Add support for MD / HTML in room topics (#8215)

* Add support for MD / HTML in room topics

Setting MD / HTML supported:
- /topic command
- Room settings overlay
- Space settings overlay

Display of MD / HTML supported:
- /topic command
- Room header
- Space home

Based on extensible events as defined in [MSC1767]

Fixes: element-hq/element-web#5180
Signed-off-by: Johannes Marbach <johannesm@element.io>

[MSC1767]: matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals#1767

* Fix build error

* Add comment to explain origin of styles

Co-authored-by: Travis Ralston <travpc@gmail.com>

* Empty commit to retrigger build

* Fix import grouping

* Fix useTopic test

* Add tests for HtmlUtils

* Add slash command test

* Add further serialize test

* Fix ternary formatting

Co-authored-by: Travis Ralston <travpc@gmail.com>

* Add blank line

Co-authored-by: Travis Ralston <travpc@gmail.com>

* Properly mock SettingsStore access

* Remove trailing space

* Assert on HTML content and add test for plain text in HTML parameter

* Appease the linter

* Fix JSDoc comment

* Fix toEqual call formatting

* Repurpose test for literal HTML case

* Empty commit to fix CI

Co-authored-by: Travis Ralston <travpc@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Travis Ralston <travisr@matrix.org>

res/css/_common.scss

@@ -304,6 +304,73 @@ legend {
     overflow-y: auto;
 }
 
+// Styles copied/inspired by GroupLayout, ReplyTile, and EventTile variants.
+.mx_Dialog .markdown-body {
+    font-family: inherit !important;
+    white-space: normal !important;
+    line-height: inherit !important;
+    color: inherit; // inherit the colour from the dark or light theme by default (but not for code blocks)
+    font-size: $font-14px;
+
+    pre,
+    code {
+        font-family: $monospace-font-family !important;
+        background-color: $codeblock-background-color;
+    }
+
+    // this selector wrongly applies to code blocks too but we will unset it in the next one
+    code {
+        white-space: pre-wrap; // don't collapse spaces in inline code blocks
+    }
+
+    pre code {
+        white-space: pre; // we want code blocks to be scrollable and not wrap
+
+        >* {
+            display: inline;
+        }
+    }
+
+    pre {
+        // have to use overlay rather than auto otherwise Linux and Windows
+        // Chrome gets very confused about vertical spacing:
+        // https://github.com/vector-im/vector-web/issues/754
+        overflow-x: overlay;
+        overflow-y: visible;
+
+        &::-webkit-scrollbar-corner {
+            background: transparent;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+.mx_Dialog .markdown-body h1,
+.mx_Dialog .markdown-body h2,
+.mx_Dialog .markdown-body h3,
+.mx_Dialog .markdown-body h4,
+.mx_Dialog .markdown-body h5,
+.mx_Dialog .markdown-body h6 {
+    font-family: inherit !important;
+    color: inherit;
+}
+
+/* Make h1 and h2 the same size as h3. */
+.mx_Dialog .markdown-body h1,
+.mx_Dialog .markdown-body h2 {
+    font-size: 1.5em;
+    border-bottom: none !important; // override GFM
+}
+
+.mx_Dialog .markdown-body a {
+    color: $accent-alt;
+}
+
+.mx_Dialog .markdown-body blockquote {
+    border-left: 2px solid $blockquote-bar-color;
+    border-radius: 2px;
+    padding: 0 10px;
+}
+
 .mx_Dialog_fixedWidth {
     width: 60vw;
     max-width: 704px;

res/css/views/rooms/_RoomHeader.scss

@@ -166,6 +166,12 @@ limitations under the License.
     display: -webkit-box;
 }
 
+.mx_RoomHeader_topic .mx_Emoji {
+    // Undo font size increase to prevent vertical cropping and ensure the same size
+    // as in plain text emojis
+    font-size: inherit;
+}
+
 .mx_RoomHeader_avatar {
     flex: 0;
     margin: 0 6px 0 7px;

src/HtmlUtils.tsx

@@ -323,6 +323,18 @@ const composerSanitizeHtmlParams: IExtendedSanitizeOptions = {
     },
 };
 
+// reduced set of allowed tags to avoid turning topics into Myspace
+const topicSanitizeHtmlParams: IExtendedSanitizeOptions = {
+    ...sanitizeHtmlParams,
+    allowedTags: [
+        'font', // custom to matrix for IRC-style font coloring
+        'del', // for markdown
+        'a', 'sup', 'sub',
+        'b', 'i', 'u', 'strong', 'em', 'strike', 'br', 'div',
+        'span',
+    ],
+};
+
 abstract class BaseHighlighter<T extends React.ReactNode> {
     constructor(public highlightClass: string, public highlightLink: string) {
     }
@@ -606,6 +618,57 @@ export function bodyToHtml(content: IContent, highlights: string[], opts: IOpts
         </span>;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Turn a room topic into html
+ * @param topic plain text topic
+ * @param htmlTopic optional html topic
+ * @param ref React ref to attach to any React components returned
+ * @param allowExtendedHtml whether to allow extended HTML tags such as headings and lists
+ * @return The HTML-ified node.
+ */
+export function topicToHtml(
+    topic: string,
+    htmlTopic?: string,
+    ref?: React.Ref<HTMLSpanElement>,
+    allowExtendedHtml = false,
+): ReactNode {
+    if (!SettingsStore.getValue("feature_html_topic")) {
+        htmlTopic = null;
+    }
+
+    let isFormattedTopic = !!htmlTopic;
+    let topicHasEmoji = false;
+    let safeTopic = "";
+
+    try {
+        topicHasEmoji = mightContainEmoji(isFormattedTopic ? htmlTopic : topic);
+
+        if (isFormattedTopic) {
+            safeTopic = sanitizeHtml(htmlTopic, allowExtendedHtml ? sanitizeHtmlParams : topicSanitizeHtmlParams);
+            if (topicHasEmoji) {
+                safeTopic = formatEmojis(safeTopic, true).join('');
+            }
+        }
+    } catch {
+        isFormattedTopic = false; // Fall back to plain-text topic
+    }
+
+    let emojiBodyElements: ReturnType<typeof formatEmojis>;
+    if (!isFormattedTopic && topicHasEmoji) {
+        emojiBodyElements = formatEmojis(topic, false);
+    }
+
+    return isFormattedTopic ?
+        <span
+            key="body"
+            ref={ref}
+            dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: safeTopic }}
+            dir="auto"
+        /> : <span key="body" ref={ref} dir="auto">
+            { emojiBodyElements || topic }
+        </span>;
+}
+
 /**
  * Linkifies the given string. This is a wrapper around 'linkifyjs/string'.
  *

src/SlashCommands.tsx

@@ -25,14 +25,15 @@ import * as ContentHelpers from 'matrix-js-sdk/src/content-helpers';
 import { Element as ChildElement, parseFragment as parseHtml } from "parse5";
 import { logger } from "matrix-js-sdk/src/logger";
 import { IContent } from 'matrix-js-sdk/src/models/event';
+import { MRoomTopicEventContent } from 'matrix-js-sdk/src/@types/topic';
 import { SlashCommand as SlashCommandEvent } from "@matrix-org/analytics-events/types/typescript/SlashCommand";
 
 import { MatrixClientPeg } from './MatrixClientPeg';
 import dis from './dispatcher/dispatcher';
 import { _t, _td, ITranslatableError, newTranslatableError } from './languageHandler';
 import Modal from './Modal';
 import MultiInviter from './utils/MultiInviter';
-import { linkifyAndSanitizeHtml } from './HtmlUtils';
+import { linkifyElement, topicToHtml } from './HtmlUtils';
 import QuestionDialog from "./components/views/dialogs/QuestionDialog";
 import WidgetUtils from "./utils/WidgetUtils";
 import { textToHtmlRainbow } from "./utils/colour";
@@ -66,6 +67,7 @@ import { XOR } from "./@types/common";
 import { PosthogAnalytics } from "./PosthogAnalytics";
 import { ViewRoomPayload } from "./dispatcher/payloads/ViewRoomPayload";
 import VoipUserMapper from './VoipUserMapper';
+import { htmlSerializeFromMdIfNeeded } from './editor/serialize';
 import { leaveRoomBehaviour } from "./utils/leave-behaviour";
 
 // XXX: workaround for https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/31816
@@ -463,7 +465,8 @@ export const Commands = [
         runFn: function(roomId, args) {
             const cli = MatrixClientPeg.get();
             if (args) {
-                return success(cli.setRoomTopic(roomId, args));
+                const html = htmlSerializeFromMdIfNeeded(args, { forceHTML: false });
+                return success(cli.setRoomTopic(roomId, args, html));
             }
             const room = cli.getRoom(roomId);
             if (!room) {
@@ -472,14 +475,19 @@ export const Commands = [
                 );
             }
 
-            const topicEvents = room.currentState.getStateEvents('m.room.topic', '');
-            const topic = topicEvents && topicEvents.getContent().topic;
-            const topicHtml = topic ? linkifyAndSanitizeHtml(topic) : _t('This room has no topic.');
+            const content: MRoomTopicEventContent = room.currentState.getStateEvents('m.room.topic', '')?.getContent();
+            const topic = !!content
+                ? ContentHelpers.parseTopicContent(content)
+                : { text: _t('This room has no topic.') };
+
+            const ref = e => e && linkifyElement(e);
+            const body = topicToHtml(topic.text, topic.html, ref, true);
 
             Modal.createTrackedDialog('Slash Commands', 'Topic', InfoDialog, {
                 title: room.name,
-                description: <div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: topicHtml }} />,
+                description: <div ref={ref}>{ body }</div>,
                 hasCloseButton: true,
+                className: "markdown-body",
             });
             return success();
         },
@@ -1333,11 +1341,10 @@ interface ICmd {
 }
 
 /**
- * Process the given text for /commands and return a bound method to perform them.
+ * Process the given text for /commands and returns a parsed command that can be used for running the operation.
  * @param {string} input The raw text input by the user.
- * @return {null|function(): Object} Function returning an object with the property 'error' if there was an error
- * processing the command, or 'promise' if a request was sent out.
- * Returns null if the input didn't match a command.
+ * @return {ICmd} The parsed command object.
+ * Returns an empty object if the input didn't match a command.
  */
 export function getCommand(input: string): ICmd {
     const { cmd, args } = parseCommandString(input);

src/components/views/elements/RoomTopic.tsx

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ import MatrixClientContext from "../../../contexts/MatrixClientContext";
 import AccessibleButton from "./AccessibleButton";
 import { Linkify } from "./Linkify";
 import TooltipTarget from "./TooltipTarget";
+import { topicToHtml } from "../../../HtmlUtils";
 
 interface IProps extends React.HTMLProps<HTMLDivElement> {
     room?: Room;
@@ -44,6 +45,7 @@ export default function RoomTopic({
     const ref = useRef<HTMLDivElement>();
 
     const topic = useTopic(room);
+    const body = topicToHtml(topic?.text, topic?.html, ref);
 
     const onClick = useCallback((e: React.MouseEvent<HTMLDivElement>) => {
         props.onClick?.(e);
@@ -62,6 +64,7 @@ export default function RoomTopic({
     useDispatcher(dis, (payload) => {
         if (payload.action === Action.ShowRoomTopic) {
             const canSetTopic = room.currentState.maySendStateEvent(EventType.RoomTopic, client.getUserId());
+            const body = topicToHtml(topic?.text, topic?.html, ref, true);
 
             const modal = Modal.createDialog(InfoDialog, {
                 title: room.name,
@@ -74,7 +77,7 @@ export default function RoomTopic({
                             }
                         }}
                     >
-                        { topic }
+                        { body }
                     </Linkify>
                     { canSetTopic && <AccessibleButton
                         kind="primary_outline"
@@ -101,7 +104,7 @@ export default function RoomTopic({
     >
         <TooltipTarget label={_t("Click to read topic")} alignment={Alignment.Bottom} ignoreHover={ignoreHover}>
             <Linkify>
-                { topic }
+                { body }
             </Linkify>
         </TooltipTarget>
     </div>;

src/components/views/room_settings/RoomProfileSettings.tsx

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import Field from "../elements/Field";
 import { mediaFromMxc } from "../../../customisations/Media";
 import AccessibleButton from "../elements/AccessibleButton";
 import AvatarSetting from "../settings/AvatarSetting";
+import { htmlSerializeFromMdIfNeeded } from '../../../editor/serialize';
 import { chromeFileInputFix } from "../../../utils/BrowserWorkarounds";
 
 interface IProps {
@@ -142,7 +143,8 @@ export default class RoomProfileSettings extends React.Component<IProps, IState>
         }
 
         if (this.state.originalTopic !== this.state.topic) {
-            await client.setRoomTopic(this.props.roomId, this.state.topic);
+            const html = htmlSerializeFromMdIfNeeded(this.state.topic, { forceHTML: false });
+            await client.setRoomTopic(this.props.roomId, this.state.topic, html);
             newState.originalTopic = this.state.topic;
         }
 

src/components/views/spaces/SpaceSettingsGeneralTab.tsx

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import AccessibleButton from "../elements/AccessibleButton";
 import SpaceBasicSettings from "./SpaceBasicSettings";
 import { avatarUrlForRoom } from "../../../Avatar";
 import { IDialogProps } from "../dialogs/IDialogProps";
+import { htmlSerializeFromMdIfNeeded } from "../../../editor/serialize";
 import { leaveSpace } from "../../../utils/leave-behaviour";
 import { getTopic } from "../../../hooks/room/useTopic";
 
@@ -47,7 +48,7 @@ const SpaceSettingsGeneralTab = ({ matrixClient: cli, space, onFinished }: IProp
     const canSetName = space.currentState.maySendStateEvent(EventType.RoomName, userId);
     const nameChanged = name !== space.name;
 
-    const currentTopic = getTopic(space);
+    const currentTopic = getTopic(space).text;
     const [topic, setTopic] = useState<string>(currentTopic);
     const canSetTopic = space.currentState.maySendStateEvent(EventType.RoomTopic, userId);
     const topicChanged = topic !== currentTopic;
@@ -77,7 +78,8 @@ const SpaceSettingsGeneralTab = ({ matrixClient: cli, space, onFinished }: IProp
         }
 
         if (topicChanged) {
-            promises.push(cli.setRoomTopic(space.roomId, topic));
+            const htmlTopic = htmlSerializeFromMdIfNeeded(topic, { forceHTML: false });
+            promises.push(cli.setRoomTopic(space.roomId, topic, htmlTopic));
         }
 
         const results = await Promise.allSettled(promises);

src/editor/serialize.ts

@@ -62,7 +62,11 @@ export function htmlSerializeIfNeeded(
         return escapeHtml(textSerialize(model)).replace(/\n/g, '<br/>');
     }
 
-    let md = mdSerialize(model);
+    const md = mdSerialize(model);
+    return htmlSerializeFromMdIfNeeded(md, { forceHTML });
+}
+
+export function htmlSerializeFromMdIfNeeded(md: string, { forceHTML = false } = {}): string {
     // copy of raw input to remove unwanted math later
     const orig = md;
 

src/hooks/room/useTopic.ts

@@ -19,14 +19,17 @@ import { EventType } from "matrix-js-sdk/src/@types/event";
 import { MatrixEvent } from "matrix-js-sdk/src/models/event";
 import { Room } from "matrix-js-sdk/src/models/room";
 import { RoomStateEvent } from "matrix-js-sdk/src/models/room-state";
+import { parseTopicContent, TopicState } from "matrix-js-sdk/src/content-helpers";
+import { MRoomTopicEventContent } from "matrix-js-sdk/src/@types/topic";
 
 import { useTypedEventEmitter } from "../useEventEmitter";
 
 export const getTopic = (room: Room) => {
-    return room?.currentState?.getStateEvents(EventType.RoomTopic, "")?.getContent()?.topic;
+    const content: MRoomTopicEventContent = room?.currentState?.getStateEvents(EventType.RoomTopic, "")?.getContent();
+    return !!content ? parseTopicContent(content) : null;
 };
 
-export function useTopic(room: Room): string {
+export function useTopic(room: Room): TopicState {
     const [topic, setTopic] = useState(getTopic(room));
     useTypedEventEmitter(room.currentState, RoomStateEvent.Events, (ev: MatrixEvent) => {
         if (ev.getType() !== EventType.RoomTopic) return;

src/i18n/strings/en_EN.json

@@ -892,6 +892,7 @@
     "Offline encrypted messaging using dehydrated devices": "Offline encrypted messaging using dehydrated devices",
     "Show extensible event representation of events": "Show extensible event representation of events",
     "Show current avatar and name for users in message history": "Show current avatar and name for users in message history",
+    "Show HTML representation of room topics": "Show HTML representation of room topics",
     "Show info about bridges in room settings": "Show info about bridges in room settings",
     "Use new room breadcrumbs": "Use new room breadcrumbs",
     "New search experience": "New search experience",

src/settings/Settings.tsx

@@ -330,6 +330,13 @@ export const SETTINGS: {[setting: string]: ISetting} = {
         supportedLevels: [SettingLevel.ACCOUNT],
         default: null,
     },
+    "feature_html_topic": {
+        isFeature: true,
+        labsGroup: LabGroup.Rooms,
+        supportedLevels: LEVELS_FEATURE,
+        displayName: _td("Show HTML representation of room topics"),
+        default: false,
+    },
     "feature_bridge_state": {
         isFeature: true,
         labsGroup: LabGroup.Rooms,