The way it works is that
<b/> and some other HTML elements can be updated by the user. To enable this, I load the webpage and, with JQuery, convert all those elements to
<textarea/> elements. Once they the content of the text area is changed, I apply the change to the original elements and send it to a Python script to store the new content.
The problem is that I'm finding that different browsers change the original HTML.
- How do you get around this issue?
- What Python libraries do you use?
- What techniques or application designs do you use to avoid or overcome this issue?
The problems I found are:
- IE removes the quotes around
idattributes. For example,
- Firefox removes the backslash from the line breaks:
- Some websites have very specific display technicalities, so an insertion of a simple "\n"(which IE does) can affect the display of a website. Example: changing
<img class='headingpic' /><div id="maincontent">to
<img class='headingpic'/>\n <div id="maincontent">inserts a vertical gap in IE.
The things I have unsuccessfully tried to overcome these issues:
- Using either JQuery or Python to remove all
<br>etc. But this fails because I get different patterns in IE, sometimes a
∙\n, sometimes a
- In a Python, parse the new HTML, extract the new text/content, insert it into the old HTML so the elements and format never change, just the content. This is very difficult and seems to be overkill.