Re: formencode.htmlfill.FillingParser chokes on javascript HTML

Another trick might be to split your tag with concatenated strings so
that it doesn't look like HTML. I couldn't (quickly) make htmlfill
break on a simple example, but maybe you could try something like
this:

    function hover(obj, text) {$(obj).append("<" + "span class=flag>
(" + text + ")<" + "/span>");}

   - Aston

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Roy Hyunjin Han
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 11/18/2009 03:49 PM, Ian Bicking wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Roy Hyunjin Han
> > <[email protected]>  wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am using formencode.htmlfill() to render a form, but the function is inadvertently parsing my javascript code.  Specifically, formencode.htmlfill.FillingParser raises the following exception
> >>
> >>      HTMLParseError: malformed start tag
> >>
> >> when it encounters the following jQuery code
> >>
> >>      function hover(obj, text) {$(obj).append("<span class=flag>  (" + text + ")</span>");}
> >>
> >> and does not raise the exception after I remove the offending code.  Perhaps we should strip javascript before htmlfill?
> >>
> > Well... what needs to happen is everything between<script>  and
> > </script>  should be treated as text, but HTMLParser doesn't understand
> > that.
> >
> > I *think* it would work fine to do:
> >
> >    function hover(obj, text) {$(obj).append("&lt;span class=flag&gt; ("
> > + text + ")&lt;/span&gt;");}
> >
> > Which is actually something we could do automatically with a regex.
> > Unfortunately right now I can't reproduce, I put a test at the bottom
> > here: http://bitbucket.org/ianb/formencode/src/tip/tests/test_htmlfill.py
> > -- but it passes.Thanks for your suggestion!
> >
> >
> Thanks for your suggestion!
>
> Escaping the brackets does fix the problem with htmlfill(), but it is
> also causing the browser to interpret the brackets literally, so the
> text prints but is not rendered as a span element.
>
> I think for the meantime I will have to do without that bit of
> javascript on the page, because I need to use htmlfill().
>
> RHH
>
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