stripping html from form inputs

rubyonrails-talk
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Ahoy m8ies,

Quick question.

Is there any existing demo code or a library which handles stripping unwanted tags from form fields?

Also, a form might allow image tags, but we might want to strip out any paramters other than SRC ?

Anohter issue is how handle inputs such as these:

- <b>1 is less than 2</b> - <b>1 is < than 2</b>

In the second case, we need to guess that < is not opening a tag, and convert it to a special character.

Thanks for any ideas or links!

Jasn

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Ahoy m8ies,

Quick question.

Is there any existing demo code or a library which handles stripping unwanted tags from form fields?

You might look at strip_links and strip_tags

http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html#M000622

Also, look at the tidy library and gem

http://tidy.sourceforge.net/

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Is there any existing demo code or a library which handles stripping unwanted tags from form fields?

Also, a form might allow image tags, but we might want to strip out any paramters other than SRC ?

http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/white_list/README

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Wonderful, thanks Rick and Philip