[Phpmyadmin-devel] html entitities in messages

[Marc Delisle]

Rabus wrote:

> Hi Marc & list,
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Delisle
> 
>>there are a few html entities like " and  . Please
>>note that in FAQ 7.2 we discourage the use of those.
>>
>>Do we absolutely need the ones that are currently in english-iso?
>>
>>
> 
> We do, indeed.
> According to the XHTML specification, we M-U-S-T use entities for some
> specific characters:
> 
> " for "
> & for &
> < for <
> > for >
> 
> The   entity (nbsp = non-breaking space) avoids line feeds at ist
> position, so it should only be used for this intention.
> 
> By the way, FAQ 7.2 says:
> 
>   "With html entities, the text on buttons would not display correctly."
> 
> This is nonsense because the botton labels are stored in attributes and
> entities are allowed there. The problem with the entities are the JS
> messages that are defined inside a <script> tag. There, HTML entities
> would not get parsed.



Ok I will clarify in the doc.

Marc