GraphQLConf 2025 — allow limited HTML in session descriptions

src/app/conf/2025/schedule/[id]/format-description.tsx

@@ -1,35 +1,45 @@
-import React from "react"
-
 const URL_REGEX = /https?:\/\/[^\s]+/g
+const LINK_REGEX = /<a\s+([^>]*href\s*=\s*[^>]*)>/gi
+
+export function formatDescription(text: string): string {
+  // we coerce all existing anchor tags to have target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" and typography-link class
+  const result = text.replace(LINK_REGEX, (_, attributes) => {
+    let attrs = attributes
+
+    if (!attrs.includes("target=")) {
+      attrs += ' target="_blank"'
+    }
+
+    if (!attrs.includes("rel=")) {
+      attrs += ' rel="noopener noreferrer"'
+    }
+
+    if (!attrs.includes("class=")) {
+      attrs += ' class="typography-link"'
+    } else if (!attrs.includes("typography-link")) {
+      attrs = attrs.replace(
+        /class\s*=\s*["']([^"']*)/gi,
+        'class="$1 typography-link',
+      )
+    }
+
+    return `<a ${attrs}>`
+  })
 
-export function formatDescription(text: string): React.ReactNode {
-  const res: React.ReactNode[] = []
+  // then we format plain URLs that are not already inside an anchor tag
+  return result.replace(URL_REGEX, (url, offset) => {
+    const beforeUrl = result.slice(0, offset)
+    const afterUrl = result.slice(offset + url.length)
 
-  let lastIndex = 0
-  let match: RegExpExecArray | null
+    const lastOpenTag = beforeUrl.lastIndexOf("<")
+    const lastCloseTag = beforeUrl.lastIndexOf(">")
+    const nextCloseTag = afterUrl.indexOf(">")
 
-  while ((match = URL_REGEX.exec(text)) !== null) {
-    if (match.index > lastIndex) {
-      res.push(text.slice(lastIndex, match.index))
+    if (lastOpenTag > lastCloseTag && nextCloseTag !== -1) {
+      return url
     }
 
-    res.push(
-      <a
-        href={match[0]}
-        target="_blank"
-        rel="noopener noreferrer"
-        className="typography-link"
-      >
-        {match[0].replace(/^https?:\/\//, "")}
-      </a>,
-    )
-
-    lastIndex = match.index + match[0].length
-  }
-
-  if (lastIndex < text.length) {
-    res.push(text.slice(lastIndex))
-  }
-
-  return <>{res}</>
+    const displayUrl = url.replace(/^https?:\/\//, "")
+    return `<a href="${url}" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="typography-link">${displayUrl}</a>`
+  })
 }

src/app/conf/2025/schedule/[id]/page.tsx

@@ -104,13 +104,17 @@ export default function SessionPage({ params }: SessionProps) {
                   </>
                 )}
 
-                <h3 className="typography-h2 my-8 max-w-[408px] px-2 sm:px-3 lg:my-16">
-                  Session speakers
-                </h3>
-                <SessionSpeakers
-                  session={session}
-                  className="-mx-px -mb-px last:xl:pb-24"
-                />
+                {!!session.speakers?.length && (
+                  <>
+                    <h3 className="typography-h2 my-8 max-w-[408px] px-2 sm:px-3 lg:my-16">
+                      Session speakers
+                    </h3>
+                    <SessionSpeakers
+                      session={session}
+                      className="-mx-px -mb-px last:xl:pb-24"
+                    />
+                  </>
+                )}
 
                 {!!session.files?.length && (
                   <>
@@ -255,9 +259,13 @@ function SessionDescription({ session }: { session: ScheduleSession }) {
   return (
     <div className="mt-8 flex gap-4 px-2 pb-8 max-lg:flex-col sm:px-3 lg:mt-16 lg:gap-8 xl:pb-16">
       <h3 className="typography-h2 min-w-[320px]">Session description</h3>
-      <p className="typography-body-lg whitespace-pre-wrap">
-        {formattedDescription}
-      </p>
+      <p
+        className="typography-body-lg whitespace-pre-wrap"
+        dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{
+          // the description was partially sanitized when syncinc data from sched
+          __html: formattedDescription,
+        }}
+      />
     </div>
   )
 }

src/app/conf/2025/schedule/_components/schedule-session-card.tsx

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import {
   MenuItems,
   Transition,
 } from "@headlessui/react"
+import { stripHtml } from "string-strip-html"
 
 import { SchedSpeaker, ScheduleSession } from "@/app/conf/_api/sched-types"
 import { Anchor } from "@/app/conf/_design-system/anchor"
@@ -132,10 +133,12 @@ export function ScheduleSessionCard({
               </span>
             )}
             <span className="mt-4 flex items-center gap-2 xl:mt-6">
-              <span className="typography-body-xs flex items-center gap-0.5">
-                <PinIcon className="size-4 text-pri-base [@container(width<240px)]:hidden" />
-                {session.venue}
-              </span>
+              {session.venue && (
+                <span className="typography-body-xs flex items-center gap-0.5">
+                  <PinIcon className="size-4 text-pri-base [@container(width<240px)]:hidden" />
+                  {session.venue}
+                </span>
+              )}
               {blockTimeFraction < 1 && (
                 <span className="typography-body-xs flex items-center gap-0.5">
                   <ClockIcon className="size-4 text-pri-base [@container(width<240px)]:hidden" />
@@ -176,7 +179,7 @@ function AddToCalendarLink({
     title: eventTitle,
     start: session.event_start,
     end: session.event_end,
-    description: session.description,
+    description: stripHtml(session.description).result,
     location: session.venue,
     organizer: {
       name: `GraphQLConf ${new Date().getFullYear()}`,

src/app/conf/2025/speakers/[id]/long-session-card.tsx

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import React, { Fragment } from "react"
 import { SessionTags } from "../../components/session-tags"
 import { Menu, MenuItem, MenuItems, Transition } from "@headlessui/react"
 import { MenuButton } from "@headlessui/react"
+import { stripHtml } from "string-strip-html"
 
 export interface LongSessionCardProps
   extends React.HTMLAttributes<HTMLDivElement> {
@@ -172,7 +173,7 @@ function AddToCalendarLink({
     title: eventTitle,
     start: session.event_start,
     end: session.event_end,
-    description: session.description,
+    description: stripHtml(session.description).result,
     location: session.venue,
     organizer: {
       name: `GraphQLConf ${new Date().getFullYear()}`,

src/app/conf/_api/sched-client.tsx

@@ -135,7 +135,9 @@ export async function getSchedule(
         ...session,
         event_type,
         event_subtype,
-        description: preprocessDescription(description),
+        description: preprocessDescription(description, {
+          allowSomeHtml: true,
+        }),
       }
     })
 
@@ -183,15 +185,22 @@ export async function getSpeakerDetails(
   return shapeSpeaker(data as SchedSpeaker)
 }
 
-function preprocessDescription(description: string | undefined | null): string {
+function preprocessDescription(
+  description: string | undefined | null,
+  options: { allowSomeHtml?: boolean } = {},
+): string {
   let res = description || ""
 
   // we respect manual line breaks
   res = res.replace(/<br\s*\/?>/g, "\n")
 
   // respecting <li> and <a> tags doesn't make sense, because speakers don't use them consistently
   // we'll improve how the descriptions look later down the tree in the session details page
-  return stripHtml(res).result
+  return stripHtml(res, {
+    ignoreTags: options.allowSomeHtml
+      ? ["a", "b", "i", "em", "strong", "code", "pre", "ul", "ol", "li"]
+      : [],
+  }).result
 }
 
 function shapeSpeaker(user: SchedSpeaker): SchedSpeaker {

src/app/conf/_api/sched-types.ts

@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ export type ScheduleSession = {
   id: string
   active: "Y" | "N"
   audience: string
+  /**
+   * can include HTML tags
+   */
   description: string
   event_end: string
   event_start: string