8.5.0 Bug: Double quotes in Product Name breaks image tag.

[NormanRouxel]

If you have a double quote ( " ) in your Product Name, then the generated image tag will be broken for that product due to the alt="..." being prematurely ended by the quote.

Problem is in the Standard Product Image layout (and presumably in other image layouts).

Reason: 8.0.4 used alt="<actinic:variable name="ProductName"/>"
which escaped double quotes into &#38;#34; which worked fine
(but displayed the markup of any embedded HTML in the product name as part of the Alt tooltip).

However 8.5.0 uses alt="<actinic:variable name="ProductName" encoding="strip"/>"
where encoding="strip" removes any HTML tags but leaves the single quote unaltered.

Workaround: Unless you use HTML in your product descriptions remove the encoding="strip" part.

Suggested fix: Alter Actinic so encoding="strip" also replaces " with &#38;#34;

[cdicken]

Hi Norman

You could try editing the variable to include single quotes within the variable itself e.g.

<actinic:variable name='ProductName' encoding='strip' />

That should avoid this problem.

[NormanRouxel]

Hi, Chris

It's not the parsing of the Variable that's the problem. It's that the encoding="strip" now puts double quotes directly into the generated page. So if the product name is

6" Nails

we'll get an image with an Alt tag of

alt="6" Nails" />

and even worse if there's a > in the product description

e.g.

6" or > Nails

then the alt tag becomes

alt="6" or > Nails" />

so the image tag is inadvertantly ended and spurious text Nails" /> appears next to the image.

Just try it on a standard 8.5.0 demo site. Replace a product name with either of the above and see what happens (mouseover the image to see the Alt tag).

[cdicken]

Understood - thanks for the clarification. I've reported this to the team.