Why is this non-formatted member profile textarea stripping HTML markup?

Question

I have a custom profile textarea, formatting set to none, with simple HTML markup in it. According to the EE docs, it should be left "as is." But when I view a template pulling this field into it, all markup is stripped out.

I've been dev'ing in EE for years, and I'm pretty familiar with most things, yet this has never happened to me (nor have I ever had the opportunity for it to be an issue--rarely mess with member profiles).

Originally, I'd assumed the default member bio field's formatting was set to "none," but I was experiencing the same issue, so I made a custom bio field. Same thing happens.

There's nothing surrounding the field in the template, it is literally dropped into a div by itself. There's nothing special about the {exp:member:custom} tag pair either, the only parameter I include is the member_id. All other fields display properly (screen_name, and a series of links to social profiles).

Answer 1

UPDATED: You should probably set your custom field to be formatted as "XHTML." Custom member fields are processed by the Typography class, which strips HTML tags when "none" is used (as a security precaution).

Since you have written your own custom field, you can verify my statement by reviewing these functions in the Custom Member Field call chain:

• mod.member.php::custom_profile_data()
• EE_Typography.php::parse_type()
• EE_Typography.php::format_html()

UPDATE: Since XHTML does not appear to work around this for all HTML tags, the following core hack will work for now:

1. Open system/expressionengine/libraries/EE_Typography.php
2. Find function parse_type
3. Locate $str = $this->format_html($str); within the function.
4. Replace that line with this: if ($this->text_format != 'none') { $str = $this->format_html($str); }