Last modified: 2014-09-23 23:59:44 UTC
Hi, I have a problem with entering a signature. The Preferences tell me it's invalid and that it has wrong HTML tags when a sandbox test tells me it's totally valid. The steps to reproduce are: 1. Go to the Preferences 2. Enter: <span style="background:Black"> <span style="color:White"> '''≤''' </span><sup>[[User:alvareo|<span style="color:White"> alvareo </span>]]</sup><small>[[User_talk:alvareo|<span style="color:White"> [talk to me] </span>]]</small><span style="color:White"> '''≥''' </span></span> as a signature. 3. Click Save, and the named error will show up. The expected result is having the signature available for me to use. The actual result is the named error, "Invalid raw signature. Check HTML tags." Thank you.
Signature length is limited (by default to 255 characters). Your example is longer than that, so it is cut off before all tags are closed. It would be good if cut-off signatures were detected this and more useful error message ([[MediaWiki:badsiglength]]) was displayed.
Changing to MediaWiki, not a Wikimedia issue.
Is there any way to make the signature limit longer if it's composed majorly by HTML tags?
> Is there any way to make the signature limit longer if it's composed majorly by > HTML tags? I doubt that would be done. It's still a long signature even though it isn't shown. Note that you can bypass the limit, setting a template substitution as signature.
Closing invalid as the signature is being length-limited, and therefore is not a valid signature.
Alvaro, can you still reproduce this problem?
