SID-02014: Comment plugin places visible <br /> in displayed comment

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.3.2	Perl version:
Category:	CommentPlugin	Server OS:	AIX	Last update:	11 years ago

So I am using TWiki version 4.3.2 I have placed the comment plugin in the page, but when a user hits the enter key for a line break in their comment it puts in a literal line break in the display. It places a <br /> in raw mode.

I am using the comment like this:

%COMMENT{type="tableprepend"}%

<br /> //This is what the comment actually inserts = <br />

The only way I can deal with this now is to edit out the line break later but this is not idea. Any idea how to handle it?

-- Greg Neugebauer - 2015-01-23

Discussion and Answer

The "tableprepend" type is meant for TWiki tables. TWiki tables cannot handle newlines in table cells, hence the br tag. Use another type. See docs at CommentPluginTemplate.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2015-01-24

Thanks, but when I tested this on the twiki.org example page it handled the break properly: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/CommentPluginExamples#tableprepend

It seems if the "tableprepend" is listed in the CommentPluginTemplate we would expected to work. Or are you doing something with URLPARAM on that page?

-- Greg Neugebauer - 2015-01-26

I tried this and it failed to take out the break: %COMMENT{ "%URLPARAM{ newline="$br" }%" type="tableprepend" }%

Also failing was: %COMMENT{ "%URLPARAM{ encode="off" }%" type="tableprepend" }% and %COMMENT{ "%URLPARAM{ encode="html" }%" type="tableprepend" }%

-- Greg Neugebauer - 2015-01-26

As I mentioned before, do not use type="tableprepend" if you do not want the br tags. There are other types, such as type="above" or type="below".

-- Peter Thoeny - 2015-01-27

My user wants what the type="tableprepend" does, and none of the other types work close enough. Specifically none of them "preappend"

-- Greg Neugebauer - 2015-01-27

You can create a new type that does what you want. Consult CommentPlugin for details, or hire one of the TWikiConsultants.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2015-01-27

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