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#1 2006-07-11 14:26:12

msteinruck

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Registered: 2004-07-14

Posts: 44

Floating box inside body text

This is going to be a bit of a weird question, but here’s the scenario:

I’ve got a sidebar type feature that will contain links and float inside of the body text of my page. So it’s not a traditional sidebar that is completely separated from the other content. I want to be able to maintain the links in this box with the links tab of TXP.

Usually for something like this I would place the code directly in the article text and just turn off Textile. But in this case that won’t work. Can anyone think of a way that I can accomplish this so that I don’t have to manually update the sidebar everytime I need to?

Thanks!

#2 2006-07-11 14:56:43

Ace of Dubs

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Registered: 2006-04-17

Posts: 446

Re: Floating box inside body text

Slap your sidebar into a form, save type as “misc” and call it up from your article

<code><txp:output_form form=“yourform” /></code>

The best part is you don’t even have to turn off Textile. :)

#3 2006-07-11 15:04:35

msteinruck

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Registered: 2004-07-14

Posts: 44

Re: Floating box inside body text

Do you mean place the Output Form in the actual article? I didn’t think that it would actually look at the form and ready out what’s in there. I’ll give it a shot.

#4 2006-07-11 15:35:43

Ace of Dubs

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Registered: 2006-04-17

Posts: 446

Re: Floating box inside body text

I thought the same thing, and admittedly have had problems outputting article forms from articles. But static or “misc” forms should parse flawlessly. (at least they do in version 4.0.3)

#5 2006-07-12 01:05:05

jm

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From: Missoula, MT

Registered: 2005-11-27

Posts: 1,746

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Re: Floating box inside body text

Yeah, output_form works inside articles. I use it on my bio page, along with other txp tags.

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