using txp tags in article body

Algaris · 2012-02-06 14:08:09

I’m trying to put the following code in my article body but whenever I preview the article nothing is displayed.

<video poster="<txp:image id="31" width="358" height="269" controls preload> 
    <source src="<txp:site_url />files/video.mp4"></source> 
    <source src="<txp:site_url />files/video.ogv"></source>
</video>

Upon further investigation I found even a simple link such as <a href="<txp:site_url />download.txt">Download</a> wouldn’t display.

If I remove <txp:image /> and <txp:site_url /> and replace them with absolute paths to the files everything works fine.

Last edited by Algaris (2012-02-06 14:09:55)

Bloke · 2012-02-06 14:14:31

Algaris

Textile is probably fouling things up. Surround your <video>... </video> with == or use notextile. at the start and see if things improve.

Dragondz · 2012-02-06 14:18:33

try this

==<video poster="<txp:image id="31" width="358" height="269" controls preload><source src="<txp:site_url />files/video.mp4"></source><source src="<txp:site_url />files/video.ogv"></source></video>==


nb: bloke is faster

Last edited by Dragondz (2012-02-06 14:19:05)

Algaris · 2012-02-06 14:24:11

Thanks Stef

I tried both == and notextile. Neither of which worked. I then went into the Advanced Markup options and set both the Article and Excerpt Markup to ‘Leave Text Untouched’and still got the same results.

Dragondz · 2012-02-06 14:30:19

if the page online can you give us a link to see the result?

Bloke · 2012-02-06 14:30:58

Algaris

Ah, also remember to close your <txp:image> tag and poster attribute with />" after the height attribute :-)

Last edited by Bloke (2012-02-06 14:33:13)

Algaris · 2012-02-06 14:33:04

Unfortunately I’m on a virtual server that isn’t accessible outside my work premises.

Algaris · 2012-02-06 14:35:48

Thanks Stef. I’ve replaced the line of code with: <video poster='<txp:image id="31" />' width="358" height="269" controls preload>

Still no joy though.

—Edit—

Doing ==<a href="<txp:site_url />download.txt">Download</a>== works fine. So there must be an error with my code.

Last edited by Algaris (2012-02-06 14:41:24)

Bloke · 2012-02-06 14:43:33

Weird, this works fine for me:

==<video poster='<txp:image id="31" />' width="358" height="269" controls preload> 
    <source src="<txp:site_url />files/video.mp4"></source> 
    <source src="<txp:site_url />files/video.ogv"></source>
</video>==

The problem is definitely a combination of using double quotes in double quotes (as returned by the <txp:image> tag) and then throwing Textile on top didn’t help. The single quotes solved the former issue, and == solved the latter. It’s not obvious though!

Last edited by Bloke (2012-02-06 14:44:52)

Algaris · 2012-02-06 14:48:36

Maybe it’s something to do with my servers configuration? I’m sure I had something similar working on our live site (on a different server) in the past.

Ah, here we go. http://example.com/film

—Edit—
I found that when I change the poster image to poster="<txp:site_url />images/31.jpg" it displays the image but none of the video controls work.

Last edited by Algaris (2013-07-10 22:55:09)

Bloke · 2012-02-06 14:55:42

Hmmm, maybe. But I’d have thought it was something else.

Does it work if you use single quotes round the poster attribute? I had to check the source code to track the error down: Firefox helpfully highlighted the bogus output in red, which led me to the solution after a bit of trial and error.

Algaris · 2012-02-06 14:59:03

No that doesn’t work either. I get the video controls all greyed out and no poster image.

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using txp tags in article body

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