Why doesn't HTML work?

Post by **JimK** » Tue May 15, 2007 1:34 pm

I can't use HTML in posts - I'd prefer to do proper link and image tags instead of that horrible bbcode, but although it works in my sig it doesn't seem to work in the main posts.

My options say HTML is on and the 'Disable' box is not ticked.

Any ideas?

Post by **alex_holden** » Tue May 15, 2007 1:44 pm

More generally, how come the forum is still running such an old version of PNphpBB?

Post by **bpr81a** » Tue May 15, 2007 7:23 pm

HTML is fairly heavily restricted - we've had a lot of problems with 'inappropriate' content, and it provides an easy way for hackers to get into the site.

As to the version of the bulletin board (as well as the rest of the site) I'm just creating a duplicate so I can test upgrades etc. There's a fair amount to do first though, as the site isn't consistently 'postnuked'. I don't want to try to upgrade it in its current state

Jon Rocke
Web Editor

Post by **JimK** » Tue May 15, 2007 9:38 pm

bpr81a wrote:HTML is fairly heavily restricted - we've had a lot of problems with 'inappropriate' content, and it provides an easy way for hackers to get into the site.

All I want to do is <a href></a> and <img src=> but neither works.

Thanks for the comment, and I understand the security thing.

Post by **alex_holden** » Tue May 15, 2007 9:43 pm

OK, cool. I look forward to the upgrade with bated breath. One HTML tag I was trying to use recently is <strike></strike> - there doesn't seem to be an equivalent BBCode tag.

Post by **bpr81a** » Tue May 15, 2007 11:43 pm

According to the control panel, the only html tags allowed are:

b,i,u,pre,object,param,embed

I'm reluctant to change this without finding out why its set like this.

Post by **JimK** » Wed May 16, 2007 12:21 pm

<strike> is just a strikethrough on text, so it's no more problematic than or suchlike.

I notice from my earlier post that img tags do work, but not <a href>. I would have thought that embed would be worse than href?

Post by **alex_holden** » Wed May 16, 2007 1:25 pm

I don't know why A is filtered out (at least there is the [url] equivalent in BBCode), but I would guess somebody enabled EMBED and friends so as to allow videos and those scrolling photo gallery things.

Post by **JimK** » Wed May 16, 2007 1:29 pm

alex_holden wrote:I would guess somebody enabled EMBED and friends so as to allow those scrolling photo gallery things.

That's why I'd cheerfully get rid of it. In the meantime, I'll give thanks to Flashblock...

Post by **Packedup** » Thu May 17, 2007 1:38 am

alex_holden wrote:OK, cool. I look forward to the upgrade with bated breath. One HTML tag I was trying to use recently is <strike></strike> - there doesn't seem to be an equivalent BBCode tag.

There's various formatting mods for phpbb (and so PNphpBB), but personally I feel a great deal of them just don't add anything to posts (which is why I tend not to install them when throwing a bb up myself). I've certainly seen strike tags in some flavours of phpBB, as well as left/ right/ centre alignment and other things.