Can't type or paste parens or brackets into Text field

[kapily]

Repro is pretty simple. Just create a text field:

name = mr.Text(value="John", label="What is your name?", rows=1)

And try pasting or type one of the following characters: ) ( ] [

[pplonski]

It is on purpose, I disabled selected set of characters in the Text widget. Here is a function to sanitize input

mercury/frontend/src/widgets/Text.tsx

Lines 34 to 36 in 22d8bf8

	const sanitizeString = (input_string: string) => {
	return input_string.replace(/["'(){}[\]`^]/gim, "");
	};

[kapily]

Could you add a parameter to allow for disabling the sanitization? There are good reasons to want to use those characters in an input string and any sort of database sanitization should be done on the server anyway

[pplonski]

You are right. I can add parameter to disable sanitization.

To be precise, right now sanitization is applied in the frontend and in the backend - we check input strings two times.

[pplonski]

@spamsch added sanitize parameter in Text widget, thank you! I've added small fixes in fd0021b and it should be working. I've released version 2.3.8 right now and updated docs https://runmercury.com/docs/input-widgets/text/