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fanderson

Posted: 09 April 2008 08:14 AM

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In the Form Helper instructions we have the following example:

<input type="text" name="{exp:form_helper:field_grabber field_name='summary'}" value="{summary}" />

<input type="hidden" name="{exp:form_helper:field_grabber field_name='summary' which='format'}" value="br" />

What is the intent of the value="br"?

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Pie Man

Posted: 09 April 2008 08:30 AM

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It auto adds
formatting to linebreaks

Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener

That is what I truly want to be

‘Cause if I were an Oscar Mayer wiener

Everyone would be in love with me.

Would format as:

Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener
<br />
That is what I truly want to be
<br />
Cause if I were an Oscar Mayer wiener
<br />
Everyone would be in love with me.

And would render on your template like this:

Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener

That is what I truly want to be

‘Cause if I were an Oscar Mayer wiener

Everyone would be in love with me.

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fanderson

Posted: 09 April 2008 08:35 AM

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So if I really don’t want line breaks between my stanzas (because I am a horrible singer anyway) then I would remove value="br" ?

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Pie Man

Posted: 09 April 2008 08:38 AM

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Your options are:

xhtml
br
none

xhtml will basically put paragraph tags around your paragraphs/linebreaks:

<p>
Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener
</p>
<p>
That is what I truly want to be
</p>
<p>
Cause if I were an Oscar Mayer wiener
</p>
<p>
Everyone would be in love with me.
</p>

If you want no formatting, choose “none”

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Grant

Posted: 12 May 2008 01:34 PM

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It is possible to use other formatting plugins such as markdown or are the options limited to the default EE options (ie, xhtml, br or none)?

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Pie Man

Posted: 13 May 2008 06:05 AM

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Grant - 12 May 2008 01:34 PM
It is possible to use other formatting plugins such as markdown or are the options limited to the default EE options (ie, xhtml, br or none)?

Grant,

You might be able to use something like Markdown, though I’ve never tested it
I would just omit the Parse pair from the field, and wrap it with the Markdown tags…

See if that works

People have also used stuff like TinyMCE, so I don’t see this being too much a problem

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