Forum Discussion

keithkelly's avatar
keithkelly
Leader
2 years ago

Colons are sometimes escaped...?

A user reported this, and sure enough   This happens both in & out of code blocks, and not necessarily just after javascript.  I submitted a support ticket, but I'm posting here too because ...
luk's avatar
luk
Boss
2 years ago

Double posting to prevent that exact bug form happening to my post above 😉...

So the issue is that the content encoder Khoros uses is a bit dumb, it just checks character by character and does not check if an ampersand is part of an already encoded HTML entity... not sure if that is something we can fix, other than using JavaScript (which I did to solve the problem in the SEO field, but i should probably re-visit that code and expand it to all content...) on the editor Pages and un-encode any existing "&" into "&" within form fields...

This is the code i used for that (which i need to update it seems):

 

// Handle &amp ampersand bug in SEO field of Article (TKB, more?) Editor Pages
// & get replace with & but each time the article is saved again, the & of the &
// gets encoded again, resulting in continuous encoding, e.g. &
if ( $('.lia-form-message-seo-description-input, .lia-form-message-seo-title-input').length ) {
	$('.lia-form-message-seo-description-input, .lia-form-message-seo-title-input').each(function() {
		$(this).val($(this).val().replaceAll(/amp;/gm, ''))
	});
}