Templating Workaround

[Jonathan Eunice]

The “External HTML” feature described on the agility.js homepage seemed interesting, especially given how terrible JS is at the multi-line strings needed for any but the simplest view.formatstructures. But for the life of me I could not get the example to work.

But I eventually cracked the code! For anyone else struggling to get what it says in the docs to work, here was my fix. Instead of:

format: $('#my-format').html(),

you need:

format: $.parseHTML($("#my-format").html()),

I’ve confirmed this works with Agility.js 0.1.3 and either jQuery 1.9.1 and jQuery 2.0.0.

My understanding is that Agility was tested with jQuery 1.6.1; this may simply be one of those things where jQuery subtly changed its behavior over the last 18 months.