Was not! OK, maybe. Actually what I was going to suggest was replacing the <> on the html tags you want with a control character like chr(27) then stripping all the tags, then swapping the escaped tags back in. This was pre-first cup of morning coffee however. Isaac's udf looks nice.
> -----Original Message----- > From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 25 February 2003 9:43 a.m. > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Allowing specific HTML tags to be displayed > > > Hey Russ -- I already know what Matt's going to recommend ant > that's using > <cfimport> with an empty prefix value which will allow you to > specify a > directory of CF modules to replace the html tags. It's not a > bad solution, > however, the problem you're going to have is that you need 1 > tag for each > html element someone might type into the form, so ... to > avoid that kind of > work-creep, you might want to check out the StripTags() > function that can be > found both in the open-source API in my sig and on www.cflib.org. > > <cfset thedata = striptags("allow","a,b,i,img",thedata)> > > This syntax will remove any xml-style tag that's not a link > (or anchor), > bold, italic or html image tag from the string. Note that it doesn't > currently remove anything but the tags themselves, so given the string > "hello <blink>world</blink>" it would return "hello world", > not "hello ". > > You'll probably want to do this _before_ the data goes into the db if > possible because it's a reasonably large function with a lot of string > manipulation. > > hth > > s. isaac dealey 954-776-0046 > > new epoch http://www.turnkey.to > > lead architect, tapestry cms http://products.turnkey.to > > tapestry api is opensource http://www.turnkey.to/tapi > > certified advanced coldfusion 5 developer > http://www.macromedia.com/v1/handlers/index.cfm?ID=21816 > > > > Are you running CF5 or CFMX? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Russ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 8:16 AM > > Subject: Allowing specific HTML tags to be displayed > > > >> All-- > >> > >> I've still not had any luck trying to get Replace or > >> ReReplace to allow > >> a set of specific codes when displaying information from > >> a database. > >> > >> I'm hoping to allow for only specific sets: Italics, > >> Bold, A HREF and > >> IMG SRC and I'm baffled as to how to get this to work. > >> It's a bit of a > >> repost, but I'm really striking out. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Russ > >> > >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > ~~~~~~~~~~~| > > Archives: > > http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 > > Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index. > > cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 > > FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq > > This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by > > CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion > > Hosting. > > > Unsubscribe: > http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/uns > > ubscribe.cfm?user=633.558.4 > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
