#include <Wt/WText>
Public Member Functions | |
WText (WContainerWidget *parent=0) | |
Construct a text widget with an empty text. | |
WText (const WString &text, WContainerWidget *parent=0) | |
Construct a text widget with given text. | |
WText (const WString &text, TextFormat textFormat, WContainerWidget *parent=0) | |
Construct a text widget with given text and format. | |
const WString & | text () const |
Returns the text. | |
bool | setText (const WString &text) |
Set the text. | |
bool | setTextFormat (TextFormat format) |
Set the textFormat. | |
TextFormat | textFormat () const |
Returns the textFormat. | |
void | setWordWrap (bool wordWrap) |
Configure word wrapping. | |
bool | wordWrap () const |
Returns whether the widget may break lines. | |
virtual void | refresh () |
Refresh the widget. |
The text is provided through a WString, which may either hold a literal text, or a key to localized text which is looked up in locale dependent XML files (see WString::tr()).
Use setTextFormat() to configure the textFormat of the text. The default textFormat is Wt::XHTMLText, which allows XHMTL markup to be included in the text. Tags and attributes that indicate "active" content are not allowed and stripped out, to avoid security risks exposed by JavaScript such as the common web-based Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) malicious attack. XSS is the situation where one user of your web application is able to execute a script in another user's browser while your application only intended to display a message entered by the mailicious user to the other user. To defeat this attack, Wt assumes that content in a WText is intended to be passive, and not contain any scripting elements.
The Wt::PlainText format will display the text literally (escaping any HTML special characters).
In some situations, Wt::XHTMLUnsafeText may be useful to explicitly allow scripting content. Like XHTMLText, it allows XHTML markup, but it also allows potentially dangerous tags and attributes. Use this if you're sure that a user cannot interfere with the text set, and XHTMLText is too limiting.
The widget corresponds to an HTML <span>
tag or an HTML <div>
depending on whether the widget is inline. WText is by default inline, unless the XHTML contents starts with an element such as <div>
, <h>
or <p>
that is displayed as a block, in which case the widget will also display as a block.
Usage examples:
Wt::WContainerWidget *container = new Wt::WContainerWidget(); // display an XHTML text: container->addWidget(new Wt::WText("Hello <i>dear</i> visitor.")); // display a plain text: container->addWidget(new Wt::WText("The <i> tag displays italic text.", Wt::PlainText)); // display an XHTML fragment from a resource bundle: container->addWidget(new Wt::WText(tr("introduction")));
Wt::WText::WText | ( | const WString & | text, | |
WContainerWidget * | parent = 0 | |||
) |
Construct a text widget with given text.
The textFormat is set to Wt::XHTMLText, unless the text
is literal (not created using WString::tr()) and it could not be parsed as valid XML. In that case the textFormat is set to Wt::PlainText.
Therefore, if you wish to use Wt::XHTMLText, but cannot be sure about text
being valid XML, you should verify that the textFormat() is Wt::XHTMLText after construction.
The XML parser will silently discard malicious tags and attributes for literal Wt::XHTMLText text.
Wt::WText::WText | ( | const WString & | text, | |
TextFormat | textFormat, | |||
WContainerWidget * | parent = 0 | |||
) |
Construct a text widget with given text and format.
If textFormat is Wt::XHTMLText and text
is not literal (not created using WString::tr()), then if the text
could not be parsed as valid XML, the textFormat is changed to Wt::PlainText.
Therefore, if you wish to use Wt::XHTMLText, but cannot be sure about text
being valid XML, you should verify that the textFormat() is Wt::XHTMLText after construction.
The XML parser will silently discard malicious tags and attributes for literal Wt::XHTMLText text.
const WString& Wt::WText::text | ( | ) | const [inline] |
Returns the text.
When a literal XHTMLFormatted text was set, this may differ from the text that was set since malicious tags/attributes may have been stripped.
bool Wt::WText::setText | ( | const WString & | text | ) |
Set the text.
When the current format is Wt::XHTMLText, and text
is literal (not created using WString::tr()), it is parsed using an XML parser which discards malicious tags and attributes silently. When the parser encounters an XML parse error, the textFormat is changed to Wt::PlainText.
Returns whether the text could be set using the current textFormat. A return value of false
indicates that the textFormat was changed in order to be able to accept the new text.
bool Wt::WText::setTextFormat | ( | TextFormat | format | ) |
Set the textFormat.
The textFormat controls how the string should be interpreted: either as plain text, which is displayed literally, or as XHTML-markup.
When changing the textFormat to Wt::XHTMLText, and the current text is literal (not created using WString::tr()), the current text is parsed using an XML parser which discards malicious tags and attributes silently. When the parser encounters an XML parse error, the textFormat is left unchanged, and this method returns false.
Returns whether the textFormat could be set for the current text.
The default format is Wt::XHTMLText.
TextFormat Wt::WText::textFormat | ( | ) | const [inline] |
void Wt::WText::setWordWrap | ( | bool | wordWrap | ) |
Configure word wrapping.
When wordWrap
is true
, the widget may break lines, creating a multi-line text. When wordWrap
is false
, the text will displayed on a single line, unless the text contains end-of-lines (for Wt::PlainText) or <br /> tags or other block-level tags (for Wt::XHTMLText).
The default value is true
.
bool Wt::WText::wordWrap | ( | ) | const [inline] |
void Wt::WText::refresh | ( | ) | [virtual] |
Refresh the widget.
The refresh method is invoked when the locale is changed using WApplication::setLocale() or when the user hit the refresh button.
The widget must actualize its contents in response.
Reimplemented from Wt::WWebWidget.