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Soeren Sprogoe 575 posts 259 karma points

Jul 15, 2009 @ 13:17
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Using a docs property as an HTML attribute
Hi there,

I'm trying to upgrade a site's template from v3 to v4, and have come across a problem that's probably pretty simple to answer.

I'm trying to insert a documents property as a value in an HTML attribute, like this:
```
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<umbraco:Item field="siteCustomCSS" recursive="true" runat="server"></umbraco:Item>" /> 
```
But the output comes out all wrong:
```
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="&quot;&lt;umbraco:Item" field="siteCustomCSS" recursive="true" /></umbraco:Item>" />
```
How do I fix this? What am I doing wrong here?

Best regards,
Soeren S.
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Ismail Mayat 4511 posts 10091 karma points MVP 2x admin c-trib

Jul 15, 2009 @ 13:21

try

changing

href="<umbraco:Item field="siteCustomCSS" recursive="true" runat="server"></umbraco:Item>" />

href="<umbraco:Item field='siteCustomCSS' recursive='true' runat='server'></umbraco:Item>" />

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Soeren Sprogoe 575 posts 259 karma points

Jul 15, 2009 @ 13:37

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Nope, no luck. It still comes out all wrong :-/

/SoerenS

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Jan Skovgaard 11280 posts 23678 karma points MVP 11x admin c-trib

Jul 15, 2009 @ 13:43

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Would it be a possibility for you to make it as an xslt macro instead?

I am quite sure that it should be possible to have an XSLT macro inserted into the href attribute and getting the correct value.

/Jan

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Warren Buckley 2106 posts 4836 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib

Jul 15, 2009 @ 13:44
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OK try this single quotes for the item in the double quotes, should hopefully fix it.
```
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<umbraco:Item field='siteCustomCSS' recursive='true' runat='server'></umbraco:Item>" />
```
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Warren Buckley 2106 posts 4836 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib

Jul 15, 2009 @ 13:45

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Sorry just seen that Ismail suggested that, but what is the ouput when you do it with single quotes?

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Soeren Sprogoe 575 posts 259 karma points

Jul 15, 2009 @ 13:50
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Close to being the same:
```
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="&lt;umbraco:Item field='siteCustomCSS' recursive='true' runat='server' />" />
```
Not sure why it keeps insisting on writing <

When I copy the stuff outside of the HTML attribute it works just fine.

@Jan: Yeah, when I give up that'll be the solution. It just bothers me why I can't figure out getting something as simple as this to work...

/SoerenS
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Jan Skovgaard 11280 posts 23678 karma points MVP 11x admin c-trib

Jul 15, 2009 @ 13:53
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Strike my suggestion - does'nt work in v4...

But I guess the solution would be to make a macro in, which you write something like this
```
<xsl:variable name="css">
```
```
<xsl:value-of select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::node/data[@alias='stylesheet']" />
```
```
</xsl:variable>
```
```
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{$css}" />
```
/Jan
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Warren Buckley 2106 posts 4836 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib

Jul 15, 2009 @ 13:55

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I am not sure why it would be rendering it like that as when you insert an umbraco:item into a src attribute of an <img> tag it works just fine.

Can I ask why you have a field to store a path to a customCSS file, as maybe this could be implemented easier to avoid this problem?!

Warren

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Soeren Sprogoe 575 posts 259 karma points

Jul 15, 2009 @ 13:55
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Hah, found it!

I've been using the default Runway site template, that starts out with:
```
<head id="head" runat="server">
```
Seems like when you tell an element to be run server side you'll have problems with macros.

Thanks for trying to help guys!

/SoerenS
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Jan Skovgaard 11280 posts 23678 karma points MVP 11x admin c-trib

Jul 15, 2009 @ 13:56

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I think the reason why this is not working could maybe be because of the new template system, which as you surely know is based entirely on the .NET masterpages.

And I don't think you are allowed to assign values to attributes like we could do in earlier versions than v4. But I am not quite sure. Just a thought since my first suggestion does not work either.

Maybe some .NET experts can clear this one out?

/Jan

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Soeren Sprogoe 575 posts 259 karma points

Jul 15, 2009 @ 13:57

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@Warren: It's for a solution that is running multiple similar sites. Each is using the same template system, but has a single, simple custom CSS that changes site logo, colors and simple stuff like that.

/SoerenS

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Dirk De Grave 4541 posts 6021 karma points MVP 3x admin c-trib

Jul 15, 2009 @ 13:59

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Yep, runat="server" is the culprit; Richard has done a blogpost on that...

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Soeren Sprogoe 575 posts 259 karma points

Jul 15, 2009 @ 14:02

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@Dirk: Ah, I knew I've read about the problem somewhere! That's why it was extra super annoying that I couldn't find a solution right away :-P

Thanks for all the help!

/SoerenS

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Warren Buckley 2106 posts 4836 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib

Jul 15, 2009 @ 14:04

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Glad you got it solved - if only you could mark your own post as the solution !

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Warren Buckley 2106 posts 4836 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib

Jul 15, 2009 @ 14:05

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Glad you got it solved - if only you could mark your own post as the solution !

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Masood Afzal 176 posts 522 karma points

Jul 15, 2009 @ 14:53

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this works fine, change it to meet your requirements

<umbraco:Item ID="m_metaKeywords" Field="metaKeywords" runat="server" Xslt="concat('<meta name="keywords" content="',{0},'"/>')" XsltDisableEscaping="true" recursive="true"></umbraco:Item>

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Lee Kelleher 4023 posts 15812 karma points MVP 13x admin c-trib

Jul 15, 2009 @ 15:08
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Glad removing the runat="server" attribute sorted the problem.

On a side note, here is what I usually do instead of including <umbraco:Item> tags in attributes - I use the "insertTextBefore" and "insertTextAfter" properties.
```
<umbraco:Item field="siteCustomCSS" recursive="true" insertTextBefore="&lt;link rel=&quot;stylesheet&quot; type=&quot;text/css&quot; href=&quot;" insertTextAfter="&quot; media=&quot;screen&quot; /&gt;" runat="server"></umbraco:Item>
```
This way if the "siteCustomCSS" property has no value, the rest of the <link /> tag will not be rendered.
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