*Unnecessary* instances of HTML escape sequences like λ ?

I understand the need for web pages to denote the 5 HTML special characters >, &, <, ', and " with alternate representations like ". (These 5 are the *only* special characters in HTML right?) What I don't understand is why an HTML page encoded with UTF-8 would use this &#...; format for other

Re: html Escape

If you have plain text (After you have removed out all HTML tags), a simple URLIZE filter would work, and allow links to be clickable. more details: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/builtins/#urlize On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Matias wrote: > Hi, > I think there is no s

Re: html Escape

Hi, I think there is no such filter, so you'll have to code it. This http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-template-tags/#filters-and-auto-escapingmay help HTH, Matias. On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:54 AM, When ideas fail wrote: > > Thanks, can i strip out all tags other than tags. > >

Re: html Escape

Thanks, can i strip out all tags other than tags. I would like people to be able to put links in comments. Andrew On 25 Aug, 03:42, Parag Shah wrote: > Hi, > > You can use the strip_tags function to strip all html from text. > > from django.utils.html import strip_tags > > In your view > comm

Re: html Escape

Hi, You can use the strip_tags function to strip all html from text. from django.utils.html import strip_tags In your view comment = strip_tags(request.POST["comment"]) -- Regards Parag On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:25 AM, When ideas fail wrote: > > Hello, i want to allow users to post comments a

html Escape

Hello, i want to allow users to post comments and I don't want them to be allowed to put html in comments. However I would like the to be able to use paragraph p tags and tags but not anything other. Could someone tell me how to do this? Thanks Andrew --~--~-~--~~~-