There are many instances where an author might want or need to add a bit of HTML to an article title. For example, to hard code a break:
<h2>My Story <br />Is Better Than Yours!</h2>
or if a title of the book is contained within:
<h2>I reviewed <cite>A Tale of Two Cities</cite></h2>
Since you cannot use Textile in the title field, you might be tempted to simply insert your HTML, but that would result in this showing up on the page:
I reviewed <cite>A Tale of Two Cities</cite>
and this in the underlying html:
I reviewed <cite>A Tale of Two Cities</cite>
The Solution
The solution is to:
- Use a placeholder for the html elements you want
- Use a bit of php to output the title
For our title example, you could enter the title as:
I Reviewed {A Tale of Two Cities}
and then use this in your article form to output the title:
<h2><txp:permlink><txp:php>
global $thisarticle;
assert_article();
$my_title = str_replace('{', '<cite>', $thisarticle['title']);
echo str_replace('}','</cite>',$my_title);
</txp:php></txp:permlink></h2>
Using a placeholder is important so that the titles in your RSS feed or output into the html <title> element don’t contain html elements.
Thanks to jsoo on this thread for the tip!
You could even use this workaround to use Textile in article titles. Just bear in mind the caveats pointed out in the Txp forum thread linked above — it’s up to you to make sure the raw Textile looks OK in RSS feeds, etc. Obviously the Txp team have decided that Textile in article titles is Not, On Balance, A Good Thing, so be advised.
You could do this by replacing <txp:title /> with:
<txp:php>
global $thisarticle;
assert_article();
include txpath.’/lib/classTextile.php’;
$txt = new Textile;
echo $txt->TextileThis($thisarticle[‘title’]);
</txp:php>
Naturally you’d want to put this in a form if you want to use it more than once.
Ack, what am I (not) thinking — titles DO take Textile — please ignore or delete the above!
Ack again, no I was right the first time. Sheesh, just ignore me now…
upm_textile will help here, Nora and J…
Care to post an example Keith?
@Keith: good point!
@Jonathan: This ought to work:
<txp:upm_textile><txp:title /></txp:upm_textile>
@jsoo – that looks a lot easier!