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HTML Purifier doesn't like fckeditor's use of the "name" attribute for anchors

Posted by dogbertdp on October 14, 2009 at 6:10pm
Project:HTML Purifier
Version:6.x-2.1
Component:Miscellaneous
Category:support request
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:closed (works as designed)

Issue Summary

Has anyone gotten fckeditor 2.6 anchors to work with HTML Purifier? I have set EnableID to "Yes".

If I create an anchor using the anchor button, fckeditor creates markup similar to the following:

<a name="testanchor"></a>

which HTML Purifier filters to:

<a></a>

If I go into source and change <a name= to <a id=, the anchor works, but my users won't know to do that (also fckeditor strips that change out if you edit the node).

Has anyone figured out how to either get HTML Purifier to accept "name" or fckeditor to use the "id" attribute instead of "name"?

Thanks,
Mike Hays

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Comments

#1

Posted by ezyang on October 22, 2009 at 3:42pm
Status:active» postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Try upgrading your HTML Purifier version. With Attr.EnableId set to on, a name="" attribute get preserved for me.

#2

Posted by kiluminati on October 23, 2009 at 8:09am

I have the same problem. "EnableId" is set to on, I added "name" to "AllowedAttributes". Both config options were made through the GUI.

#3

Posted by promes on October 23, 2009 at 4:15pm

I tried to change my setting for version 5-1.4, but I can't find the correct settings.
I did set the following GUI options:
Enable allowed specification: set
Allowed specification: name (this was added)
I tried both set and unset of: Allow the ID attribute in HTML

Can anyone help me out?

#4

Posted by ezyang on December 13, 2009 at 12:38am
Status:postponed (maintainer needs more info)» closed (fixed)

My apologies for the extremely late response.

Remove the allowed name specifications (i.e. don't click the checkbox), and ONLY set "Allow the ID attribute in HTML" to be checked, and it should work. This is only for the Drupal 5 version of the module.

#5

Posted by promes on December 14, 2009 at 5:02pm

Ezyang, thanks for the update. It works fine. BUT you have to empty the database table cache_htmlpurifier as well or update all nodes with a link to a <a name=...> I presume.

#6

Posted by kruser on December 21, 2009 at 9:51pm
Version:6.x-2.0» 6.x-2.1

I'm seeing this issue in the drupal 6 version. I set "EnableID" to Yes, and cleared cache, but it's still removing the name attribute from an anchor tag.

edit: My anchor names are "1", "2", "3" etc., but if I switch them to a, b, c, etc - then i works. Why won't numerical names work??

#7

Posted by ezyang on December 21, 2009 at 10:00pm
Status:closed (fixed)» closed (works as designed)

Numerical IDs are not permitted by the W3C spec. You should enable %HTML.Attr.Name.UseCDATA

#8

Posted by Angelbaby on September 25, 2010 at 3:14pm

"Remove the allowed name specifications (i.e. don't click the checkbox), and ONLY set "Allow the ID attribute in HTML" to be checked, and it should work. This is only for the Drupal 5 version of the module."

In lamers terms, how do you set "allow the id attribute in HTML" to be checked? Not quiet clear on this point. Im finding that the html purifier is stripping name attributions from my code in drupal 6...

Any help would be great please

#9

Posted by ezyang on September 28, 2010 at 2:47pm

There is a filter configuration page that has these configuration options. On new version of the module, set Attr.EnableId, or if FCKEditor is producing bogus name values, use HTML.Attr.Name.UseCDATA

#10

Posted by anthonyR on June 30, 2011 at 11:03am

Thanks a lot for the fix.
I just enabled 'EnableID' and the name attribute does not get stripped out. Sweet!