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HTML rendering in Article Menu summary
Posted: Thu 24. Apr 2008, 20:48
by chico_html
When I use Article Menu content part and I select the checkbox to show summary, it renders all the HTML code I have on the summary:
-Item 1 - <strong>This is the summary</strong> of the first item
-Item 2 - Summary of the second item
-Item 3 - <em>Summary</em> of the third item.
How can I avoid that?
Thank you
Re: HTML rendering in Article Menu summary
Posted: Thu 24. Apr 2008, 21:33
by Jensensen
hi,
could have many reasons:
a) the people who edit the article's summary should be urged/instructed to use either <b>, <strong> or <em> with --> summary
b) CSS should be edited well to match same styles for [all] these tags
c) edit/change/adjust --> templates for article view / article listing --> and CP article menu (and urge/instruct editors to use one --> certain template for this CP article menu)
d) [my personal choice] do not use WYSIWYG editors and/or
e) adjust WYSIWYG editor --> settings
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Re: HTML rendering in Article Menu summary
Posted: Fri 25. Apr 2008, 17:20
by chico_html
hi, thank you for your answer, but I think I did't explain the problem well...
When creating a
summary for the article (with the WYSIWYG editor), we need to allow simple formating (bold, italic). Our client asked for that.
I suppose I'll manage to adjust the editor settings for that, so this is not the problem. We could even tell the client: "Use only bold and italic buttons, no more".
The problem is when I use the
Article Menu content part. I check the option "Show summary" and in the frontend I see the html tags instead of their correct rendering.
I think it's not a problem of the editor but the CMS, because using the "Teaser/link article" content part there's no problem and the summary is shown correctly.
Here you can see
a screenshot of the problem
Thanks,
Eduardo
P.S.: I agree with you in d). I don't like WYSIWYG editors, but clients who don't know about html prefer them.
Re: HTML rendering in Article Menu summary
Posted: Fri 25. Apr 2008, 17:44
by Jensensen
Hi Eduardo,
which version running?
Try to place {NEW:3} below the content of the main column.
Please post the source code afterwards.
Right column seems to be CP teaser, isn't it?
Well, strange, no idea right now...
Re: HTML rendering in Article Menu summary
Posted: Fri 25. Apr 2008, 19:03
by chico_html
Hi,
I'm running version 1.3.3
You are right, right column uses
teaser/link article CP.
After placing {NEW:3} after the content, this is the html code I get:
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<div class="breadcrumb"><a href="index.php?home">Home</a></div>
<a name="jump14"></a>
<h3>News</h3><div><a href="index.php?id=16,12,0,0,1,0">Noticia #1</a>
<strong>Summary text noticia 1 </strong>Pellentesque vitae arcu a tortor rutrum varius? Donec at</div>
<div><a href="index.php?id=16,13,0,0,1,0">Noticia 2</a>
Este es el resumen de la <strong>segunda noticia</strong>, sólo se van a mostrar las primeras 32</div>
<hr />
<div class="news"><p><a href="index.php?id=16,14,0,0,1,0"><span class="datelink">2008/04/24 - </span>News</a></p><p><a href="index.php?id=16,13,0,0,1,0"><span class="datelink">2008/04/24 - </span>Noticia 2</a></p><p><a href="index.php?id=16,12,0,0,1,0"><span class="datelink">2008/04/21 - </span>Noticia #1</a></p></div>
The idea of what I need is similar to the right column, but without having to choose the articles (their summary) to be shown.
Re: HTML rendering in Article Menu summary
Posted: Fri 25. Apr 2008, 20:09
by Jensensen
i thought, that with {NEW:3} we would get summary as well (to be able to watch the differences) - was a mistake. sorry.
anyway, and obviously CP article menu destroys HTML tags of summary (changed to html entities)
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<strong>Summary text noticia 1 </strong>
while CP teaser works fine. Really strange!
well, tested right now, locally --> works perfect!
must be something wrong with WYSIWYG Editor (settings).
Did they type
<strong>Summary text noticia 1</strong>
to the WYSIWYG editor?
Should be only "
Summary text noticia 1" and then mark words and then click on styles bold, underline and so on. But DO NOT PUT HTML CODE in WYSIWYG editor!
OR switch to --> SOURCE view to type code there - in this case only!
On the other hand summary in CP teaser is fine, so I don't have any more ideas...sorry
