Tag attributes in the BC editor

Question

A useful tip when using the BC editor.
The editor doesn't like shorthand when adding attributes to tags. I have been adding some HTML5 Video tags to a site and adding an 'autoplay' attribute.
I work with Dreamweaver and upload the pages with FTP, so when I have a video tag like:
<video width="350" height="171" autoplay>
and upload it, everything works fine.
Then someone edits the page using the BC editor. It sees the 'autoplay' attribute as an error, presumably because I haven't assigned a value to it, and helpfully removes it. Video doesn't autoplay any more.
I would assume (I haven't tested it yet) that this happens with other tags that don't require a value e.g. 'checked' in the input tag.
Beware of this because you won't see it until the page is saved with the BC editor.

Answer 1

Yes, BC is broken like that. You can work around it by adding specialised Content Holders - the parser is run before inserting the content of the Content Holders.
In the case of the autoplay tag, you could have your code snippet contained entirely within a Content Holder, and insert it into the page with {module_contentholder,12345}. BC will then never modify it. (Unless the matching closing tag is outside a content holder; if BC's parser thinks the closing tag is orphaned, it will be deleted.)
Although that does make for ugly code, and breaks code highlighting & WYSIWYG editors.
P.S. It would be nice if this worked, but BC still removes it:
<video width="350" height="171" {module_contentholder,12345}>