slash and older browsers will treat the /
as an unknown attribute of the element...and will just ignore it, but your
code will still validate and/or be "well-formed". Hope this helps...</p>
</quote>

And despite what was reported in the bug report, it does NOT display
correctly on the preview screen (at least not in IE).

Looks like <code> is being completely ignored.

Anyway, just a bit more info.  HTH,

Michele


----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel J. Cody" <djc at starkmedia.com>


| hmm.. that could be josh.. i was thinking it may be jeff's tag stripper,
| but this could be a solution too. i'm gonna plug around with it on t.e.o
| for a bit
|
| thanks for the heads up :)
|
| Joshua Olson wrote:
| > Is Internet Explorer converting the entities in hidden fields when it
| > submits the preview page back for finalization??!  I am 95% certain
without
| > even looking at the code that nothing in the back end converts from
entities
| > to the original character, so it must be the browser!  Yuck yuck.  I
added
| > a:
| >
| > &amp;lt;hr&amp;gt;
| >
| > comment to the article and it worked out like I'd've expected.
| >
| > yuck.
| >
| > -joshua