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HTML tags in text field are not getting displayed properly

nirjari

I have a DCT in which I have text and textarea fields. Textarea is having tinyMCE as editor.

I capture text and image in textarea. I am entering following values in text field
[html]Business Interiors by Fields^FM [/html]

When I see the preview of this DCR, I get following output.
[html]Business Interiors by Fields FM [/html]

I understand that second line will be displayed like as is from tinyMCE textarea, if I dont use HTML format in TinyMCE. But why does it appear like this for the textfield ? Why does it display all tags, instead of superscript form ? I checked source code and it displays as follows.[html]

Business Interiors by FieldsFM

[/html]
Why does CMS convert "<" and ">" tags to "<" and ">" ?

Below is the code from PT that generates this Heading output. Its in XSL on which I have little experience.
[html]

[/html]
How to get rid of this problem ? How to make sure thattext field is displaed in HTML form ?

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Adam Stoller

I have a DCT in which I have text and textarea fields. Textarea is having tinyMCE as editor.

I capture text and image in textarea. I am entering following values in text field
[html]Business Interiors by Fields^FM [/html]

When I see the preview of this DCR, I get following output.
[html]Business Interiors by Fields FM [/html]I understand that second line will be displayed like as is from tinyMCE textarea, if I dont use HTML format in TinyMCE. But why does it appear like this for the textfield ? Why does it display all tags, instead of superscript form ?

I believe there's a TinyMCE configuration somewhere that allows you to prevent it from stripping away certain elements (like 'sup')

I checked source code and it displays as follows.
<h4>Business Interiors by Fields&lt;span style="font-size: 60%; text-align: top;"&gt;&lt;sup&gt;FM&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; </h4>
Why does CMS convert "<" and ">" tags to "<" and ">" ?

When you say you checked the source - do you mean the DCR file - or viewing HTML source within TinyMCE?
If the former - it has to do that because the HTML has to be entitized to be included in the XML (it generally gets un-entitized when you process it with a PT)

Below is the code from PT that generates this Heading output. Its in XSL on which I have little experience.
[html]

[/html]
How to get rid of this problem ? How to make sure thattext field is displaed in HTML form ?

You might try removing the disable-output-escaping clause and see if that helps.

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nirjari

I tried by removing disable-output-escaping. It did not make any difference

If I want to get "<", ">" in the output file, then I will require disable-output-escaping="yes". Then only it will generate these symbols in output file, which will be interpreted by browser as HTML tags. Why is it not working, thats the question now.

Thanks

Rick Poulin

I believe there's a TinyMCE configuration somewhere that allows you to prevent it from stripping away certain elements (like 'sup')

valid_elements and extended_valid_elements, as documented at http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/wiki.php/Configuration:valid_elements

If I want to get "<", ">" in the output file, then I will require disable-output-escaping="yes". Then only it will generate these symbols in output file, which will be interpreted by browser as HTML tags. Why is it not working, thats the question now.

Quite right, the disable-output-escaping="yes" should be there when using a TinyMCE field, otherwise it renders the markup as plain text. If removing this produces different but still incorrect results, then the problem is in your DCR. If removing this produces the same incorrect results, then something's wrong in your XSLT. You may consider adding something like this as an immediate child of the root <xsl:stylesheet> tag:
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doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"
doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" />
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That declaration might kick it into a mode that understands the disable-output-escaping tag.

nirjari

Please note that, error I am getting is related to text field and not to textarea field where tinyMCE is used.

This problem was not there before.
This looks like CMS issue. I just checked XML source of DCR and in that DCR itself, I see that "<" and ">" have been converted to < and >
What do I need to do in order to make sure that in DCR, its generated as "<" and ">" ? I have to put code as follows, because in HTML tags, < and > is changed to angle brackets. Its not getting generated properly and I am not sure how out the code in here, the way its coming up in DCR. Admin, can you please help display code as its coming in DCR ?

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Business Interiors by FieldsSM
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Any idea, why DCR XML would be generated like this, with "<" and ">" changed to < and > ?

Thanks

Rick Poulin

Your DCR is properly encoded (when I look at what you posted, rather than what vBulletin is rendering). The TinyMCE-captured HTML markup is content, which is why it's escaped as *content* in the DCR. If this wasn't the case, FormsPub would get very confused trying to distinguish DCR markup from HTML (content) markup. When you use xsl:value-of on your Description element, it'll decode the DCR and read your HTML markup properly. However, when it outputs it again (without disable-output-escaping), it re-escapes it because it has to assume that you were reading plain text and not markup unless you specifically tell it as much.

nirjari

Can we leave tineMCE aside for now please ? THIS PROBLEM IS FROM TEXTFIELD AND NOT TEXTAREA. I am getting confused, when your replies are mentioning tinyMCE.

My problem is with HEADING element.

I thankyou all for your replies. Please let me know, if I enter "<" and ">" would IWOV CMS, change it to "<" and ">" , while creating DCR from the values entered in DCT ? If yes, then how can I generate "<" and ">" in the output file, which is generated by PT ?

Rick Poulin

Can we leave tineMCE aside for now please ? THIS PROBLEM IS FROM TEXTFIELD AND NOT TEXTAREA. I am getting confused, when your replies are mentioning tinyMCE.

Sorry, you weren't exactly clear about that in your first post. My previous explanation still stands (although I find it odd that you expect your users to type HTML markup into a single textfield). The content should be XML-encoded because that's the way XML documents work, and that's exactly what FormsPub will do. Again, your DCR looks exactly as it should and this is not the cause of your problems.

nirjari

Requirement is to allow users to use superscript and subscript in content. This will involve use of HTML tags in content fields.

I understand that DCR is good. So if I keeep default behavior of disable-output-escaping, then it should automatically transform < ; to "<". I tried using default behavior too, but I am getting same output as mentioned earlier. WHat shall I start looking at now ? I need to get superscript and subscript printed out in the output files. Is there any other way than this ?

By the way, how can I type &it ; in this post ? WHen I type it, it just prints "<" ? Is there an escape character available to take out the meaning of < ; in here ?

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Adam Stoller

Requirement is to allow users to use superscript and subscript in content. This will involve use of HTML tags in content fields.

I understand that DCR is good. So if I keeep default behavior of disable-output-escaping, then it should automatically transform < ; to "<". I tried using default behavior too, but I am getting same output as mentioned earlier. WHat shall I start looking at now ? I need to get superscript and subscript printed out in the output files. Is there any other way than this ?

Can you post a sample DCR (complete, but one that doesn't contain much, and certainly not proprietary, content) and the XSL you are using?

By the way, how can I type &it ; in this post ? WHen I type it, it just prints "<" ? Is there an escape character available to take out the meaning of < ; in here ?

If you Quote my first response you can see how I do it - not pretty but it works.

nirjari

Please find my code herewith.

DCR Code [php]

Business Interiors by Fields^FM

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This one looks good now. Please check post number 5. Its tags are removed by vBulletin. PT Code[php]

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Please let me know what can be wrong ?

Thanks

Adam Stoller

Can you post a sample DCR (complete, but one that doesn't contain much, and certainly not proprietary, content) and the XSL you are using?

Let me clarify - post these files as attachements.

What you posted were context-less extracts that do not allow those of us here who might be willing to expend some time on your behalf to actually do so in a meaningful way. If you're asking for help - you need to be willing to provide what's asked of you in return.