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HTML Text area and supporting all tags



With the new text area in 6.0 it is possible to have rich html layouts and using javascript and libraries like jquery you can quickly build a great User Experience

However by default in the new text area all html tags are not allowed.
This is a precautionary step and basically only allows html tags that are considered safe.

Though I do not have a list of tags that are allowed or not, in case where you really need to use some of the disallowed tags you can allow so.

Please use this option carefully, since there may be security implications to this.
Some starting article about HTML Sanitization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_sanitization

But here are the steps needed to prevent sanitization check

You need to be an administrator to do so.

1. Start the Administration Manager (Tools menu > Administration Manager).
2. Select the Preferences tab.
3. Select a group on the left pane. Use the Everyone group to set this for all users.
4. Click the Edit button in the lower right corner to edit preferences.
5. Expand TextArea > TextAreaPreferences.
6. Set the PerformHtmlSanitation preference to 'false' to disable the HTML Sanitizer function.

7. Click the OK button to save the values.
8. Restart spotfire professional to have it commit and take effect.

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