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WYSIWYG Editor problem - external links

dotcombubble — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:10:09 GMT

Hi,I thought this would be a relatively easy problem to solve but I can't find a solution anywhere.I have a web form for creating a simple article. The user can enter text etc.When I try to create a link for an external website (e.g. http://www.google.com) and then try to preview my content, the lin

Re: WYSIWYG Editor problem - external links

mikeh — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:55:29 GMT

Are you surrounding the link with "double quotes"? An encoded " is %22.

Mike

Re: WYSIWYG Editor problem - external links

dotcombubble — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:30:57 GMT

Thanks for the reply Mike.

No, I am not adding quotes. I added the quotes in my description purely to indicate what I was typing. Just to be sure, what I type in the insert/edit link popup is: Http://www.google.com.

What I have found that is interesting is if I browse the sandbox website and then select "Create Web Content" from the "Create" menu and select content type as HTML in the dropdown in Step 1 and give the file a name like test.html, selecting the same web form, in step 2 I then create the link the same way as previously and the link on the rendered pagewhen previewed will be purely:

Http://www.google.com‍

Rather than the whole weird preview url I get if I used the web form directly, i.e.:

http://admin.alfrescosample.www--sandbox.127-0-0-1.ip.alfrescodemo.net:8180/%22http://www.google.com%22‍

Any ideas?

Thanks again.

Re: WYSIWYG Editor problem - external links

dotcombubble — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:47:32 GMT

Thanks again for the help Mike, I found and fixed the problem ops:

When rendering the form, my xsl was using:

<xsl:variable name="body-text">
                        <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(hg:body)" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
                      </xsl:variable>
                      <xsl:value-of select="alf:encodeQuotes($body-text)" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
                     ‍‍‍‍‍

Changing this to:


                       <xsl:variable name="body-text">
                        <xsl:value-of select="hg:body" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
                      </xsl:variable>
                      <xsl:value-of select="$body-text" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>‍‍‍‍‍

Fixed the problem and stopped prepending the virtual URL.

Hope this might help other people too.

Re: WYSIWYG Editor problem - external links

mikeh — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:55:18 GMT

Thanks for the update - useful info.

Mike