HTML Entity Parsing

[Laurie Stearn]

HTML entity strings like “&lt;” and “&gt;” won’t translate to their coded functional forms, for example with headers like “<h2&gt;Header2&lt;/h2>”:

<h2>Header2</h2>

Funny thing is if you put the above string “<h2&gt;Header2&lt;/h2>” inside code backticks, it auto translates to the HTML “<" and ">” characters, and, unsurprisingly, appears as above.
More for the sandbox thread!

[Bob Marley]

Seems to be working here. Which editor are you using?

Sorry for the new topic. Wasn’t sure if you were done with the old sandbox posts

[Laurie Stearn]

Sorry, meant the string “<h3&gt;Header3&lt;/h3>” is expected to transform to
 

Header3

And not:

“<h3>Header3</h3>”

Edit: What a silly dumbo, that’s the expected behaviour as they are just the escaped characters. 😛

In any case, the sandbox/test activity will help as H1 and H2 don’t seem to be working at all. For example “<h2>Header2</h2>” gives nothing below:

Header2

• This reply was modified 2 months, 1 week ago by Laurie Stearn.

[Bob Marley]

So apparently, the h1 and h2 tags are set to display: none so only h3 will work. I’ve fixed the issue by setting the display to unset, which resets things back to the default behavior 🙂

Let me know if there’s anything out of whack! No idea why they would hide the h1 and h2 tags

Edit:

Looks like it caused the title to appear on the forum index. Guess that was a header tag 😛

I may be able to fix that issue. I clean forgot about the descendant selectors. It’s been too long since I worked with this stuff! It’ll come back to me as I go!

Hmm, unset may not do what I thought it does. The default is block but unset causes it to show inline….

The property value of unset is new to me as it didn’t exist last time I was working with CSS

I’ve set up a new section to hold testing threads since some of the bugs we’ve encountered break other posts in a thread. 🙂

• This reply was modified 2 months, 1 week ago by Bob Marley.
• This reply was modified 2 months, 1 week ago by Bob Marley.
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[Bob Marley]

And fixed 🙂

Still need to determine the right property value for display, though

• This reply was modified 2 months, 1 week ago by Bob Marley.

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