Editing HTML content via View HTML Tool converting & to &amp

[Lee]

Hi,

 

I have an issue with the Editor control where copy/pasting content with & into the "View HTML" tool window is converting the & to &amp. I've reproduced this behaviour in a pared down version of one of the jQuery demos here

Steps to reproduce:

- Click the View HTML button and copy/paste the following "<a href="https://clk.omgt1.com/?AID=1749609&PID=32811&UID=--MembershipNumber--" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"

- Click the Update button to save the change

- Click the View HTML button again and you can see that the content has been changed to this (emphasis mine to show the differences) - <a href="https://clk.omgt1.com/?AID=1749609&amp;PID=32811&amp;UID=--MembershipNumber--" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a>

 

I've looked through the documentation and found the option for "encoded" which seems related but setting that to false doesn't fix this problem. Since this problem was originally reported via someone copy/pasting content into the window I've also tried modifying the paste options without success but I can also reproduce this via typing the problematic content in myself so copy/pasting doesn't seem related here.

 

Is there some other option that controls this behaviour or is it a bug with the control?

[Neli]

Hello Lee,

I would suggest you take a look at the serialization and deserialization options. You could create custom rules depending on the scenario. Below is an example:

serialization: {        
          custom: function(html) {           
            return html.replace(/&/g, "&");
          }
}

Here is a Dojo example where this is demonstrated. I hope you will find it helpful. 

Regards,
Neli
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