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

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi Chris,

Announcements certainly does support HTML links, confirmed on the nightly trunk, what version Sakai are you using?

cheers,
Steve

On 03/02/2011, at 3:21 AM, Brandt, Chris M. wrote:

> 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
> ____________
> 
> 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
> 
> ____________
> 
> 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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