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    Posted: 26 April 2006 at 2:47am
I put my signature line in like this:
 
 
When I save it is reformatted to this:
 
 
and then in messes up the forum layout for any thread that I have posted in.  See screen shot
 
 Users should not be able to mess up the forum layout via their signature lines.
 
 
 


Edited by JakePehrson - 26 April 2006 at 2:52am
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Because of restrictions within the database only 255 characters can be used for a signature.

Signatures are limited to 200 characters, but if you use BBCodes to format things like links, these can add allot of characters to a signature taking it over the 255 characters allowed by the database.

The only solution is to shorten your signature.
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boRg,

Thanks for the quick reply.

I did shorten the signature (which of course fixed the problem). The potential problem is that a user could screw up the layout of the message board with their signature alone.

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Borg, this was the same issue that I posted about before.

Maybe there should be some checking to see if the html tags are actually closed?  For every < there should also be a >.  Its the missing > at the end that is screwing everything up.

Hey, I just throught of an easy and elegant solution.  Immediately after it displays the signature, put an empty html comment <!-- --> in the outputted code.  The closing --> will close the cut off tag in the signature, which will prevent the signature from messing up the layout of the forum.


Edited by wistex - 03 May 2006 at 2:34am
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