RTF Field Parsing when content ends with '<'

Question

I am trying to give below HTML but upon I move to design tab, text was totally altered

HTML : <strong>Testing<</strong>

After Parsing : <strong>Testing&lt;&lt;/strong&gt;</strong>

Answer 1

Your HTML source is have an extra <. Your source should be

<strong>Testing</strong>

Tridion use HTMLTidy out of the box for RTF parsing unless you have a separate XSLT filter.

Answer 2

Yes, this is the issue with Tidy. What you can do is create a rewriter that can change < into < at publish time, but it will still stay as gibberish in component as content. Also, it might interfere with your html on a page.

Also, have you tried publishing it? How is it seen on a page? < > characters are automatically changed to their encoded values so that browsers can differentiate them from opening and closing tags.