Not a bug [IMG] content being visually rendered when inside [CODE=rich] tag

[CTXMedia]

I came across this one whilst helping a member with their mileage signature ticker on CycleChat.

When using [ IMG ] tags inside of [ CODE=rich ] container the image is visually rendered instead of the text being shown.

See this thread for an examples: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/code-rich-test.59198/

Some test text:


Hopefully this will render plain but here's some test content to replicate it:

Regular [ code] tag:
[code]
[IMG]http://veloviewer.com/SigImage.php?a=1348e4&r=2&c=4&u=I&g=n&f=jilnozzzzz&z=a.png[/IMG]
[/code]

Rich [ code] tag:
[code=rich]
[IMG]http://veloviewer.com/SigImage.php?a=1348e4&r=2&c=4&u=I&g=n&f=jilnozzzzz&z=a.png[/IMG]
[/code]


... and here's how it looks:

Regular [ code] tag:

[IMG]http://veloviewer.com/SigImage.php?a=1348e4&r=2&c=4&u=I&g=n&f=jilnozzzzz&z=a.png[/IMG]

Rich [ code] tag:

 

[Jeremy]

I wouldn't exactly classify this as a bug, since the styling and JavaScript constrain it to the containing element. You can still expand it. But Mike & Kier will decide.

 

[CTXMedia]

I wouldn't exactly classify this as a bug, since the styling and JavaScript constrain it to the containing element. You can still expand it. But Mike & Kier will decide.

It's not really about containment, but about rendering. Surely any text inside a [ CODE ] wrapper should strictly display as text?

 

[Jeremy]

If you specify rich, it renders BBCode. Which is expected to render an IMG tag.

 

[CTXMedia]

If you specify rich, it renders BBCode. Which is expected to render an IMG tag.

I understood rich as applying text formatting, such as bold, colour, etc. not rendering the content of the pasted code.

I'd specifically used =rich to highlight the BBCode error to my member when they'd added their ticker code - putting the [ IMG ] tag in bold and expecting the resulting text to be in bold in the code view.

I'm pretty sure that's how the previous editor worked - so perhaps it's an old habit from the old editor that I just need to get out of?

 

[CTXMedia]

Hmmm ... okay, having tested this on an XF 1.x site it does the same thing so perhaps this is a perception thing (mine) and I should be using something else instead??!!

In which case, how would I render the text of [ IMG ] BBCode with some textual formatting to highlight parts of the code? (Perhaps is just isn't possible, given the combination of displaying the BBCode as text as well as using it for formatting [my head is beginning to hurt trying to work it out ... ]).

 

[Jeremy]

Use the plain tag:

[IMG]Or disrupt the tag.[/IMG]

 

[CTXMedia]

[IMG]http://veloviewer.com/SigImage.php?a=1348e4&r=2&c=4&u=I&g=n&f=jilnozzzzz&z=a.png[/IMG]


Unfortunately it doesn't allow text to be formatted - any formatting is removed on post.

This is a screenshot of what I'm trying to achieve and it just seems impossible:

 

[Jeremy]

If you quote my post, you'll see all I did was break up the [IMG] tag to force no parsing.

 

[CTXMedia]

So, using PLAIN to break the code (and render it, well, renderless ... lol) you can then format the before and after parts and they seamlessly join when posted?

[IMG]http://veloviewer.com/SigImage.php?a=1348e4&r=2&c=4&u=I&g=n&f=jilnozzzzz&z=a.png[/IMG]

Genius - thanks @Jeremy