Removed linkify of text when it is in response textarea

openassessment/templates/openassessmentblock/response/oa_response.html

 {% load tz %}
 {% load i18n %}
-{% load oa_extras %}
 {% spaceless %}
 {% block list_item %}
 <li class="openassessment__steps__step step--response is--in-progress is--showing ui-slidable__container"
@@ -104,7 +103,7 @@
                                         aria-describedby="submission__answer__tip__{{ xblock_id }}"
                                         placeholder="{% trans "Enter your response to the prompt above." %}"
                                         maxlength="100000"
-                                    >{{ part.text|escape|link_and_linebreak }}</textarea>
+                                    >{{ part.text }}</textarea>
                                 </div>
                                 {% with forloop.counter|stringformat:"s" as submission_num %}
                                     {% include "openassessmentblock/oa_latex_preview.html" with id="submission__"|add:xblock_id|add:submission_num elem="div" preview_name="submission__"|add:submission_num %}

openassessment/templatetags/oa_extras.py

@@ -9,12 +9,16 @@ import bleach
 register = template.Library()
 
 
-@register.filter(needs_autoescape=True)
+@register.filter()
 @stringfilter
-def link_and_linebreak(text, autoescape=True):
-
-    if text and len(text) > 0:
-        the_text = conditional_escape(text)
-        return mark_safe(linebreaks(bleach.linkify(the_text, callbacks=[callbacks.target_blank])))
-    else:
-        return text
+def link_and_linebreak(text):
+    """
+    Converts URLs in text into clickable links with their target attribute set to `_blank`.
+    It wraps givent tags into <p> tags and converts line breaks(\n) to <br> tags.
+    Args:
+        text: (str) Text having URLs to be converted
+    Returns: (str) Text with URLs convert to links
+    """
+    if text:
+        escaped_text = conditional_escape(text)
+        return mark_safe(linebreaks(bleach.linkify(escaped_text, callbacks=[callbacks.target_blank])))