Components > Paypal Button not saving properly, neither iframe

Question

I've tried to insert a paypal form + button on a component's type description and once I save a part of the code is gone.

Before

<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top">

After

<form method="post" target="_top">

Paypal form + button is working properly on Articles, but it's not working on Components. I would create a href link instead, but I need form fields info, and it seems I can only get the info with an input button.

I've also tried to insert an iframe and once I save it gets erased completely. It's working on Articles, tho.

Answer 1

Most probably your article editor (TinyMCE?) is cleaning up your code. This is expected behavior by default. Both <iframe> and <form> are among the tags that are removed automatically by TinyMCE. There are a couple of ways around this:

1. Use Sourcerer, a plugin that lets you add HTML (and other kinds of code) directly inside your articles. There's a lot of documentation at their website.

   Here's an example of how you can use it:

   {source}<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top">{/source}
   

   or this if you still have problems:

   {source}[[form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"]]{/source}
   

2. Use another editor (JCE, for example). Note that JCE still might clean up your code, depending on the settings. Another problem with this approach is that if the content is opened and saved with a different editor (e.g. by another user), the code might be removed again.

3. Use a module that allows custom code, e.g. Custom HTML Advanced. Install the module, publish it with your code to a custom position (e.g. "MyPaypalCode"), and write {loadposition MyPaypalCode} in your article where you want the code to appear.