Best Practice: User generated HTML cleaning

Question

I\'m coding a WYSIWYG editor width designMode=\"on\" on a iframe. The editor works fine and i store the code as is in the database.

Before outputing the html i need

Answer 1

I looked into the same question recently with Perl as the server-side language.

While doing so I ran into HTML Purifier which may be what you want. But obviously as it's in PHP and not Perl, I didn't actually test it out.

Also, in my research I came to the conclusion that this is a very tricky business and consider if possible using a simplified markup language like Markdown, as suggested by Hank Gay.