Won't fix If beginning of first post has <> tags it breaks meta

[dethfire]

Affected version

2.1

My staff uses <mod note: blah blah> a lot at the beginning of posts. I've found that if a first post has that it breaks meta description etc.

<meta name="description" content="" />
<meta property="og:description" content="" />
<meta property="twitter:description" content="" />

 

[Chris D]

This is intentional. Anything that looks like it could be HTML (the angle brackets <>) is stripped for security reasons.

 

[dethfire]

This is intentional. Anything that looks like it could be HTML (the angle brackets <>) is stripped for security reasons.

But why are the tags empty? The notes are only like 30 characters long. Why not start the description content after the brackets?

 

[Chris D]

We only strip the brackets and content of the brackets. We don't strip anything else.

Can you create a thread in the Test messages forum with something that is representative of a real post on your forum, and does it have the same issue you're reporting here?

 

[dethfire]

happens here too

https://xenforo.com/community/threads/testing-description-after-brackets.163491/

 

[dethfire]

@Chris D do you confirm this now?

 

[Chris D]

Ok, after a closer inspection, there isn't anything we're going to do here right now.

I wasn't too far wrong with the behaviour I mentioned previously, though the difference is that because the snippet opens with what looks like a HTML tag, and it cannot find a corresponding closing tag, the strip_tags function just strips the whole lot, believing it all to be HTML content.

Further, I can't see this being a significant issue. If they are moderator notes, I assume they aren't going to be visible publicly anyway. If it is significant, all I can suggest is using a different format; using square brackets rather than angle brackets works, for example.

 

[dethfire]

Understood thanks