[Building Sakai] html links in announcements and T&Q

[Brandt, Chris M.]

Karen,

That's exactly what we're trying to do :)

If I include <a href="http://google.com" target="_blank">google.com</a> (using either the link button or via source) --

Upon saving in T&Q, it gets translated to 
&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://google.com&quot;&gt;google.com&lt;/a&gt;

inside the question.

For Announcements, it just prevents the use of the a tag altogether with the red warning at the top.

Chris
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Chris Brandt, DVM, MS
Instructional Media Development Specialist
Computing and Technology Services (CATS)
UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine 
http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu
(530) 754-4452

From: ktsao at hungs.org [mailto:ktsao at hungs.org] On Behalf Of Karen Tsao
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 5:35 PM
To: Brandt, Chris M.
Cc: Sakai Developers (sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org); vmsakai
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] html links in announcements and T&Q

Even with the translating, you should still be able to have links. Can I get more details about what you plan to do? Like where you want to insert a 'a' tag? If it's an FCK field, you can either use the Insert/Edit Link icon or just type something like <a href="http://google.com" target="_blank">google.com</a> under source mode.

Thanks,
Karen
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Brandt, Chris M. <cmbrandt at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
So is there no way to have a clickable link inside of a question?

Chris

On Feb 1, 2011, at 4:28 PM, "Karen Tsao" <ktsao at stanford.edu<mailto:ktsao at stanford.edu>> wrote:

Hi Chris,

The change is to prevent cross site scripting (XSS). We call some APIs from org.sakaiproject.util.FormattedText class to translate the input to html safe content.

Thanks,
Karen
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Brandt, Chris M. <<mailto:cmbrandt at ucdavis.edu>cmbrandt at ucdavis.edu<mailto:cmbrandt at ucdavis.edu>> wrote:
We had an issue awhile back where the announcement tool wouldn't allow any HTML content (br, ul, li, etc.).

We're having a similar issue again -- only this time it's preventing us from using the 'a' tag.

In Announcements, a warning error pops up -"Alert: The HTML tag '<a>' is not allowed in formatted text."

In T&Q, it just rewrites the content, translating it to html safe content.

We're not sure when this cropped up, but it was only reported to us recently.

Any suggestions?

Chris

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Chris Brandt, DVM, MS
Instructional Media Development Specialist
Computing and Technology Services (CATS)
UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
<http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu>http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu
(530) 754-4452

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