Settings > Formatting fields display HTML special characters wrong

  • Resolved Daedalon

    (@daedalon)


    13 years, 5 months ago

    When editing the formatting of for example the Single Location page and typing “& nbsp;” (without the space) for a non-breaking space, it gets saved in the database correctly, but when viewing the page again, it is shown in the editor as a regular space. Thus if you edit a different part of the setting field and save it, it is now saved into db as a regular space.

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  • Plugin Author Marcus (aka @msykes)

    (@netweblogic)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    not sure there’s much we can do about that… if we try to convert the & then it’ll convert everything including the html tags.

    Thread Starter Daedalon

    (@daedalon)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    Depending on how the conversion is currently done, one way is to double-encode every “& nbsp;” (without the space) before the display. Perhaps extend it to all “& something;” (without the space) special chars.

    Something like $text = preg_replace( '_&([A-Za-z0-9#]+;)_', '& amp;$1', $text ); (without the space after “&”) should do the trick.

    Plugin Author Marcus (aka @msykes)

    (@netweblogic)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    could look into that in the future but there’s other implications with that. For now I suggest you hook into the wp filter option_dbem…. for the options you need this on and apply this to the options you want to add this to.

    if we add this for “& amp;” then the next request will be for some other entity 🙂

    Thread Starter Daedalon

    (@daedalon)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    if we add this for “& amp;” then the next request will be for some other entity 🙂

    For this I suggested doing it for all entities at once with the preg_replace above. Requires testing, though.

    Will look into that filter, thanks.

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