Hi Martin

What type of property is your teaser text? Is it a RTE or a multiple text box?

/Jan

* That surround my main divs thus making all text below my slider a link to '#'.

Hi Jan

Oh sorry, it's RTE

Hi Martin

Ok, then you should probably use the umbraco.library:StripHtml extension like...

umbraco.library:Truncate(umbraco.library:StripHtml(teaerText),number(100)).

Hope this helps :)

/Jan

Hi Jan

I thought about that,but the teasertext has paragraphs, so i would very much like to output the

tags from the RTE so the 209 character long teaser is nicely output with 2x 3-4 line paragraphs.

Also, inserting the <p> tags manually is not an option for my client.

To clarify;

This is how i want it to look, so the <p> tags need to be there, but not shown, hence disable-output-escaping should be there:

xslt code:

<!-- start writing XSLT -->
    <div id="slider"> 
      <a id="prev" href="#" title="Forrige slide"><img src="/css/gfx/previous.png" alt="Forrige slide" class="sliderPrevious" onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Forside', 'Handlinger', 'Forrige slide klik']);" /></a>
     <a id="next" href="#" title="Næste slide"><img src="/css/gfx/next.png" alt="Næste slide" class="sliderNext" onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Forside', 'Handlinger', 'Næste slide klik']);" /></a>   
      <div id="imageSlider">
          <xsl:for-each select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($source)/child::umediaSlider [@isDoc and umbracoNaviHide != 1]">
               <div class="imageSlide">
                    <div class="imageSliderInfo">
                       <p class="aniInfo">Info om skadedyret:</p>
                        <h3 class="slide"><xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/></h3>                     
                      <span><xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:TruncateString(teaserText, number($excerptLength), '...')" disable-output-escaping="yes" /></span>                    
                      <p class="infoBtnContainer">
                            <xsl:if test="string(selectedLink) != ''">
                              <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(selectedLink)}" title="Sådan bekæmpes {@nodeName}" class="CTAinsect">
                                 <xsl:value-of select="linkText"/>
                               </a>
                            </xsl:if>
                       </p>          
                          
                  </div>
                  <div class="imageSliderImage">
                      <img src="{umbracoFile}" width="665" height="283" />
                    </div>
              </div>   
           </xsl:for-each>
     </div>
  </div>

Hi Martin

Well it's definitely not a bug. It makes sense that it just truncates text/html.

However I currently I can't wrap my head around the proper solution for what you're trying to do. I'll let you know if an idea pops up all of the sudden.

/Jan

Hi Jan

Out of pure interest and lack of knowledge of the truncate function:

How is it not a bug that a for each loop causes multiple outputs of half-broken a tags when disable-output-escaping="yes" is added to a truncate functionality?

I'm using this snippet on another site, where there's no problems, also in a for-each loop:

 <div class="newsTextContainer">
              <xsl:choose>
                <xsl:when test="string($excerptLength) != '0'">
                  <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:TruncateString(introduction, number($excerptLength), '...')" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
                </xsl:when>
                <xsl:otherwise>
                  <xsl:value-of select="introduction" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
                </xsl:otherwise>
              </xsl:choose>
            </div>

Even if i disable the javascript creating the slide effect, it still happens. It's quite a mindboggle that i have it working on one site, but not the other.

Hi Martin,

The Truncate function is not a bug, if you only want plain text from the xslt try this

<xsl:value-ofselect="umbraco.library:TruncateString(umbraco.library:StripHtml(introduction), 150, '...')"/>

//fuji

Hi Fuji

I'm not refering to the function itself being a bug. My problem is that using truncate in this case breaks the html structure when i add disable-output-escaping="yes"

It seems like the for-each loop returns more nodes than there are, as soon as i add the above to the value-of string.

Visuals:

When i remove disable-output-escaping="yes", these a tags disappear and everything works like intended:

I'm not interested in plain text as i need the paragraphs for the formatting of the text.

Hi Lee

Adding more characters to the truncate function indeed does fix the issue, how sad i didn't figure that part out by myself.

Anyway, thank you very much for pointing out the obvious and thanks a bunch for the reference!

I think both Jan and Fuji tried to say the same i just didn't get it.

Thank you all for helping out!

Hi Martin,

Glad that you've found a fix. No worries about things appearing 'obvious' - we are all here to help and learn. :-)

Cheers, Lee.

Indeed the friendliest community on the planet!

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