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Hi there,

I have just started adding a few stories to my site and GL seems to be stripping out some of the HTML, not the stuff I would expect.

If I use:


Then it strips out the width=25% section leaving me with just:


It also removes any  & n b s p ; tags and replaces them with spaces (I have to spread out the name of the tag as it replaced it with a space in this forum!

td tags are turned on, but it makes my tables look a bit messy as they aren't formatted right.

I can't see anything in the config.php regarding this, as it only specifies allowed tags eg td, tr etc.

Also, how do you implement the tags? I assume these allow you link to another story which is what I am after.

Any help would be appreciated.

Why does Geeklog remove certain HTML tags?

And also About Autolinks And Autotags

Both links were produced using autotags, btw (faq: and story:, respectively).

bye, Dirk

What Dirk fails to mention is that GL uses a html filter. This filter, kses, strips all your html to the bare bones. This is controlled by allowed_html in config.php. This is a good thing because it prevents evil persons from trying to hack your site. You can also turn off the use of kses in config.php.

Currently there is a bug in kses in that the filter will declare most anything inside a style statement that has a ":" (colon) as bad and strip it out.

Byte

It's all explained in the FAQ entry I pointed to ...

bye, Dirk

That explains the frustration I am experiancing. The FCKeditor uses "font-weight: bold" to make a bold faces and Kses keeps stripping it off.

Sam

I've emailed the author of kses asking about this bug, but have not received a response. I've started to debug it a little bit already. I know which function its failing in now, but since this is regex stuff, I will have to study it harder than usual.

Byte

Are you sure - it should be used the <strong> tag. It does with the current version that is distributed with GL 1.4 anyways.

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Yes I was talking about FCKeditor that comes with GL 1.4. It uses &lt;span style=&quot;FONT-WEIGHT: bold&quot;&gt; on my site.

I can't figure out how to force it to use 'Strong' or simply 'b'.

Sam

Uh, FCKEditor generates different HTML for some features like bold and italic. If using IE, you get the strong tag but in FF, you get the span style ... html generated.

There are several bug reports on this issue and it looks like they have tried a few times to fix this. The latest 2.1 version that we have included implemented the span tag method for Mozilla browsers. Apparently Mozilla has some issue with the strong tag and I have no idea why they don't just use the bold tag.

I will try to find out more.

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There are config settings in the fckeditor/fckconfig.js file that will force FireFox to use either the < b > or the < strong > tags. I was testing these earlier and not seeing any effect - turns out you have to make sure you clear the FF cache to pick up the changes. Closing down FF and restarting is not sufficient.

The setting that control how the bold and italic emphasis are treated are:
FCKConfig.ForceStrongEm = false ;
FCKConfig.GeckoUseSPAN = false ;

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Wonderful!

Thanks, Blaine.

Sam