Allow image-only category description

[zenexpert]

Details discussed here: https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.php?228328-Category-description-getting-cleared

[scottcwilson]

I'm not wild about this. The description is supposed to be a block of text. Could this be a plugin instead?

[zenexpert]

It's not a matter of turning it into an additional plugin. Here's a c/p from the forum:

What I'm saying - we either need a warning in messagestack to let the store owner know that the code was stripped down, or we shouldn't strip it down. Or maybe something else, dunno. Just not a silent strip down.

There's no clear info that it SHOULD be a block of text or anything alike - imagine the frustration not knowing what it should be and you add 10-20 images before realizing it's not working and there's no explanation why...

[scottcwilson]

This issue has come up exactly once in the 15 years I have been doing this. It's an edge case and a bad idea (as noted by @dbltoe on the forum). There's already a category image if you want to display an image. Descriptions and titles are text.

[proseLA]

i disagree. just because you have only seen it once in 15 years does not mean it's not a problem.

it's another one of those hard coded things that ZC does that has frustrated a valued member of the community. i think the downside of allowing 4 different tags is minimal.

and more importantly, if you strip them and NOT tell the admin they were stripped, i think that's bad communication.