Changing Symbol

Started by Midnight Beat August 8th, 2007 7:33 AM
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Midnight Beat

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In my coustom user title there is supposed to be a < instead of &lt;. Now this isn't a huge deal I can change it back but I have seen this on other peoples user bars too. Any idea on why it happens?

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You did put a normal "<" in right? It shouldn't be changing like that, it's just a normal title and nothing for it to change.
But if you want I might be able to fix it where it'll work but you'll lose the "<" when you change your title. (But first, if you are putting in "&lt;" and not "<" then try it that way).

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vB replaces any HTML tags in the custom usertitles by default, and since < and > are HTML tag indicators, it might've killed them. Though then your browser should display the "&lt;" as "<", because that is a replacement that changes the tag indicator to normal text.
Might've been a bug in your browser or the vB software, as far as I can see it's working for you now, if you can reproduce it, please tell us your browser and what exactly you insert in the field.
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Midnight Beat

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Ok so it's back.:surprised: I was editing my friend list and after I saved it showed up. I'm using Safari and I'm putting in exactly this "<-Don't mess with the sword".

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It's pretty normal and Scizz explained why, but i'll just add, it's a bug in vB, since it replace < to &lt; and then changed the &lt; to &amp;lt; so that needs fixing, you need to fix the replacing of & in the very beginning and then the < should be replaced with &lt;

So first you str_replace() on the title to change & to &amp; and then change all the other stuff, in the order.
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