Snippets are removing my form tags

(Ryan Archer) #1

Is anyone else experiencing this problem? We are running the latest version of Squiz and we want to use some DRY JS scripts to do repetitive tasks (like toggle hide/show divs in a form page).

 

So we have set the snippet up and everything and then created a new body copy in the page and used the snippet content type. What happens is that this snippet somehow removes the <form> tags from the page I've applied it to (custom form).

 

I've done some testing and found out what causes this, its the comment code. If I use the specific Squiz comment format that hides the comment from the 'view page source' like so:

<!--@@ comment is here @@-->
/*@@ another code comment here @@*/

This is what breaks something in the page and removes out the form tags and god knows what else. Would this be considered a bug? If I use the normal code comment syntax (without the @ symbols) the page/snippet work fine.

 

I'd really like to continue to use the Squiz code comment feature as its nice to keep some comments for the devs only ;)

(Ryan Archer) #2

Update: this is not actually caused by using snippets. This is caused by using the Squiz Matrix comment syntax directly into the raw format bodycopy. Be really good if there was a solution to this as we use this comment syntax quite alot!

 

So whether its using snippets with Squiz Matrix comment code or inserting the comment code straight in - this problem persists in custom form page assets.

(Anthony Ponomarenko) #3

Hi there, I cannot replicate this in Matrix 5.3.2.0. 

 

I just created a Custom Form with a customised Page Contents.

 

In the Page Contents I print the %form_contents% and added <!--@@ comment is here @@-->

 

Is this the proper replication steps?

(Ryan Archer) #4

Yeah you are right. I just tried doing the same thing on another form on another website we host in Squiz Matrix and encountered no issues.

I think it must be something in the design or other nested content that is being affected by the comment syntax. The site that I am having problems with is an intranet behind a firewall.