Insert & interpret HTML in posts

dcbn

Hello,
thank you for developing this awesome forum software!
Wanted to ask if is there a way to add HTML chunks of code to a post (forum topic), that will be rendered as html at page loading. For example, I have the html code of a table with info, that I can't insert with markdown, but I would add is as plain HTML that would be rendered on page load. For security reasons, it could be used only by groups assigned by admin. Is there a way to implement something like that?
Regards,
Dan

iPurpl3x

dcbn It must be possible to implement an extensions that enables this, but I don't know of anything that already exists. We (at @glowingblue) would also look for such a feature as we need to migrate content from another platform to Flarum and that may include content that can't be formatted as Markdown or BBCode...

SKevo

I don't know any extension that currently has this feature, but I think that there should definitely be one.
The way it would work is that it would add a new BBCode tag such as [HTML] and content inside that tag will be treated as an HTML code.

This extension would need to also blacklist the use of certain tags (which could be configured), because then it could be easily abused (for example, a <script> tag with custom JavaScript could harm everyone who views the page). Because of this, I think that it shouldn't be a core feature, but rather an extension, that would bring more functionality to your forum, and could also be used in iPurpl3x's case.

According to s9e\TextFormatter's "safe HTML", it is possible and I think that many would welcome such extension

dcbn

@luceos from a developer point of view, what you think about this?

dcbn

Fully agree with you guys! So, is anyone up for doing this?

clarkwinkelmann

Everytime I discussed this with a client, it turned out to not be the right solution.

If you have a special type of content, best is to implement it as a TextFormatter tag (can be bbcode or custom), and have the special logic in the template instead of inside the post content. It's also much more flexible to implement access control per-(textformatter)tag instead of a whole HTML block.

dcbn

clarkwinkelmann I found this https://extiverse.com/extension/kevid/flarum-pipetables but seems like it is not working with latest Flarum release. I hope its updated soon, so we can use this kind of tables for now.