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[SOLVED] Is there a tag for inserting an anchor?
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:06 pm
by eh
Till now I missunderstood the {anchor} tag. Thought it serves for placing the '' in the generated HTML, but actually it creates a link targetting the anchor.
Figured out that I have to insert the anchor with the TinyMCE editor. What I'd like more would be something readable in the form of a tag, for example {insert_anchor name="myanchor"}.
My question now is: Does such a tag exist somewhere and does it make any sense at all to have such a tag?
Thanks
Ernst
Re: Is there a tag for inserting an anchor?
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:37 pm
by christiaans
This is done fairly easy actually.
Go to Extensions > User Defined Tags (usually referred to as UDT), and create a new UDT, with the following:
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echo '<a name="' . $params['name'] . '" title="'' .$params['name']"></a>';
Then insert your UDT as follows (if you call your UDT "insert_anchor"):
If you don't know how to do this, take a look at the wiki page about UDT's:
http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... fined_Tags
Re: Is there a tag for inserting an anchor?
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 10:01 pm
by eh
Thank you!
I've put it in the collection of UDT's here:
http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/Share_your_tags_here#Inserting_an_anchor_in_generated_HTML
Maybe others are also interested in it.
Regards
Ernst
Re: [SOLVED] Is there a tag for inserting an anchor?
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 6:46 am
by christiaans
Awesome! Good luck with your site
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Re: [SOLVED] Is there a tag for inserting an anchor?
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:04 pm
by faglork
No need for an UDT here ... there is already a tag available for that: cms_selflink
Just look into the tag help for parameters.
Cheers,
Alex
Re: [SOLVED] Is there a tag for inserting an anchor?
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 6:38 pm
by eh
Hi Alex
I read the cms_selflink documentation over and over and tried it out - but didn't succeed with using it to create an anchor in a page. For me the cms_selflink tag is indeed used to create a visible link in a page users can click on to be transferred to another page or location within the same page. Creating a link to anchor "demoanchor" in page "references" is done like this:
{cms_selflink dir="anchor" page="references" anchorlink="demoanchor" text="Click here..."}
So this wasn't my problem - but I didn't find something pre-fabricated in CMSMS to create the (invisible) anchor which should look like this for the example given above:
Blablabla...
...more blablabla
If you could show me how this is achieved with cms_selflink I'd be very thankful because I prefer using existing components instead of writing my owns.
Regards
Ernst
Re: [SOLVED] Is there a tag for inserting an anchor?
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:41 pm
by faglork
Ah, I misread the post.
Creating an anchor is simple:
a) TinyMCE has an "Anchor" button. It will insert a
code.
b) Since you can reference class IDs as well, you just assign an ID to the element which shall serve as anchor. E.g. you can reference
if you want a "Back to top of page" anchor link.
c) last not least there is the
tag:
http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 210.0.html
Cheers,
Alex
Re: [SOLVED] Is there a tag for inserting an anchor?
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 2:47 pm
by eh
Hi Alex
a)
Using WYSIWYG mode in TinyMCE shows a small anchor icon for every anchor in a page - one has to select the icon to see the anchor name. Because I have a page with several anchors it's easier for me to read if I see the anchor names in the text, embedded in the {} for my UDT:
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* [Cla94] {insert_anchor name='cla94'} Clarkson, Mark, Windows hothouse: creating artificial life with Visual C++, Addison Wesley, 1994.
* [Ted07] {insert_anchor name='ted07'} Thoughts by Ted (Internet).
* [Wri00] {insert_anchor name='wri00'} Wright, Richard S., Jr., OpenGL Super Bible, Second Edition, Waite Group Press, 2000.
...
...
b)
Yes, works great (
http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/topic,30210.0.html). But here too I can't easily figure out the anchor name.
c)
{anchor} creates a link targeting at an anchor, similar to {cms_selflink} but as far as I understand without capability to link to anchors on other pages.
Regards
Ernst