How to get current tiddler title string and then encodeuri it?

[Dunstan Hume]

Hello, I've been trying for hours and I can't seem to get my macro working

\define encodeTitleString(text)

[[$(currentTiddler)$]] +[encodeuri[]]

\end

How do I get it to get the title of the current tiddler, then spit out the encoded string?

[Mark S.]

You can display the title like this:

{{{ [<currentTiddler>] +[encodeuri[]] }}}

"encodeuri" has to be invoked inside a filter. Triple {{{ }}} brackets are one way of doing that. But you may have had something else in mind.

Good luck!

[Dunstan Hume]

Thank you, that helped me a bit to understand. I still couldn't make it work anywhere in any of my codes. Is it possible to put it in $vars?

<$vars titleName={{{ [<currentTiddler>] +[encodeuri[]] }}}>

<a href="$titleName$">Link</a>

</$vars>

Can't seem to get it right.

[TonyM]

Dustan,

Use the variable you created with the vars?

<$vars titleName={{{ [<currentTiddler>] +[encodeuri[]] }}}>

<a href=<<titleName>> >Link</a>
</$vars>

Tony

[Dunstan Hume]

Thank you! I managed to get it to work, then had to abandon it. I was adding it to CSS classnames and ids.

The output didn't encode single quotes, which broke CSS naming or something.

I would still like to know though, is there a way to force the single-quotes to be encoded?

Escaping them doesn't seem to work for CSS too.

[TonyM]

Dunstan

We need more info to help fully. Like where are you using the result.

The view widget also offers encoding.

Regards
Tony