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Thread began 2/18/2010 3:29 am by alistair316863 | Last modified 3/04/2010 1:48 am by alistair316863 | 2981 views | 12 replies |

2/18/2010 3:29 am | #1 alistair316863

W3C Validation & HTML Editor

Hi my boss is wanting all our sites to be fully W3C compliant which isn't a problem but most of the errors I am correcting are down to HTML Editor for instance W3C want a return to be if i change this in the editor and validate everything is ok but if i go back and alter some text the editor reverts back to making it none compliant.

I also have the editor using mystyle sheets which again is great but, if for instance i have formatted my test using the default font size etc of the editor then restyle with my style sheet it will view correctly on my site but in the source of the text in the editor it is leaving the past styles in as well creating extra code that is not needed and causing it o fail validation.

Any tips or help with this will be much appreciated thanks Alistair

2/19/2010 9:36 am | #2 Jason ByrnesWebAssist

the FCKEditor that ios used by HTMLEditor does not have a way to force tags instead of tags, this is a limitation to the tool.

In the insert record behavior, you can use the replace function to replace any occurance of to whith instead, the code would look like:

php:

<?php echo((isset($_POST["country"]))?str_replace("<br>", "<br />", $_POST["country"]):"") ?>

Formatting can be toggled on or off. In other words if you set text to be bold, reelecting the bold format will remove it. For any format you wish to remove, you have to reselect that format to toggle it off.

2/22/2010 2:56 am | #3 alistair316863

When you say the "insert record behavior" in which file would i find this do you mean in admin/contents_insert.php ? Regards Alistair

2/22/2010 1:56 pm | #4 Jason ByrnesWebAssist

yes, the insert record behavior is on the contents_insert.php page, you will probably also want to change it in the update record behavior on the contents_update.php page.

2/23/2010 1:53 am | #5 alistair316863

Thanks Jason, I have inserted the line of code you gave me but nothing happened I have obviously put it in the wrong place can you be more specific and tell me exactly where i should put it below is where i did thanks Alistair

<?php echo((isset($_POST["country"]))?str_replace(" ", " ", $_POST["country"]):"") ?>
<?php } // Show if recordset empty ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

2/23/2010 2:57 pm | #6 Jason ByrnesWebAssist

do not insert this line of code into the page,

You need to edit the code created in the Insert Record server behavior.

Double click the insert record server behavior. Select the column that the HTMLEditor content is being stored in.

the value section will show code similar to:
<?php echo((isset($_POST["country"]))?$_POST["country"]:"") ?>

the name of the form element will be different. edit that code to include the str_replace functions:
<?php echo((isset($_POST["country"]))?str_replace(" ", " ", $_POST["country"]):"") ?>

don't change the name of the form element though.

2/25/2010 2:47 am | #7 alistair316863

Sorry Jason but i just cannot find the Insert Record server behavior, you are going to have to talk to me like a five year old because i just don't get it.

I have looked in the contents_insert.php for it but unless i am being really stupid (which is more than likely) I just cannot find it. regards Alistair

2/25/2010 3:43 pm | #8 Jason ByrnesWebAssist

you will need to have DataAssist installed to make this change.

Once you have DataAssist installed, go to window -> server behaviors.

In the list of server behaviors, double click the Insert record server behavior. Select the column that the HTMLEditor content is being stored in.

the value section will show code similar to:
<?php echo((isset($_POST["country"]))?$_POST["country"]:"") ?>

the name of the form element will be different. edit that code to include the str_replace functions:
<?php echo((isset($_POST["country"]))?str_replace(" ", " ", $_POST["country"]):"") ?>

don't change the name of the form element though.

2/26/2010 1:37 am | #9 alistair316863

Morning Jason thanks for he reply i have installed data assist and done as you said but still no joy have a look at the attached image and you will see that there wasn't any code that looked like yours i tried this with both the insert Record behaviors. Regards Alistair

2/26/2010 9:14 am | #10 Jason ByrnesWebAssist

If you look at the screen shoot of step 2 of the data assist insert record behavior, the code for each column is similar to the code that posted, the difference is the name of the post variabel that is being referenced. The code I provided is an example using a form element named 'country'. you need to modify it to use the correct form element name for your purposes.

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