Do you allow HTML editing in forum posts?

[Wrong]

... or do you only let your users edit their posts through BBCode?

I used to allow HTML until some troublesome users started messing around with the coding and would make some threads inaccessible using closing tags (like writing a post including '</body>'). There were also hackers who used iframes to link to pages that had malicious scripts. We had to ban it.

 

[crazycroc]

Isn't there a way to post HTML without that via automatic replacing of character codes?

 

[apriapism]

I've never giving my users that option before. I'd maybe consider giving it a try sometime.

 

[Victor Leigh]

Never thought of allowing HTML in posts. I thought that's the kind of thing which can really mess up a page. Right? Bbcodes are good enough to add some extra flourish to a post.

 

[Wrong]

Never thought of allowing HTML in posts. I thought that's the kind of thing which can really mess up a page. Right? Bbcodes are good enough to add some extra flourish to a post.

Yeah, I don't recommend it, but I did use to allow it. It was easier to post articles straight from the source that way, but if you have enough BBCodes to edit messages or a WYSIWYG editor, then you probably don't need to enable HTML at all.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Heck no. You covered the reasons for this in the original post. If someone needs to post code, they can do so using the

[code]

tags. HTML in posts is ALWAYS going to cause problems.

 

[LindaKay]

I would never allow HTML coding on a forum. Although it would be a nice feature for some, it boils down to the old "some bad apples spoil it for the rest of the bunch." Besides, you can do pretty much anything you want with BBCode anyway, so what's the point? The risk isn't worth the reward to me.

 

[djarum1]

Nope. It's kind of a shame, too. It would be cool to be able to trust that everyone wouldn't abuse that, but the sad fact is, there's no way to guarantee that.

 

[tejas41]

No, I am allowing HTML editor to editing in forum posts.

 

[cyberian]

No. I know somebody would simply abuse it and I'd have to correct their damage, and I'd have to take it away within a day of its addition.

 

[Soliloquy]

BBcode should be more than sufficient. Most users wouldn't really know what to do with HTML anyway.