nobreakspace / validation issues

  • Mark (podz)

    (@podz)


    19 years, 3 months ago

    Because I’m lazy, I’ve been using some nbsp in the footer to separate some data.
    I put 5 in, using the correct ascii code.
    Save file, look and all is well.
    Look again, and WP has rendered the code into spaces, and of course the browser ignores 5 spaces in a row, seeing only one.

    This also happens when validating.
    If I use & a m p ; then it will validate correctly, but the WP will make that into just the & character and the validator gets upset about it.

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  • Thread Starter Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    19 years, 3 months ago

    Okay….more info:

    My page validated.
    I open up ‘sidebar.php’ and then save it without doing anything.
    Validation breaks.
    Reason is this:
    gi?USER=Tamba2&L=1"
    and the unencoded ampersand.
    I change that line to this:
    gi?USER=Tamba2&a m p ; L=1" (spaces added so it shows here)
    Save the page.

    It validates again.

    Open up ‘sidebar.php’, save with no changes.
    Validation breaks because of this again:
    gi?USER=Tamba2&L=1"

    Odd effect.
    Anyone else get this ?

    navid

    (@navid)

    19 years, 3 months ago

    What text editor are you using to open sidebar.php up?

    Thread Starter Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    19 years, 3 months ago

    The WP one.

    (As in the built-in text editor thingy)

    [The above sounds like some sort of prisoner…..”Free the WP one !!” 🙂 ]

    Thread Starter Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    19 years, 3 months ago

    I just updated and checked – this still happens.

    Page validates.
    Re-save ‘sidebar.php’
    Validation fails in ‘sidebar.php’

    Mosquito looks very busy… so I’ve not put it there.

    amiantos

    (@amiantos)

    19 years, 3 months ago

    Looks to me like, and I’ve had this problem with my index, the latest build of 1.5 (maybe all of them?), the built in editor is rendering & … ; characters and then causing problems. If you go through and edit all the special characters back to the & … ; and then save it, the problems will disappear. But, if you go back in again and edit the file without re-replacing the characters, it will break again.

    Thread Starter Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    19 years, 3 months ago

    Bad bump behaviour as I’m adding nothing, but this persists.

    robmientjes

    (@robmientjes)

    19 years, 3 months ago

    Another vote for that. Really not nice for people who like validation (like people who parse their sites as app/xhtml+xml).

    robmientjes

    (@robmientjes)

    19 years, 3 months ago

    Changes to be made:
    wp-admin/templates.php on line 74: wp_specialchars($content) –> htmlspecialchars($content)
    wp-admin/theme-editor.php on line 76: wp_specialchars($content) –> htmlspecialchars($content)

    Use at your own risk.

    robmientjes

    (@robmientjes)

    19 years, 3 months ago

    Oh, and of course: all credit goes to Matt and Podz for working this out.

    robmientjes

    (@robmientjes)

    19 years, 3 months ago

    And to add even more to that: it’s in the CVS now, so get your latest!

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