Invalid HTML error if the content contains special characters (<3)

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Invalid HTML error if the content contains special characters (<3)

Closed this issue a year ago · 2 comments

Hi there,
I tested with the content that contains the heart icon using "<3"
It shows error:
text-clipper.js?v=44260d94:173 Uncaught Error: Invalid HTML: the text <3 <3

Do you have any idea for fixing this?

Thanks!

Answer 1 · 2023-12-22T08:39:28.000Z

I was fixed this by pre-format the content before parse it to clipper.

Answer 2 · 2023-12-22T09:08:56.000Z

Yeah, I would say this is by design, since "<3" should be encoded as <3 to be valid HTML. I suppose things could be made a bit more resilient by implementing the fallbacks that HTML5 specifies for invalid HTML, but I'm afraid that would add a huge amount of complexity to the library.

So I'm closing since you found a workaround. Thanks for the report, it's indeed something to be aware of!