SID-00873: Getting CommentPlugin Output into scrollable area on page.

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.3.2	Perl version:
Category:	CommentPlugin	Server OS:		Last update:	15 years ago

I have been trying to get the output of the CommentPlugin with formatting into a scrollable area on the same page without much success. Put it into a textarea like this works fine, however no formatting which was expected:

COMMENT{location="*123*"} <textarea readonly="readonly" style="width: 900px;" name="Comments" rows="20" cols="100">*123*</textarea>

Would like to use <div> but the code editor seems to strip them out. Something like this: <div style="overflow:auto; height:556px;width:564px;"> formated text here........... </div>

Any Help would be appreciated as I'm exhausted trying to solve this. I am a new user though.

John

-- JohnFrancisLundy - 2010-06-24

Discussion and Answer

Not sure I follow exactly what you'd like to do. TWiki escapes characters deemed dangerous for XSRF exploits, namely <, >, ", ' and %. That means any HTML formatting users enter on a CommentPlugin box will be escaped. You have control over that if you create a custom CommentPlugin template. Specifically, in the output template, turn off encoding of URL parameters, such as %URLPARAM{ "comment" encode="off" }%. There is a trade-off between security and functionality.

See also CommentPlugin, VarURLPARAM, VarENCODE.

See sample custom CommentPlugin template used by this support forum application, SupportCommentTemplate

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-06-24

Hi Peter

The problem I have is not with what I put in the comment box, thats fine. It's trying to get the output into a scrollable area on the same page.

if I could embed this piece of html in the page that the commentplugin is on (this creates a scroll bar) then my problem is solved. but the html page editor seems to strip it out. It didn't strip out html <textarea> tags.

<div style="overflow:auto; height:200px;width:600px;">

My comment output goes here

</div>

-- JohnFrancisLundy - 2010-06-25

Not sure but maybe I need to know how to create templates. I do not have access to file system as I do not know the password, I can only work from the browser is this ok?

-- JohnFrancisLundy - 2010-06-25

You do not need to have shell access to create CommentPlugin templates, it's done in TWiki pages.

<literal>
Enclose HTML you do not want the WYSIWYG editor to change in literal tags like this.
</literal>

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-06-25

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-- PeterThoeny - 2010-08-02

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