Should HTML be allowed in bios?

[leahcimto]

It can be used, but should it be allowed? Or should things like bold and strikethrough be allowed but not things like changing the size of text (as it would make the page look odd)?

Please share your thoughts here.

[gosoccerboy5]

If we were to filter certain tags, would this be done manually, or filtered by a parser or regex?

[gosoccerboy5]

Like, <span style="color: red;">

[Accio1]

No, colouring text should not be allowed as it will make the page look weird and won't look good (or even show up properly) with all site colour schemes.

[gosoccerboy5]

oh. What about <code>?

[Accio1]

No

[gosoccerboy5]

oof

[Shluffy]

I think html in bios isn't bad. I think we should reject ones that contain anything that would mess with the style, even just putting the html in a paragraph with a custom css script as well. I think that the rule for using html should be that tags that could make the page look odd should be rejected, but a link tag is fine.

[gosoccerboy5]

I'd be fine with that, I guess. We should also make sure to replace any disallowed tags with < and > so they appear as, say, <script> instead of actually being a <script> tag.

[Steve0Greatness]

as long as they don't contain images(that could get too big), or scripts(they could be used to download malware), sure.

[leahcimto]

Locking as Accio1 gave an answer.