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Excerpt styling issue...must be missing the obvious ?
So I want to post the excerpt and body together, but I want to style the excerpt much differently, and I also want to do it clean and semantic-like (i.e., I don’t want to wrap span tags around Txp’s added p tags).
So, I thought of two other ways to go about it, but neither seems to be cutting the mustard.
Ideal method 1:
I would like to use Inspired’s ied_doArticle plugin (one of my favorites) because I already have that plugin installed and use it in other ways. This plugin works by identifying an article component by the article’s “id”, for example <txp:ied_doArticle id="2" field="excerpt" textile="y" />. In most cases this is fine and dandy, but in this instance it doesn’t work because I need the “id” to process on the fly. What would work beautifully is if I could use id="<txp:article_id />", giving me…
<p class="xerpt"><txp:ied_doArticle id="<txp:article_id />" field="excerpt" textile="y" /></p>but sadly that doesn’t work. I haven’t been able to reach Yura (Inspired) about any possible mods.
Method 2:
The other approach, which I quick-stepped to try was the etz_striptags plugin. This does exactly what it’s supposed to do, leaving me with the ability to add my own p element with an included class attribute (hence the ability to custom style the excerpt)…
<p class="xerpt"><txp:etz_striptags><txp:excerpt /></txp:etz_striptags></p> Unfortunately, this renders both Textile and regular HTML syntax useless within the striptag tags, so while I can do global styling on the excerpt, I’m SOL for anything inline (abbr, em, strong, etc.).
Anyone have a bead on something I’m missing, another approach or a tweak to these plugins?
Last edited by Destry (2007-05-05 13:09:38)
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Re: Excerpt styling issue...must be missing the obvious ?
Oh blimey, so it’s this easy? Didn’t see that the first round of searching.
EDIT: Yep, it’s that easy, and it’s on an article-by-article basis. It’s funny how there’s just things that look you in the eye on a daily basis and you still see right through them.
Note to self: Pull your head out!
Last edited by Destry (2007-05-05 14:13:50)
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