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Thread began 4/24/2015 10:48 am by russb335115 | Last modified 4/27/2015 2:37 pm by Ray Borduin | 1892 views | 6 replies |

russb335115

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On my results page that I created with your tutorial for "Adding a new page in CMS" the results page isn't displaying breaks where there are paragraph tags. The paragraphs show up as one continuos line of copy. I've tries adjusting the CSS but with no luck. Is there something about this function that doesn't allow the <P> tags to be recognized?

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

The strange thing is that I don't see any paragraph tags in the code at all... but I do see the spacing because of the h2 tag. I also do see the paragraph tags functioning properly when I added them manually. Did you update this? I might need more information to properly understand the issue, because I'm either not seeing what you are, or don't understand what I'm looking at that is wrong.

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russb335115

I've included images to better explain the issue.

The first image shows how it looks on the website

The second show how it look in the CMS

And the third one shows how the code looks in the CMS. Notice that the <p> tags are there and it shows correctly on the details page.

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

I'm going to need FTP access to debug it. The issue isn't that the page isn't rendering the P tags, it is that the P tags appear to be removed entirely.

I'm not sure if it is an issue with the value in the database or when it is displayed on the page, but I'll have to debug to figure it out.

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russb335115

See PM

The files are in a folder called "news"

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

I see the problem. This is happening because you are using the optional length parameter in the call to get the cms. On your news-results.php page you are using:

php:
<?php echo WA_getCMSContent($database_PowerCMSConnection$PowerCMSConnection'News''Content'false$row_NewsRS['ContentPageSetOrder'], 200); ?>



This will only return the first 200 characters of that value... but it also automatically strips out any HTML such as <p> tags to prevent it from stopping the string in the middle of an open tag.

Your best bet is to probably remove the ",200" part from that reference and limit the size in another way (such as displaying in a div with a set height and scrolling or overflow:hidden). If you limit the string length by a set number of characters, you can't really include html tags that could mangle the page if interrupted unclosed.

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russb335115

Thanks Ray I did that and it fixed the issue.

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