Thanks, Anthony. Issue submitted.
On Sunday, May 17, 2015 at 10:21:31 PM UTC-5, Anthony wrote:
>
> The problem is that there is an inconsistency with the escaping of regular
> strings vs. LazyT objects when serializing HTML helpers. When helpers are
> serialized, all attribute values are passed to gluon.html.xmlescape. In
> xmlescape, regular strings are ultimately passed to cgi.escape with the
> "quote" argument set to True. However, LazyT objects are not passed to
> cgi.escape but instead have their .xml() method called, and that method
> calls cgi.escape with the "quote" argument set to False. As a result,
> double quotes are not converted to """. This creates a problem because
> when helpers are serialized, all attributes are wrapped with double quotes,
> so you cannot have double quotes within the attribute unless they are HTML
> encoded. This should probably be considered a bug. Perhaps xmlescape should
> check for LazyT objects and instead of calling the .xml() method, treat it
> as a string object.
>
> For now, the workaround is to force the conversion of the LazyT object to
> a string before passing it as a helper attribute:
>
> textarea = TEXTAREA(_placeholder=str(my_text), ...)
>
> Maybe submit a github issue about this and link to this post.
>
> Anthony
>
> On Sunday, May 17, 2015 at 12:29:00 PM UTC-4, Spokes wrote:
>>
>> I'm attempting to include a relatively lengthy passage of text in a
>> textarea placeholder; the text contains some terms within double-quotes,
>> and the text string is passed to current.T(). The problem is that
>> everything following the first double-quote gets truncated. For example,
>> let's say this is the text sample, a print statement, for debugging, and
>> the textarea code:
>>
>> my_text = current.T('this is some \"text\" which contains quotes' \
>> + 'the text continues on the next line')
>> print "\nmy_text:", my_text
>> textarea = TEXTAREA(_placeholder = my_text, ...)
>>
>> The output of the print statement will be the full text string. However,
>> the placeholder within the textarea will be "this is some". Any idea as to
>> what's going on here, and how to fix it? Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
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