Automatically close mismatched tags - htmlcorrector in core

This is not exactly a bug, but it's not exactly a feature either, is it?

Current functionality is that the Drupal break tag just breaks -- it doesn't look at any other tags, etc. Of course, if you have the HTML filter turned off, or you allow certain tags (such as , although things like unclosed lists would cause much more problems) you will get very nasty looking pages.

The HTML filter *and* the break/paging functionality are currently in very heavy development and these issues will be ironed out.

For now, this is essentially "by design". Your choice basically boils down to turning on HTML filtering, and then maybe enabling the bbcode module (which, since it's a filter, is also going to be re-vamped).

Hah. I notice that this bug report suffers from unclosed tags.

Hmmm...I never noticed that line in the admin. From my reading of the code, unclosed tags are *not* stripped. They are *definitely* not stripped if one tag appears before the break delimiter and one after.

For now, yes, you must filter all tags in order to prevent users from messing up pages.

Fixed the documentation of the filter, but making this a feature request as removing unclosed tags seems like a smart thing to do.

Automatically closing tags is a feature provided by htmlcorrector.module (in contribs), which I recently upgraded to work with the latest filter system changes. When dealing with the entire message (with a break tag included), it won't auto-close tags opened BEFORE the break until AFTER the break. To me, this seems like the expected behavior.

I would like something like HTMLCorrector to be available as a core option.

This would be nice to have - just look at the styling of this issue due to unclosed tags ;)

(or should it just be in contrib?)

this is now part of Drupal 6.