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Signature can mess up layout

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Topic: Signature can mess up layout

Posted By: JakePehrson
Subject: Signature can mess up layout
Date Posted: 26 April 2006 at 2:47am

I put my signature line in like this:

Jake Pehrson
http://www.coralplanet.com - www.coralplanet.com
Murray
http://aquaticdatabase.com - http://aquaticdatabase.com
http://coralplanet.com - http://coralplanet.com
http://sugarglidercentral.com - http://sugarglidercentral.com

When I save it is reformatted to this:

Jake Pehrson
http://www.coralplanet.com/ - www.coralplanet.com
Murray
http://aquaticdatabase.com - http://aquaticdatabase.com
http://coralplanet.com - http://coralplanet.com
<a href=" http://sugarglid - http://sugarglid

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.

http://www.utahreefs.com/screenshot.jpg - http://www.utahreefs.com/screenshot.jpg

Replies:

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 26 April 2006 at 10:52am

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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Posted By: JakePehrson
Date Posted: 26 April 2006 at 4:27pm

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.

Thanks

Posted By: wistex
Date Posted: 03 May 2006 at 2:33am

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.

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