Quotes and Tags in module parameters

[rogerco]

Tearing my hair out over this. I need to be able to save a string that is a fragment of html in a parameter (for a module, but I imagine it would be the same for a component)
So after much experimentation in the module xml I have:

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<field name='foo' type='text' size='40' default='<div style="position:relative;' label='foo Label' description='Foo description' />

Note I am using single quotes around the values here; that is legal xml and works ok. I've tried using double quotes in which case I can replace the " with a " but you can not include < in the string or the xml parser barfs.
So the default value for foo should be

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<div style="position:relative;

This works ok for installation and the default value is correctly displayed with the < and " chars in the module setup.
However when the module is saved the < (or <) is stripped off and a spurious extra 'matching' double quote is added at the end of the string.
So what you get back is

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div style="position:relative;"

The same happens if the default value is blank and you enter

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<div style="position:relative;

in the parameter field. It comes back without the < and with an extra " added on the end.
Help please: What syntax will allow parameters containing html tags and unmatched double quotes to be correctly saved?
Or will Joomla simply not allow html in parameters? And where is the spurious extra double quote at the end coming from - I don't want it.

Thans
RogerCO

[andypooz]

How about

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default='\<div style=\'position:relative;'

Worth a shot?
If not, check the datatype of the parameter for the module you're using and see if you can change it to allow raw.
Andy

[rogerco]

Thanks Andy, but sadly not
Entering

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\<div style=\"display:table-row;

in the parameter value as you suggest once the module is installed returns

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\iv style=\"display:table-row;

so it has stripped off an extra character (the d as well as the <) - most odd, and the double quote doesn't get escaped - although it also doesn't get doubled.

I guess you can see this behaviour in any text parameter field for any module or component. If you enter a string containing a tag then when you save the parameters (Save and Close) and go back to reload them you will find that the < has been removed and if the string contains an odd number of quotes then an extra one is added at the end.

Escaping with a backslash doesn't work. It may be that this is deliberate as some subtle security effect. I could live without the < but having and extra quote added at the end of the string is a real pain.

Simplest way to see it is to put the string in the Note field which appears for all modules at the bottom right of the setup parameter. The adding of an extra quote only seems to happen if the string starts with <div or possibly any valid looking but incomplete tag.

RogerCO

[mixahlos]

I have this in my xml file :

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<option value="myicon">MOD_MYMOD_MYMOD_ICON1</option>

and this in my language ini file :

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MOD_MYMOD_MYMOD_ICON1="<span class=\"icon-1\"><span class=\"icon-1-2\">"

and works fine for me