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#1 2009-05-21 19:48:17
- ookpik
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Putting a link in an image caption?
Hi folks.
Anyone got a trick for putting a valid link in the image caption field? I use linked photo credits all the time (for example), and it would be great to save the credit with the image. (Currently I paste the image into an article and type the caption there.) This is especially necessary for a site I’m building now where non-tech people will be re-using images.
When I use Textile or HTML in the caption, it gets escaped and printed out as is. Like this:
"Photo by Peter Gardner / pg photos":http://pgphotos.org/?p=93
or
<a href="http://pgphotos.org/?p=93">Photo by Peter Gardner / pg photos</a>
I don’t think upm_textile can do the trick because of the escaping.
My remaining ideas are to hack Txp to turn off escaping in the caption field (sketchy!), or use php to de-escape the caption, then wrap it in upm_textile (convoluted!).
Thanks for any other angles on this. I hope I’m missing something simple!
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Re: Putting a link in an image caption?
My soo_image plugin has a caption tag with an escape attribute. I’m guessing the other major image plugins also have this.
Code is topiary
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#3 2009-05-21 20:16:57
- ookpik
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Re: Putting a link in an image caption?
@#$*
Annnnd…. missing something simple.
I should have mentioned (!) that I was using the mighty upm_image to output the image caption, and it has an “escape” attribute.
Thanks for sharing my awkward moment.
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Re: Putting a link in an image caption?
How can I put a link in the occasional image caption preferably using only the new image tags?
Last edited by joebaich (2012-10-13 13:47:06)
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#5 2012-10-13 13:57:06
- GugUser
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Re: Putting a link in an image caption?
<txp:image_info /> shows a HTML-link in a caption text, and the link works.
Last edited by GugUser (2012-10-13 14:00:17)
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Re: Putting a link in an image caption?
Something like this as a caption doesn’t produce a link for me.
This is a caption containing <a href="http://mysite.com>a link to my site</a>
It just appears verbatim in the caption.
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#7 2012-10-13 16:45:42
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Re: Putting a link in an image caption?
I tested it in a site with the following context and it works in the part title="<txp:image_info />" in the form:
<txp:images sort='field(id, <txp:custom_field name="article_image" />)' wraptag="ul" class="galerie" break="li" form="fotos-galerie-miniaturen" />Form:
<a href="<txp:image_url />" class="gross" title="<txp:image_info />"><img src="<txp:image_url thumbnail="1" />" width="<txp:image_info type="thumb_w" />" height="<txp:image_info type="thumb_h" />" alt="<txp:image_info type="alt" />" /></a>The caption text is stored with the image in the image page.
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#8 2012-10-13 16:54:02
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Re: Putting a link in an image caption?
Zoom the last image at the bottom.
Edit: The temporary example was removed.
Last edited by GugUser (2012-10-18 23:57:33)
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Re: Putting a link in an image caption?
joebaich wrote:
Something like this as a caption doesn’t produce a link for me.
This is a caption containing <a href="http://mysite.com>a link to my site</a>It just appears verbatim in the caption.
Hi Joe can you please post the code you are using?
> edited to add
<txp:image_info type="caption" escape="" /> might work for you
Last edited by colak (2012-10-13 17:15:10)
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Re: Putting a link in an image caption?
GugUser thank you for the rapid response and live example. I will see if I can adapt that to my current requirement which is an ad hoc link in an article image caption. I need to provide an attribution link for the image I want to use.
colak My code
<txp:if_article_image><txp:images><txp:article_image class="fine-border"/><txp:image_info type="caption" wraptag="span" class="img_cap" /></txp:images></txp:if_article_image>
As indicated above, my link was straight HTML witten into the caption associated with the image.
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Re: Putting a link in an image caption?
colak wrote:
<txp:image_info type="caption" escape="" />might work for you
It did! Thanks Yiannis.
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#12 2012-10-13 17:44:33
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Re: Putting a link in an image caption?
In my example the Link <a href="http://san-andres-ev.de/">Home</a> is written into the caption associated with the image, like you propose.
And: You don’t need the <txp:article_image /> tag and type="caption" is default.
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