CODEWITHSUNDEEP
ruby-on-railsruby-on-rails-3tinymceeditor
ahmet
ahmet

Reputation: 5005

text_area submit issue using Rich Text Editor which outputs HTML

Using tiny_mce from https://github.com/kete/tiny_mce to be able to change the format of the text, the problem is once its submitted it sends the html to my comments and its not getting translated and just outputs to plain html shown below

<ul> <li><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>hello&nbsp;</strong></span></li> <li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">test</span></li> <li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">est</span></li> <li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">est<br /></span></li> </ul>

How do i get rails to translate the html so it displays boldness etc.. I've tried putting it in HTML tags <html><%= comment.body %></html> which does not work!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 555

Answers (2)

brett-richardson
brett-richardson

Reputation: 106

You should sanitize the input in your model using a before_validation filter.

I like gem 'sanitize', with it you can self.body = Sanitize.clean( self.body, Sanitize::Config::RESTRICTED )

Then you can safely use <%= raw comment.body %> or <%= comment.body.html_safe %> to display the HTML.

Upvotes: 0

Ant
Ant

Reputation: 3887

Use the raw helper:

<%=raw comment.body %>

Upvotes: 6

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