HTML spans with links

[J. Landman Gay]

Thank you, I'm not surprised you knew the answer. So, one link is okay but two are not? We're 
using paragraph metadata where we can, but in most cases it isn't possible.

We had to abandon the browser widget because we need field properties that are not supported 
there. It's a challenge, because the source files are complex. If LC can do the span 
substitutions reliably there won't be an issue.


On 2/6/20 4:07 PM, hh via use-livecode wrote:
> The htmltext of a field is based on HTML3 or before.
> 
> In HTML 3/4 a span can not contain two links, in HTML5 yes.
> 
> [So a browser widget does what you explicitly wish to have.]
> 
> Or if you set the metadata of the <p>-tag instead
> (= set the metadata of line x of fld 1 to "metadata1").
> 
>> JLG wrote:
>> If I set the htmlText of a field to HTML that contains a span,
>> and if that span also contains  an anchor or href link,
>> LC separates the span into multiple ones.
>>
>> For example, a field's htmlText set to this:
>>
>> <p> <span metadata="metadata1">This is some text that contains the metadata.<a
>> href="#fn">linkOne</a> And here is some more text. <a href="#en"><i>linkTwo</i></a></span></p>
>>
>> becomes this when retrieved:
>>
>> <p> <span metadata="metadata1">This is some text that contains the metadata.<a
>> href="#fn">linkOne</a></span><span metadata="metadata1"> And here is some more text. <a
>> href="#en"><i>linkTwo</i></a></span></p>
>>
>> How come it does that? Do links interfere with spans?
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