First char of HTML isn't displayed, when "html:<some_html_here>" is passed instead of block name to any tag

[Alexander Obuhovich]

In-Portal uses a block concept to out data from database on a page.

So you basically define a block of HTML somewhere and then pass that block name to a tag, that will use it like in example below:

<inp2:m_DefineElement name="sample_element">

<li><inp2:Field name="SomeField"/></li>

</inp2:m_DefineElement>

<ul>

<inp2:l_PrintList render_as="sample_element"/>

</ul>

This will output all links in a current category using a "sample_element" block. However, there are tags, that require multiple blocks to passed in, e.g. "footer_render_as", "header_render_as" and so on.

If block content is a plain short text without HTML, then can simply use this approach to pass it without creating a new block:

<inp2:l_PrintList render_as="sample_element" footer_render_as="html:it's a footer"/>

So you need to pass "html:any_text_here" instead of a block name. You can also pass "html:" (will result in empty string).

Problem is that first char of passed text will be stripped off.

Task: http://tracker.in-portal.org/view.php?id=1100

Ready for testing.

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[Phil -- wbtc.fr --]

I'm happy to learn this new trick :) could save time and lines of code.

2011/8/17 Alexander Obuhovich <aik....@gmail.com>

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[Alexander Obuhovich]

This trick was designed to pass empty content to a tag instead of creating empty DefineElement tag. It's used mostly in OnlineStore theme.

So instead of:

<inp2:m_DefineElemement name="empty_element"></inp2:m_DefineElement>

<inp2:l_PrintList render_as="empty_element"/>

shorter version was created:

<inp2:l_PrintList render_as="html:"/>

[Phil -- wbtc.fr --]

cool to know about it 

2011/8/17 Alexander Obuhovich <aik....@gmail.com>