Rich Text Formatting limitations
Starting with iTop 2.3.0, some fields (for example the case log
entries and the description of Tickets) support rich
text formatting.
This formatting is implemented using HTML markup. This is convenient for displaying in the browser, on-line WYSIWYG editing and importing from HTML emails. However inserting any kind of HTML markup inside a web-based application is not acceptable since it opens the door to all kind of malicious injections. Therefore the HTML markup always passes through a sanitization process before being recorded into the iTop database. This sanitization is based on a white-list for the HTML tag names, attributes and styles.
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Any tag not present in the tags white-list is completely removed (including the sub-tags)
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Any attribute not present in the attributes white-list ( for the considered tag) is removed
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Any style not within the styles white-list is removed
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Last but not least, the only URL schemes accepted (in
hrefandsrcattributes) arehttp:,https:,mailto:anddata:.
style and the
attributes id and class are completely
banned, since they may interfere with the behavior of the
application. HTML
formatting is only supported via the semantic of the tags
(i, strong, etc) and inline CSS styles (via the
style attribute on some tags). Note that at the time
of the writing this rule is consistent with web based email clients
like gmail.Tags and attributes white-list
The following tags are preserved when sanitizing the HTML to be stored in iTop. For each tag, the table below lists the attributes which are allowed.
| HTML Tag | Allowed attributes |
|---|---|
| a | href, name,
style, target, title |
| b | None. |
| big | None. |
| blockquote | style |
| body | None. |
| br | None. |
| caption | None. |
| center | None. |
| cite | None. |
| code | None. |
| code | style |
| del | None. |
| div | style |
| em | None. |
| fieldset | style |
| font | face, color,
style, size |
| h1 | style |
| h2 | style |
| h3 | style |
| h4 | style |
| hr | style |
| html | None. |
| i | None. |
| img | src,style,
alt, title |
| ins | None. |
| kbd | None. |
| legend | style |
| li | style |
| nav | style |
| ol | style |
| p | style |
| pre | None. |
| q | None. |
| s | None. |
| samp | None. |
| section | style |
| small | None. |
| span | style |
| strong | None. |
| table | style, width,
summary, align, border,
cellpadding, cellspacing |
| tbody | style |
| td | style, colspan |
| th | style |
| thead | style |
| tr | style |
| tt | None. |
| u | None. |
| ul | style |
| var | None. |
Styles white-list
The following styles are the only items allowed inside
a style attribute (for the tags for which
style is allowed):
background-color, border,
border-collapse, bordercolor,
cellpadding, cellspacing,
color, float, font,
font-family, font-size,
font-style, height, margin,
padding, text-align,
width
background CSS style property, but preserved
if specified via the more specific background-color
CSS property.