OOUI PHP: No simple way to add HTML-escaped text to a Element
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	matmarex
	Oct 26 2014, 11:21 PM

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There's no simple way to add HTML-escaped text to a Element. OoUiTag::appendContent() doesn't escape strings.

I say we should add a appendText() method and use it where applicable.

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Severity: major

Status	Assigned	Task
Open	None	T49145 Formally deprecate jQuery UI after we've stopped using jQuery UI in extensions and core
Open	None	T100270 Replace use of jQuery UI and MW UI with OOUI across all Wikimedia-deployed extensions and core
Resolved	matmarex	T74715 Convert some MW core special pages to OOUI
Resolved	• TrevorParscal	T74714 Provide the OOUI PHP module inside MW core
Resolved	• TrevorParscal	T74713 Get OOUI PHP to be good to go
Resolved	matmarex	T74542 OOUI PHP: No simple way to add HTML-escaped text to a Element

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to High.Nov 22 2014, 3:52 AM

• bzimport added a project: OOUI.

• bzimport set Reference to bz72542.

We currently have some bugs where JS and PHP escape things differently because of this.

gerritadmin wrote:

Change 169106 had a related patch set uploaded by Bartosz Dziewoński:
OoUiTag: HTML-escape everything by default

gerritadmin wrote:

Change 169106 merged by jenkins-bot:
OoUiTag: HTML-escape everything by default