[kupu-dev] kupu filtering "class" attribute from links - solved

[Rick Moore]

Got someone locally to help me out and we solved it, thanks

Rick Moore

Rick Moore wrote:
> One of our web sites (Birds of North America - 
> http://bna.birds.cornell.edu) has over 11,000 articles about birds. The 
> original content was downloaded from an old Fatwire database and 
> inserted directly into the text field of the documents. Each of these 
> articles may contain dozens of bibiliographic references that are 
> supposed to shown in small popup windows when selected. Because of all 
> the religion against the onClick. attribute, we do this using the class 
> attribute on the <a> tag.
>
> This worked fine until recently, then blew up when we started to update 
> the articles for some of the birds. Once the content is changed in kupu, 
> all the class attributes are stripped from the <a> tags and the popup 
> trigger no longer functions.
>
> I posted this on the plone-users web site and ttried looking at 
> kupubasetools,js and kupucontentfilters.js as suggested. I am not a 
> javascript programmer, so I was somewhat bewildered by what I found. It 
> seems that kupubasetools.js specifically allows the "class" attribute 
> for practically everything. But then the code in LinkTool seems to want 
> to strip it out if it wasn't set by the one of the link buttons in the 
> kupu UI.
>
> I need somewhat explicit help in figuring this out. Is there anyone who 
> can tell me where the class attribute gets stripped out of links and how 
> I can fix it.  I have no aversion to upgrading to a later rev of kupu if 
> that will help. And I'd be willing to add a special link button if 
> that's what it takes, just don't know how.
>
> We are using :
> kupu 1.3.9
> Plone 2.5.4
> Zope 2.9.7
> Python 2.4.4
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rick Moore
> Software Architect
> Scientific Knowledge and Education Network
> Cornell Lab of Ornithology
>
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