Pro Fields Table: HTML being removed from text field

[DrQuincy]

I have a Table field that I am using for some spam filtering. I have one field in the table set as a Text field. If I enter <a href=" and save it becomes blank regardless of any text formatters applied.

It's weird because if I do the same with a Text field that is not part of a Table field it works fine. And within the Table field if I change it from Text to Textarea, it works.

Any ideas why?

Thanks.

[Jan Romero]

Unfortunately I believe this is hardcoded behaviour (see _sanitizeValue() in FieldtypeTable.module).

As you noticed, it doesn’t strip tags from textareas, so maybe switch to that?

It should be quick work to add this as a per-column option like maxLength. Perhaps worth suggesting it to Ryan in the ProFields forum?

[DrQuincy]

Thanks for confirming.

Yes, I am currently using a Textarea rows="1" and removing line returns on save so it effectively does the same thing.

[Jan Romero]

If you want to modify the Module you could replace the original switch case in FieldtypeTable.module with this:

case 'text':
	$maxLength = empty($col['settings']['maxLength']) ? 2048 : (int) $col['settings']['maxLength'];
    $stripTags = empty($col['settings']['stripTags']) ? true : ($col['settings']['stripTags'] === 'false' ? false : true);
	$v = strlen("$v") ? $sanitizer->text($v, array('maxLength' => $maxLength, 'stripTags' => $stripTags)) : null;
	break;

That will allow you to specify stripTags=false on text colums.