simple_format is stripping out target _blank

Question

= simple_format(styled_text_for_tagged_text(block.text_block.body, article))

This appears to be stripping attributes like target="_blank" out of my link. I can't use auto_link. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Answer 1

A much better way to do this is to turn off the sanitizer in the simple_format method, and call sanitize on the contents yourself, where you can specify not to strip the target attributes out.

= simple_format(sanitize(body, attributes: ["href", "target"]), {}, sanitize: false)

Then you get the benefits of both simple_format and sanitize.

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