The issue has nothing to do with your templates--it has to do with your data, and how you're searching it. In the database, you have stored "Survival of <em>Shigella</em>". If you do a regular text search (field__contains, or similar) for "Survival of Shigella", you'll never get a match, because those strings don't match.
There are a few ways to deal with this, but I think one of the cleanest would be to actually store *two* versions of the fields you need to search: one with whatever HTML you need, and one with all of the tags stripped out. Then, you perform the searches on the stripped field(s), but display the "real" field. You can override your model's save() method to actually set the stripped field. -Jeff On Feb 6, 1:12 pm, May <[email protected]> wrote: > In the database I need to italics species names ex. Survival of > <em>Shigella</em> > In the search template I use the following: > > <form action="." method="GET"> > <label for="q">Search for Publications: </label> > <input type="text" name="q" value="{{ query|safe}}"> > <input type="submit" value="Search"> > </form> > > When a user types in "Survival of Shigella" the search code finds no > record, because I think the <em> tags are hindering the search > somehow. When I type in Shigella the search finds the record. I > have changed the > value = {{query|safe}} to all combinations (escape, force_escape, > escapejs, iriencode, urlencode) and I still can't get the search to > work. Anyone have a suggestion on one; either using different html > tags for italics or two; suggest how to get the search to strip the > tags? > > Thanks, > > May --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
