Ruby elements in WordPress

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  hawkrives · Member · May 16, 2014 at 12:31 am

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  The ruby element does not appear to be a supported element in WordPress (as per http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/#html-tags). I would like to propose that it be allowed.

  Something like:

  <ruby>
    漢 <rp>(</rp><rt>Kan</rt><rp>)</rp>
    字 <rp>(</rp><rt>ji</rt><rp>)</rp>
  </ruby>

  would be very useful for Asian languages. (see http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/weblog/2011/ruby/ and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ruby for background on the ruby tag.)

  The WordPress docs say:

  If you are familiar with HTML, you’ll notice that codes such as embed, frame, iframe, form, input, object, textarea and others are missing from the above list. Those codes are not allowed on WordPress.com for security reasons.

  and I don’t believe that there are any security risks from adding ruby, rb, rp, and friends as allowed tags.

  Thanks!

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