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Free Republic Supported HTML Tags and Attributes

Miscellaneous Free Republic
Posted on 09/04/2001 00:32:57 PDT by John Robinson

The following is a list of support Free Republic HTML tags and attributes.

The lefthand column is the HTML tag or attribute for the preceeding tag. Tags are listed in bold red uppercase letters. Attributes are listed in black lowercase letters. "Common Attributes" are available on all tags.

The righthand column is the status of the tag or attribute. Possible status values are:

allowed This tag or attribute will not be filtered.

stripped; attribute removed This tag or attribute is disallowed, and will be stripped if HTML Auto Corrected is selected.

pruned; html and contents removed This tag or attribute is disallowed, it and all content until this tag is closed will be removed.

Any tag or attribute not listed is removed; this does not mean unlisted tags and attributes are disallowed, it simply means that the HTML filter does not yet recognize the tag or attribute.

1 Posted on 09/04/2001 00:32:57 PDT by John Robinson
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Thanks for the info.

Looking at all that it is clear -- my HTML skills wouldn't fill a thimble.

2 Posted on 09/04/2001 00:37:14 PDT by TheOtherOne
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Does the system currently support a way to cover the entire background of our page with a background tile? If so, how?

Thanks in advance.

3 Posted on 09/04/2001 00:45:43 PDT by blood
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Hehe; I don't know half of what these tags and attributes do either. Most of them are rarely used. I took a list of tags and attributes from one of the earlier HTML standards, and reviewed each for trouble. Troublesome tags are disallowed. Everything else stays.

4 Posted on 09/04/2001 00:46:03 PDT by John Robinson
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John, I do see your answer to my question on the other thread. Thanks.

5 Posted on 09/04/2001 00:47:39 PDT by blood
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Not currently.

6 Posted on 09/04/2001 00:47:49 PDT by John Robinson
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Is inserting a webpage allowed. The kind of thing freeper named *prism* liked to do?

The page even scrolled.

7 Posted on 09/04/2001 00:56:32 PDT by dennisw
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Not currently.

Okay, I'll stop trying to play with it. It was getting frustrating not knowing why certain things were disappearing. It really helps to have the list of supported tags and attributes; saves time fussing and fussing over a detail. Thanks.

If a full page background is ever supported in the future, I would be pleased, because I have one that really rocks -- it totally transforms my page:

http://history.vineland.org/civwar/images/flagbeigenoisybord.jpg

8 Posted on 09/04/2001 01:03:39 PDT by blood
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That was probably done with an IFRAME.

No, that will not be allowed. It opens up a big mess. I even believe the practice is laden with cross-site scripting vulnerabilities on some brain damaged browsers.

Sometimes I think it would be best if I simply disallowed HTML all together. (DUCKING!)

9 Posted on 09/04/2001 01:04:17 PDT by John Robinson
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Can we no longer turn off the table (for those of us that don't use bookmarks)?

10 Posted on 09/04/2001 01:17:34 PDT by Lizzy W
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Thanks. Yeah it was iframe.

http://mindprism.com/embedscriptlet.html

11 Posted on 09/04/2001 01:22:52 PDT by dennisw
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Ah, if you don't have any bookmarks, I'll remove the column so that your profile can use the full width of the page. Good idea.

12 Posted on 09/04/2001 01:26:14 PDT by John Robinson
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Oh JOY! Thanks a lot :)

13 Posted on 09/04/2001 01:27:07 PDT by Lizzy W
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It is done, easy coding.

14 Posted on 09/04/2001 01:30:43 PDT by John Robinson
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Is there an HTML for Dummies? I need help!

15 Posted on 09/04/2001 01:31:55 PDT by onyx
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Try HTML Bootcamp

17 Posted on 09/04/2001 01:42:13 PDT by John Robinson
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Awwww, you took away all the fun tags! ;)

18 Posted on 09/04/2001 04:38:28 PDT by Garin Hunt
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Thank you! This will dramatically reduce the number of hosed up pages from misused tags.

19 Posted on 09/04/2001 05:17:44 PDT by wienerdog.com
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Hey John, don't know if you got it in your FReepmail, but my offer to write a help page for the search engine still stands. I know a lot of people have trouble using it.

20 Posted on 09/04/2001 05:18:31 PDT by Anthem
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You guys are truely amazing at this stuff. I'm on my knees praising you.

21 Posted on 09/04/2001 05:25:34 PDT by It'salmosttolate
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Please get rid of the marquee tag!

When somebody leaves these tags open, it's a problem.

22 Posted on 09/04/2001 05:30:14 PDT by Physicist (sterner@sterner.hep.upenn.edu)
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Here's a good site for those of you who know what you're doing www.astalavista.com

23 Posted on 09/04/2001 05:34:47 PDT by It'salmosttolate
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Please>Include how to search google in general and specifically for FreeRepublic posts

24 Posted on 09/04/2001 05:46:07 PDT by dennisw
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Can we still do highlighting?

25 Posted on 09/04/2001 06:18:00 PDT by Anthem
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You talkin' about this? ;-)

Blood's "Rockin'" Flag Image

26 Posted on 09/04/2001 06:28:39 PDT by MeeknMing
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... how to search google in general and specifically for FreeRepublic posts.

Open Google and select 'Preferences' to set your own style (I open in a separate window) then 'Advanced' to see the parameters for your search. You can also input
      [dennisw site:www.freerepublic.com]
directly to get your own Self Search. This format works for any site in Google. Google also caches pages, so if they have expired or been deleted and the Google spyder snagged them you can still get the base page, but most of the links will be dead. Be aware that the Google spyder goes from the start to the end of the Internet, so the pages and available info will be two to three or more months behind. Happy hunting.

27 Posted on 09/04/2001 06:33:10 PDT by brityank
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Please get rid of the marquee tag!

Use Nutscrape 4.7 and it won't even bother you.
But then there's blink ... ...

:^)

28 Posted on 09/04/2001 06:36:50 PDT by brityank
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talixoff

31 Posted on 09/04/2001 06:43:11 PDT by VoiceOfBruck
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Try Two!!!!

32 Posted on 09/04/2001 06:43:31 PDT by brityank
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Maybe we can get John to disable italics!

33 Posted on 09/04/2001 06:46:47 PDT by VoiceOfBruck
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Ok.I'm totaly lost here..I was just learning all the other stuff.....grrrrrr.So if I mess up (which I prolly will) bear with me......ty megan

34 Posted on 09/04/2001 06:48:37 PDT by classygreeneyedblonde
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Thanks, John for all that you do. It's truly amazing how advanced we've become on FR since its beginning! You've added self-search, FR mail, search features, profile pages, speed, etc. etc. etc.

We should never complain or whine when a few tags are eliminated on member profile pages in order to resolve security issues.

Thanks again!

35 Posted on 09/04/2001 06:50:46 PDT by Irma
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John,

Is this going to keep that evil disruptor from doing his PC killing thing again?

RS

36 Posted on 09/04/2001 06:54:18 PDT by RikaStrom
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BASE stripped; html removed

NOFRAMES pruned; html and contents removed 
NOLAYER stripped; html removed 
NOSCRIPT pruned; html and contents removed 

37 Posted on 09/04/2001 07:05:50 PDT by supercat
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Good info; I've bookmarked it. On one of the previous HTML threads was a nice post with "off" commands for everything. Is that now gone? It was quite useful at times.

38 Posted on 09/04/2001 07:09:17 PDT by Gumlegs
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Good suggestions, supercat.

BASE HREF=there gives problems, as it screwed up any links underneath; however, I can detect it's use and append a BASE HREF=here at the end of the HTML block.

Speaking of BASE HREF, I will add a BASE HREF=source_url to each article posted that contains a source url; that should go a long way to fix up broken links.

As for the contents, yes, there is no particular reason why they must be pruned. I'm not sure why I chose to prune rather than strip.

39 Posted on 09/04/2001 07:18:27 PDT by John Robinson
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By the way folks, this filter doesn't yet apply to the general forum. That won't happen until next week.

It's currently applied only to FreeRepublic Profiles.

40 Posted on 09/04/2001 07:21:08 PDT by John Robinson
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no fun anymore :-(

41 Posted on 09/04/2001 07:26:28 PDT by sirgawain
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Glad you disallowed the LAYER/NOLAYER tags [at least I think those were the ones]. Several times someone would cut and paste an article containg those tags, which would then be invisible on my Netscape 4.07 browser. There was no way for me to fix it, either, since I couldn't see the [Reply] button. Apparently the entire post was visible to IE users.

Is there any way to check to insure that TABLE tags are closed within a post? If one forgets to do that, the post (and all subsequent posts) become invisible to Netscape. I guess the browser goes on strike until it sees the </TABLE> tag.

43 Posted on 09/04/2001 07:37:32 PDT by snopercod
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Speaking of BASE HREF, I will add a BASE HREF=source_url to each article posted that contains a source url; that should go a long way to fix up broken links.

Damn, now what will I do with my time since I don't have to edit each and every link within a post?!?!?

44 Posted on 09/04/2001 07:39:58 PDT by snopercod
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You failed. Effs up my browser, now I gotta restart.

45 Posted on 09/04/2001 07:43:32 PDT by Cyber Liberty
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what browser?

46 Posted on 09/04/2001 07:57:44 PDT by sirgawain
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John --
Whatever sillygawain did with his 'Mouseover <test>' has clobbered the page for Netscape4.7. IE renders fine, NS dies.

47 Posted on 09/04/2001 07:57:59 PDT by brityank
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your fault for using lamescape.

48 Posted on 09/04/2001 07:59:00 PDT by sirgawain
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Alas, no more Flash movies because of the < OBJECT > tags.

49 Posted on 09/04/2001 08:04:49 PDT by Cultural Jihad
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Beats hell out of Infernal Exploder and it's constant reporting back to Redmond.
Or did you not know about that?

50 Posted on 09/04/2001 08:05:27 PDT by brityank
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What you say!

All Your Marquees Are Belong To Us!

51 Posted on 09/04/2001 08:09:39 PDT by Cultural Jihad
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now I gotta restart

Nah, all you had to do was click on "BACK".

52 Posted on 09/04/2001 08:19:03 PDT by choirboy
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Netscrape. Tru, 'tis my fault, but that's all my corporate masters will allow.

53 Posted on 09/04/2001 08:23:36 PDT by Cyber Liberty
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Yeah, I figured that out.....

54 Posted on 09/04/2001 08:24:27 PDT by Cyber Liberty
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Internet privacy is a joke. Or did you not know about that?

55 Posted on 09/04/2001 08:34:37 PDT by sirgawain
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You mean NUTSCRAPE

56 Posted on 09/04/2001 09:51:14 PDT by Texaggie79
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OH YEAH LMAO. Nutscrape is complete privacy. LMAO!!!!!!

57 Posted on 09/04/2001 09:52:06 PDT by Texaggie79
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Bookmarked for reference ...

btw John, do you use Perl for your cgi? It is exceedingly difficult to strip html out of text even with Perl. I was wondering if you had a clever hack for doing this (one that I could, ahem, borrow?)

58 Posted on 09/04/2001 17:22:33 PDT by fnord
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I second your request!

59 Posted on 09/04/2001 18:47:39 PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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Speaking of BASE HREF, I will add a BASE HREF=source_url to each article posted that contains a source url; that should go a long way to fix up broken links.

How is that going to work if the source of the article uses frames (Like the O C Register and others ) and the source_URL includes the complete identifer for the document?

Ex : http://www.ocregister.com/business/decision00904cci1.shtml

But for the Links and Photos Logos to show correctly I need

< head > < table >< body >< base href=http://www.ocregister.com/ >

ARTICLE HERE

< /table >< /body >

tst!

60 Posted on 09/04/2001 19:01:57 PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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In that case it may not work. If so, you can include your own BASE HREF at the top of the HTML (I'll re-enable BASE HREF.)

61 Posted on 09/05/2001 01:51:57 PDT by John Robinson
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I use HTML::TreeBuilder, you can obtain from CPAN. HTML::TreeBuilder converts HTML into a tree structure, each node is an HTML::Element. I then walk the tree, building a string of filtered HTML.

Perl makes the world go 'round.

62 Posted on 09/05/2001 01:58:46 PDT by John Robinson
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Thanks, I'll check it out when next I get free time.

... just another perl hacker :-)

63 Posted on 09/05/2001 05:09:53 PDT by fnord
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ok!

64 Posted on 09/05/2001 10:23:01 PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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I can't seem to get a link within a page to work. Here is what I've done:

censoring Dr. Laura

The source looks like this:

<a href="http://www.catholicleague.org/catalyst/2000_catalyst/0500_catalyst.html#CENSORING%20Dr.%20LAURA">censoring Dr. Laura</a>

Thanks

65 Posted on 09/07/2001 17:38:46 PDT by Aunt Polgara
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We should never complain or whine when a few tags are eliminated on member profile pages in order to resolve security issues.

But... but... how's that line about giving up freedom in order to gain some security go again...?

(Dang HTML terrorists.)

Hahahaha! Very clever!

68 Posted on 10/14/2001 13:23:27 PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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69 Posted on 10/14/2001 13:29:09 PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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70 Posted on 10/14/2001 13:29:55 PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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71 Posted on 10/14/2001 13:35:08 PDT by tillacum
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72 Posted on 10/14/2001 13:37:11 PDT by tillacum
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