QTextEdit and inserting HTML

[OnyxDragun]

I have a QPlainTextEdit widget that I insert HTML into via moving the cursor along.

What I have noticed is that if there are things that are in < > tags but are NOT valid html elements, then QPlainTextEdit seems to fail.

QString txt = "You have the following commands: <br />read <#/next>, note <title>, remove #, list <from #/last>, marker <#/reset>";

QString txt = "You have the following commands: <br />read <#/next>, note <title>, remove #, list <from #/last>, marker <#/reset>";

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When do the following

ui->txtOutput->moveCursor(QTextCursor::End);
ui->txtOutput->textCursor().insertHtml(txt);
ui->txtOutput->setTextCursor(prevCursor);

ui->txtOutput->moveCursor(QTextCursor::End);
ui->txtOutput->textCursor().insertHtml(txt);
ui->txtOutput->setTextCursor(prevCursor);

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I get the following showing up in the QPlainTextEdit widget


You have the following commands:
read , note

Is is possible to some how.. have QPlainTextEdit ignore non-valid HTML elements? Then again, I'm not 100% sure this is my issue, but it seems iike it so far.

(on a side note, is there a [pre] for things that are not code?)

[wysota]

You want it to ignore invalid html tags but still respect valid ones? If so then you have to preprocess your text and replace all angle brackets with html entities.

[anda_skoa]

See http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qt.html#escape for a helper function that escapes HTML entities

Cheers,
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[OnyxDragun]

See http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qt.html#escape for a helper function that escapes HTML entities

That was the key! Thanks! Now my MUD client supports ansi colours properly as it converts them to html for the QPlainTextEdit.