[steeditor] Tags should not allow special characters except for single -

Project Information

Repository: https://github.com/jakipatryk/steeditor
Project Name: Steeditor
Publisher: @jakipatryk

Expected Behavior

Tags should prevent a user from entering all invalid special characters except one single - between two words.

Actual Behavior

Tags allow all special characters (!@$%^&*()) except for #. When trying to publish a post, steem throws a broadcast error without any details.

Steps to Reproduce

• Login to https://steeditor.app
• Select draft from the top menu and then proceed to select + in the bottom right corner to add a new draft.
• Turn off use template and click create.
• Enter any title and body text.
• Enter tags with special characters Ex. test/test
• Click on Next twice to go to summary section and click Send.
• Notice the broadcast error at the bottom of the page.

Proposed fix:

Use following regex for testing a valid tag: /^[1]+(-[a-z0-9]+)$/*

Recording of the issue

• Browser: Google Chrome ( 69.0.3497.81 Version)
• Operating system: OSX 10.11.6

GitHub Account

https://github.com/mightypanda-x
https://github.com/jakipatryk/steeditor/issues/84

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1. a-z0-9 ↩