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authorYves Senn <yves.senn@gmail.com>2014-03-08 13:41:38 +0100
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added CSRF helper to rails guide documentation. Closes #11615. [ci skip]
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@@ -1550,7 +1550,7 @@ end
Sanitizes a block of CSS code.
-#### strip_links(html)
+#### strip_links(html)
Strips all link tags from text leaving just the link text.
```ruby
@@ -1568,9 +1568,9 @@ strip_links('Blog: <a href="http://myblog.com/">Visit</a>.')
# => Blog: Visit.
```
-#### strip_tags(html)
+#### strip_tags(html)
-Strips all HTML tags from the html, including comments.
+Strips all HTML tags from the html, including comments.
This uses the html-scanner tokenizer and so its HTML parsing ability is limited by that of html-scanner.
```ruby
@@ -1585,6 +1585,22 @@ strip_tags("<b>Bold</b> no more! <a href='more.html'>See more</a>")
NB: The output may still contain unescaped '<', '>', '&' characters and confuse browsers.
+### CsrfHelper
+
+Returns meta tags "csrf-param" and "csrf-token" with the name of the cross-site
+request forgery protection parameter and token, respectively.
+
+```html
+ <%= csrf_meta_tags %>
+```
+
+These are used to generate the dynamic forms that implement non-remote links
+with `:method`.
+
+Note that regular forms generate hidden fields, and that Ajax calls are
+whitelisted, so they do not use these tags.
+
+More details can be found in the [Rails Security Guide](security.html).
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