Thanks Richard, That looks so much easier. I never used 'merge' before. I will definitely use this.
Greetings, William 2010/8/25 Richard Gaskin <[email protected]>: > William de Smet wrote: > >> It's been a while since my last question but working hard on some apps. >> For my daily job I needed a quick app to create a HTML file. In the >> app I have some fields and in one of them I put a URL (just >> www.domainname.com). >> In some hidden fields I put the needed HTML and the all come together >> when I save the file. >> All works fine but when I look at the sourcecode in IE8 or Safari the >> HTML isn't completely correct. >> In a link it misses the quotes (") at the beginning or the end of the URL. >> >> What I do is this: >> put "<a href="& "http://"; & fld "link" & " & target="& _blank &" >" >> & fld "link" &"</a>" & "<"&"br/"&">" & "<"&"br/"&">" after tData > > You've discovered why I hate concatenating HTML in xTalks. ;) > > I've found it far less tedious to just write the HMTL as I want it in the > final output and use the merge function to assemble the dynamic parts. > > For example, you could have this in a field named "template": > > <a href="http://[[fld "link"]]" target="_blank ">[[fld > "link"]]</a><br/><br/> > > ...and then just use this to get the assembled output: > > put merge(fld "template") into tData > > Check out the merge function in the RevTalk dictionary. It's a life-saver > for tasks like this (and a good many others). > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World > Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com > Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com > revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
