Allowing HTML in block title - where is $block->subject created?

Question

I want to get a <br> tag into a block-title but by default the brackets are turned into html characters. My theme's block.tpl is

<h2<?php print $title_attributes; ?>><?php print $block->subject; ?></h2>

so it looks like the rendering isn't happening there. I can't find where $block->subject is getting processed. It's not in my theme's template.php. So where in core is $block->subject assembled?

Answer 1

You may be interested in Block Class Styles, which has an additional feature:

Allows the ability to set a global text format for custom block titles; this allows you to now have HTML in your custom block titles. Yes, you can now have block titles that contain HTML markup!

Answer 2

Found the line in block.module:

$block->subject = $block->title == '<none>' ? '' : check_plain($block->title);

Decided to skip any fanciness and just replace $block->subject with $block->title in my block.tpl.php. Easy.

Answer 3

i went this route without having to hack core or install another module. this solution is good if you just need to insert a limited amount of html. in my case i just wanted to surround the text with an em> tag for styling purposes.

i made a new tpl file to override block.tpl.php in my templates folder and I added in the following:

<div id="<?php print $block_html_id; ?>" class="<?php print $classes; ?>"<?php print $attributes; ?>> 

  <?php print render($title_prefix); ?>
<?php if ($block->subject): ?>
  <h2<?php print $title_attributes; ?>> 

  <?php 

  $xtitle = preg_replace('/\*\*/', '<em>', $block->subject, 1); 
  $xtitle = preg_replace('/\*\*/', '</em>', $xtitle, 1); 

  print $xtitle; 

  ?>

  </h2>
<?php endif;?>
  <?php print render($title_suffix); ?>

  <div class="content"<?php print $content_attributes; ?>> 
    <?php print $content ?>
  </div>
</div>

All I'm doing is just doing a string replacement for * * . Now i can just surround my titles with ** if i want to add the em> tag.

Answer 4

You can add an if or switch statement at the top of block.tpl.php to match the unique block delta and then you can change the value of $block->subject:

if($block->delta == 'BLOCK_DELTA'){ $block->subject = t('A title with some HTML'); }

Install devel and the use kpr($block->delta); to find out what the delta is.

Don't forget to pass the title through the t function.