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IElement.Insert() strips &zwnj;

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Bug Report

Description

the zero-width-non-joiner is removed by AngleSharp, when using IElement.Insert(). (using AngleSharp 0.16.0)

Steps to Reproduce

heading.Insert(AdjacentPosition.AfterBegin, $"<a name=\"{entry.Id}\">&zwnj;</a>");

Expected behavior: I expect the html to be inserted as set. (ie. <a name="234">&zwnj;</a>)

Actual behavior: In the string returned from ie. .InnerHtml the &zwnj; is removed (ie. <a name="234"></a>). If I replace it with   that is not removed.

Environment details: Windows 10, .Net5 (core)

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Comments:7 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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utillitycommented, Oct 18, 2021

awesome! Thanks for the clarification!

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FlorianRapplcommented, Oct 13, 2021

This is not how it works. Entities are always replaced with their character representations. There are only some exclusions, see the formatter (https://github.com/AngleSharp/AngleSharp/blob/devel/src/AngleSharp/Html/HtmlMarkupFormatter.cs#L162).

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