Entry titles (in the control panel) should support the <wbr> tag

[nathanvanbakel]

Description

When using a longer word in a title I would like to inform the browser of a possible breaking point use a <wbr> tag.
However, when I use the <wbr> tag I get an error message:

This field can only contain the following HTML tags: b, cite, code, del, em, i, ins, markspan, strong, sub, sup. If you want to use angle brackets < in your text, but not HTML please try &lt; to replace < and &gt; to replace >.

Solution

I would like the title field to accept the <wbr> tag.

Example

Supercalifragilistic<wbr>expialidocious

Alternatives

Don't use the title field - use a custom field instead.
Don't use the control panel - use a custom build entry form instead.

What about...

Using the title of an entry is quite excellent in the <title>Supercalifragilistic<wbr>expialidocious</title>
But we wouldn't want those tags visible in the page title. This means the site creator needs to add extra code to remove it. Either using an addon (striptags) or by using the build in php functionality.

• I am capable and would like to work on implementation of this feature if it is considered.

[intoeetive]

It looks like only formatting tags are accepted for titles, and not the line breaks.

@robinsowell @ajohnson do you think <br> and <wbr> should be allowed in entry titles or not? Allowing those would also have implication of added line breaks in CP Entries table

[robinsowell]

Hrm. Well his 'What about' is dead on, but since it applies to tags we already allow- bold, etc- not an impediment.

I would tend to prefer to leave that to our design as far as the cp goes, though. I can see it causing issues if/when we change things up or have certain expectations or whatever. So- totally defer to @ajohnson . It's one I can definitely see the pros/cons.

[ajohnson]

@intoeetive @robinsowell I can definitely see the use case here.

As far as the CP goes, I'm assuming adding a <wbr> or <br> tag to an entry title would simply display those tags as part of the title anywhere entry titles are displayed in the CP, similar to how a title's <b> tag is currently displayed in the CP:

If that's the case then we shouldn't have much to worry about by honoring <wbr> and <br> tags in entry titles. They'll be displayed as tags in the CP (without rendering their formatting), but on the front-end the formatting of those tags will be rendered.

But it does seem odd that line breaks are not currently included in the list of available tags. That feels like a deliberate decision made at some point in EE's history.

@TomJaeger Any reason (historical or otherwise) you can think of for not implementing line breaks?

[intoeetive]

As per @ajohnson we're fine adding <br> and <wbr> to allowed tags list for titles.

@nathanvanbakel please feel free to submit a PR for this