HTML Tags Error

Written on 12/16/04 at 10:19:15 EST by Jack Deth

Currently I am having this issue when trying to add a comment to an article. i will see where else I find this problem... I get an error of: Error: You have HTML tags in your name When trying to post the comment. Have to figure this one out... OK, looks like I can't post comments on Articles at all... Not sure if its the article I am trying, but I will see if they all have this problem.  And YES, they all have this problem it seems. It might be an issue with the fact that when I changed my name from Admin to Jackdeth, my earlier articles are still listed as Admin when they should have changed to JackDeth as well. somewhere there is a bug in either the commenting or the naming for admin in the site.

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Re: HTML Tags Error

Written on 12/16/04 at 10:28:17 EST by Jack_Deth

Looks like error is in regards to someone using a space in their name. When you name yourself Jack Deth for instance, the script seems to be adding in html to mark the space?  I am assuming as according to the error I am getting. I renamed myself Jack_Deth and am once again able to post coments on the site like this one here: http://www.2xlnt.com/922beta/undercover.cgi?action=viewnews&id=7 SO I have narrowed this issue down to having spaces in your name. Probably need to add in some code to "parse"?? spaces into something, and then to allow the spaces to be used when writing a comment.  I can write in the forums, so I am sure the existing piece of code needed is in there. Lets find it, and kill this bug.

Re: HTML Tags Error

Written on 12/16/04 at 23:48:49 EST by bantychick

Hi JackDeth. Here I am with FireFox. I see what you mean about the layout, it is narrow. Looks like the tables are at their natural width and are not holding at 100%. Check out http://www.open-id.com/source/webapp/bantyapp/ with FireFox... It looks okay? So maybe it is that misplaced body tag in the Useful Links Box. Now back to the subject of your post here - Looks like Anton's fix for non-word characters in names is working. I recognize his fix because of that "you have html characters in your name" phrase. Remember putting that in the Language file. Maybe we need to do a minor adjustment on that fix.

Re: HTML Tags Error

Written on 12/16/04 at 23:53:10 EST by bantychick

Ahhhh, got my IE back on now. Much better. That WAS weird with that FireFox. I guess it's kind of neat, but just doesn't seem quite as slick right off hand at first try.

Re: HTML Tags Error

Written on 12/16/04 at 23:54:56 EST by Jack_Deth

Yeah, I am going to test it now... I actually checked your link on your site and was about to remove the block with the funky html in it... I was on the phone for the past hour waiting to do it ;) And now I can...

Re: HTML Tags Error

Written on 12/16/04 at 23:57:00 EST by bantychick

Yay we're free. Free to be back to our WebAPP.

Re: HTML Tags Error

Written on 12/16/04 at 23:57:34 EST by Jack_Deth

I am planning on removing that block... but you may notice, its uneditable...  thats part of some of the testing I was doing.

Re: HTML Tags Error

Written on 12/17/04 at 00:04:18 EST by bantychick

Hey the block is gone all of a sudden. And  your site looks good now with FireFox.

Re: HTML Tags Error

Written on 12/17/04 at 00:08:04 EST by Jack_Deth

Yeah I know...  I deleted it from the dat file... BUT...  my site is not W3C Certifying... It keeps seeing issues with my URLs... Odd... Check it out... http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.2xlnt.com%2F922beta%2Fbeta.cgi Damned URL Code isnt working on that link... Neither was placing an a href on it... so I guess just cut and plaste it in your browser...

Re: HTML Tags Error

Written on 12/17/04 at 00:11:51 EST by bantychick

I did. Those are unencoded ampersands in your right plugins. My computer's doing somethign weird, I'm shutting down. Might be a spy. See you on my other computer.

Re: HTML Tags Error

Written on 12/17/04 at 00:14:47 EST by Jack_Deth

OK, so if they are "evil" asperands... how do the "encode" them and get them to see the light?

Re: HTML Tags Error

Written on 12/17/04 at 00:16:46 EST by bantychick

Never mind, it stopped whatever it was doing. In your URLs with query strings, all the ampersands need to be encoded like this - & . Instead of just & . Then it will validate. I forget which plugins it was in, I think poll and latest forum on the right. In the validator, check the see source code box, and it will show what else is on the line so you can find it easier.

Re: HTML Tags Error

Written on 12/17/04 at 00:18:04 EST by bantychick

so they would be like action=forum&board=Welcome&op=post

Re: HTML Tags Error

Written on 12/17/04 at 00:22:26 EST by Jack_Deth

that makes sense to me... now to find it...

Re: HTML Tags Error

Written on 12/17/04 at 00:24:46 EST by Jack_Deth

Get this.... The first lot of problems which are showing up as being on line 244??? Its the silly link I added in the Welcome Message. Now to see what the others are... The others are coming from the Poll Update Mod. its a link in their somewhere thats not validating... I will have to look into it I guess... OR I will update it with Abwyns Newest version, maybe she fixed this...

Re: HTML Tags Error

Written on 12/17/04 at 00:36:57 EST by Jack_Deth

Updated the Polls Update and changed the asperands to & I am sure its all going to be good... The site is now valid html 4.01 ) woohoo!!!

Re: HTML Tags Error

Written on 12/17/04 at 00:41:28 EST by bantychick

Congratulations! That thing in the welcome message is because it makes a url around a url in there. I've run into it before. I forget what the difference is between here and there, all the sites.

Re: HTML Tags Error

Written on 12/17/04 at 00:48:19 EST by Jack_Deth

Well I just changed the link in the welcome message so the "asperands" (&) were set as "&" and that was that... Its odd though...  but what can you do?

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