Moodle

HTML tags no longer work in various activity names

Details

  • Type: Improvement Improvement
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Not a bug
  • Affects Version/s: 1.8, 1.8.1, 1.8.2, 1.9
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: General
  • Labels:
    None
  • Affected Branches:
    MOODLE_18_STABLE, MOODLE_19_STABLE

Description

Can we please have those HTML tags back in activity names?
See this discussion: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=77596
Josph

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Mauno Korpelainen added a comment -

Hi Joseph,

at least span is still working and not cut away with style definitions. Try for example name

<span style="color:red">Moodle Features Demo</span>

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Mauno Korpelainen added a comment - Hi Joseph, at least span is still working and not cut away with style definitions. Try for example name <span style="color:red">Moodle Features Demo</span>
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Mauno Korpelainen added a comment -

...and images can be added using background:url(...) inside <span style="..."> or use some class or id defined for span in css.

I believe the reason for this change (whoever made it) is XHTML. You should for example use CSS instead of the font tag to change the look of your text in valid XHTML.

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Mauno Korpelainen added a comment - ...and images can be added using background:url(...) inside <span style="..."> or use some class or id defined for span in css. I believe the reason for this change (whoever made it) is XHTML. You should for example use CSS instead of the font tag to change the look of your text in valid XHTML.
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Joseph Rézeau added a comment -

Thanks Mauno for your reply. Of course I understand that it has to do with the b... XHTML compliance. Too bad these strict standards make things which were easy so complicated.
Anyway, here is how to insert a smiley icon at the end of the title of an activity, respecting XHTML:

News Forum <span style="background-image:url(images/wink.gif);background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:center;">  

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Joseph Rézeau added a comment - Thanks Mauno for your reply. Of course I understand that it has to do with the b... XHTML compliance. Too bad these strict standards make things which were easy so complicated. Anyway, here is how to insert a smiley icon at the end of the title of an activity, respecting XHTML: News Forum <span style="background-image:url(images/wink.gif);background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:center;">  
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Joseph Rézeau added a comment -

Example of smiley icon in an activity title, XHTML compliant. Joseph R.

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Joseph Rézeau added a comment - Example of smiley icon in an activity title, XHTML compliant. Joseph R.
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Martin Dougiamas added a comment -

Yeah, XHTML is annoying, I agree

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Martin Dougiamas added a comment - Yeah, XHTML is annoying, I agree

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