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#1 2011-08-18 03:30:40
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Article Image Thumbnail Hyperlink -- Why Not To Itself?
Wondering how one miight use the article image as a thumbnail link.
I know this code below IS NOT correct as it just links to the article, (like say, from article listing view vs a single article view)
<txp:permlink><txp:article_image thumbnail=“1” /><txp:permlink>
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Re: Article Image Thumbnail Hyperlink -- Why Not To Itself?
You want to link to the image or to the article associated with the image? Your question is unclear.
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#3 2011-08-18 05:53:16
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Re: Article Image Thumbnail Hyperlink -- Why Not To Itself?
I want to link to the article image’s “large” version from a thumbnail.
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how about?
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#5 2011-08-18 15:12:10
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Re: Article Image Thumbnail Hyperlink -- Why Not To Itself?
jakob wrote:
how about?
<a href="<txp:images><txp:image_url /></txp:images>"><txp:article_image thumbnail="1" /></a>That seems to have worked. Earlier, I had tried to use the txp:images tag but it was producing strange results. I wasnt sure I could put that long bit of txp:images code inside the ahref’s value. Thanks so much for giving me a better clue on how to do this in the future.
Incidentally, my other admin is not as code savvy so I know I could of probably installed hak_tinymce (if it had been working) to make this easier in the future.
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Re: Article Image Thumbnail Hyperlink -- Why Not To Itself?
Wherever possible I try and avoid any site editors from having to insert or even think about code like that. All of the above I put into a page template or form and design the page template so that it respond to whatever is entered in the article_image field (or custom_field, or category and so on). You need to use lots of txp:if… conditionals tags but you end up with a more robust site…
I wasnt sure I could put that long bit of txp:images code inside the a href’s value.
You can use lots of txp:tags in an html tag attribute such as the href in the example above. If you want to use the output of a txp:tag inside an attribute of another txp:tag, you have to place it in single quotes (like in the variable tag in the other thread). You can also use a whole series of tags in that situation (provided you nest them properly) but sometimes it is more readable (= easier to follow when you revisit it at a later date) to put the long details in a variable first, and then insert the variable as the tag in tag, particularly if you need to insert that code more than once.
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Re: Article Image Thumbnail Hyperlink -- Why Not To Itself?
If you absolutly HAVE to put code in an article or have site editors do so them smd_macros may help.
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