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IFRAME, NOEMBED, and NOFRAMES contents were omitted from normalized HTML. Print their rawtext contents verbatim according to the standard for serializing HTML fragments.

If current node is a Text node
If the parent of current node is a style, script, xmp, iframe, noembed, noframes, or plaintext element, or if the parent of current node is a noscript element and scripting is enabled for the node, then append the value of current node's data literally.

Otherwise, append the value of current node's data, escaped as described below.

Allow setting their modifiable text (and XMP) accordingly.

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/65372

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sirreal added 6 commits June 11, 2026 23:18
The serializer was discarding the raw-text contents of IFRAME, NOEMBED, and NOFRAMES even though get_modifiable_text() already returns the browser-equivalent raw text for those elements.

Let those elements follow the same raw emission path as SCRIPT and STYLE, preserving contents while retaining existing NUL and newline normalization.

See #65372.
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'STYLE content' => array( "<style>\x00 {}</style>", "<style>\u{FFFD} {}</style>" ),
'IFRAME content' => array( "<iframe>a\x00b</iframe>", "<iframe>a\u{FFFD}b</iframe>" ),
'NOEMBED content' => array( "<noembed>a\x00b</noembed>", "<noembed>a\u{FFFD}b</noembed>" ),
'NOFRAMES content' => array( "<noframes>a\x00b</noframes>", "<noframes>a\u{FFFD}b</noframes>" ),

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we don’t currently allow setting modifiable text in these, so it may be appropriate to toggle that in this same change, and follow what we do with SCRIPT and TITLE etc... and start rejecting updates which otherwise would contain closing tags for these.

although they are special atomic elements, we can find isolated closing tags. to make it easier we could reject strings containing </iframe, for example, which might be good enough for this upcoming release.

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Addressed in 7a5300d by enabling set_modifiable_text() for IFRAME, NOEMBED, and NOFRAMES, and rejecting updates containing their own closing tags such as </iframe.

Verified with PHPCS, the focused modifiable-text tests, the HTML Processor serialization class, and the full html-api group.

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Pull request overview

This PR updates the HTML API normalization/serialization behavior so that rawtext element contents are preserved (instead of being omitted) for IFRAME, NOEMBED, and NOFRAMES, aligning output with the HTML fragment serialization rules in the WHATWG spec and the linked Trac ticket.

Changes:

  • Preserve and serialize rawtext contents for IFRAME, NOEMBED, and NOFRAMES instead of dropping them during normalization.
  • Extend WP_HTML_Tag_Processor::set_modifiable_text() support/tests for rawtext replacements inside those elements.
  • Update and expand PHPUnit coverage for rawtext preservation and NULL-byte handling in these elements.

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File Description
tests/phpunit/tests/html-api/wpHtmlTagProcessorModifiableText.php Adds test coverage for setting modifiable text inside IFRAME/NOEMBED/NOFRAMES, including rejection cases.
tests/phpunit/tests/html-api/wpHtmlProcessor-serialize.php Replaces the XMP-only test with a shared rawtext test provider and adds NULL-byte cases for the new elements.
src/wp-includes/html-api/class-wp-html-tag-processor.php Adds set_modifiable_text() handling for IFRAME/NOEMBED/NOFRAMES rawtext content.
src/wp-includes/html-api/class-wp-html-processor.php Stops blanking IFRAME/NOEMBED/NOFRAMES contents during serialize_token(), so rawtext is emitted verbatim.

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@sirreal sirreal changed the title HTML API: Preserve raw text contents in serialize HTML API: Preserve raw text in serialize, allow setting Jul 13, 2026
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The contents of `iframe`, `noembed`, and `noframes` elements are parsed as raw text and must be appended literally when serializing rather than escaped or omitted. Setting the modifiable text of these elements, as well as `xmp`, is now supported.

Developed in #12289.

Follow-up to [62542].

Props jonsurrell, dmsnell.
See #65372.


git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@62715 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
markjaquith pushed a commit to markjaquith/WordPress that referenced this pull request Jul 13, 2026
The contents of `iframe`, `noembed`, and `noframes` elements are parsed as raw text and must be appended literally when serializing rather than escaped or omitted. Setting the modifiable text of these elements, as well as `xmp`, is now supported.

Developed in WordPress/wordpress-develop#12289.

Follow-up to [62542].

Props jonsurrell, dmsnell.
See #65372.

Built from https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@62715


git-svn-id: http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@61999 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
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Merged in r62715.

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