HTML: Private tag

[stephen barncard]

hi gang, I'm gathering from this conversation that the aim is being able to
add extra data into livecode's htmltext, presumably to add extra control
over display of fields, and build it all into a package. I may have brought
this up before, but if I might interject an idea (or call it a workaround)
into this mix. Have you considered turning the problem around? How about
adding a couple of handlers to the affected field? If many fields, it could
be a behavior. then mixed code like this (note last line) <p><font
face="Arial Bold" size="12" color="#000000">current DATABASE is
</font><font face="Arial Bold" color="#000000"><database></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial Bold" size="12" color="#000000">current TABLE is
</font><font face="Arial Bold" color="#000000"><table></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial Bold" size="18" color="#000000"
bgcolor="#ADD8E6"><i>PLEASE SELECT FIELDS AND ORDER</i></font></p> <p><font
face="Arial" color="#582A0F">REARRANGE ORDER AND / OR DELETE UNWANTED
FIELDS</font></p> <p> </p> <textalign=center> <tabstops=100,700>
<backgroundcolor=255,255,255> will display like this: (not all mailers may
get this right) current DATABASE is <database> current TABLE is <table>
PLEASE SELECT FIELDS AND ORDER REARRANGE ORDER AND / OR DELETE UNWANTED
FIELDS And this method, using simple property-data pairs, can set ANY
property of a field, including custom ones. This could be handy for a
multipurpose field -- consider <fixedLineHeight=false> Once I've created a
message, I'll create a base64Encoded block of text, suitable for insertion
in a script: get Base64Decode( \
"PHA+PGZvbnQgZmFjZT0iQXJpYWwgQm9sZCIgc2l6ZT0iMTIiIGNvbG9yPSIjMDAwMDAwIj5j"
& \
"dXJyZW50IERBVEFCQVNFIGlzIDwvZm9udD48Zm9udCBmYWNlPSJBcmlhbCBCb2xkIiBjb2xv"
& \
"cj0iIzAwMDAwMCI+Jmx0O2RhdGFiYXNlJmd0OzwvZm9udD48L3A+CjxwPjxmb250IGZhY2U9"
& \
"IkFyaWFsIEJvbGQiIHNpemU9IjEyIiBjb2xvcj0iIzAwMDAwMCI+Y3VycmVudCBUQUJMRSBp"
& \
"cyA8L2ZvbnQ+PGZvbnQgZmFjZT0iQXJpYWwgQm9sZCIgY29sb3I9IiMwMDAwMDAiPiZsdDt0"
& \
"YWJsZSZndDs8L2ZvbnQ+PC9wPgo8cD48Zm9udCBmYWNlPSJBcmlhbCBCb2xkIiBzaXplPSIx"
& \
"OCIgY29sb3I9IiMwMDAwMDAiIGJnY29sb3I9IiNBREQ4RTYiPjxpPlBMRUFTRSBTRUxFQ1Qg"
& \
"RklFTERTIEFORCBPUkRFUjwvaT48L2ZvbnQ+PC9wPgo8cD48Zm9udCBmYWNlPSJBcmlhbCIg"
& \
"Y29sb3I9IiM1ODJBMEYiPlJFQVJSQU5HRSBPUkRFUiBBTkQgLyBPUiBERUxFVEUgVU5XQU5U"
& \
"RUQgRklFTERTPC9mb250PjwvcD4KPHA+ICAgICAgICA8L3A+Cjx0ZXh0YWxpZ249Y2VudGVy"
& \ "PiA8dGFic3RvcHM9MTAwLDcwMD4gPGJhY2tncm91bmRjb2xvcj0yNTUsMjU1LDI1NT4="
) set the extendedhtmltext of fld "whatever" to it --> EXTENDED HTML 2010
--> script lives in affected field setprop extendedhtmltext pText -- parses
incoming html text for possible style and tabs info and sets accordingly --
triggers on <textalign -- set the extendedhtmlText of fld "field_listdata"
to pText get line -1 of pText if it contains "<textalign" then -- we have
extended html put parseTagLine(it) into tLine if tLine is not empty then
assignValues tLine set the HTMLText of me to pText end if else set the
HTMLText of me to pText end if end extendedhtmltext function parseTagLine
pText repeat until "<" is not in pText put offset("<",pText,0) into t1 --
begin the tag put offset(">",pText,0) into t2 put character t1+1 to t2-1 of
pText & return after tOut delete character 1 to t2 of pText end repeat
delete last character of tOut return tOut end parseTagLine on assignValues
pData set the itemDelimiter to "=" repeat for each line tln in pData put \
"set the" && (item 1 of tln) && \ "of me" && \ "to" && quote & (item 2 of
tln) & quote into tCommand do tCommand end repeat end assignValues -- this
is in the stack script -- I wanted it to be getprop extendedHtmltext but
would have to change the name function getTheFieldSpecs tField -- put the
HTMLText of field tField of this cd into pText put the textAlign of field
tField of this cd into pAlign put the tabStops of field tField of this cd
into pStops put the backgroundColor of field tField of this cd into
pBackground return \ return & \ "<textalign=" & pAlign & ">" && \
"<tabstops=" & pStops & ">" && \ "<backgroundcolor=" & pBackground & ">"
end getTheFieldSpecs
On 1 January 2012 11:43, FlexibleLearning <admin at flexiblelearning.com>wrote:

> Nice one, Richard. Could have sworn there was an undocumented <private>
> tag,
> but must have mis-remembered.
>
> Hugh Senior
> FLCo
>
>
> Hugh Senior wrote:
> > Can someone please remind me of the syntax to include a 'private' tag in
> the
> > htmlText (one that can contain string data and is not removed by LC)?
>
> So far the only solution I've found for embedding metadata in text is to
> use a name attribute within an anchor tab, e.g.:
>
> <a name="some arbitrary data">There's the text</a>
>
> When an anchor tag has no href attribute it's not rendered as a link,
> which makes it okay for this sort of metadata.
>
> However, if you later add an href attribute it will remove the name
> attrbute; apparently name and href are mutually exclusive in the current
> implementation.
>
> To provide more flexibility for this sort of thing I've submitted a
> request to support the span tag:
> <http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9849>
>
>
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