Gallery description - can I put html in?

chet79 · September 9, 2006

I tried to put a html link into a description of one of my galleries, as follows:

<a href="http://www.url.com>Info on xyz gallery</a>

When I go into the gallery, the link works, yet it's not clickable from the main gallery page.

Andy · September 9, 2006

chet79 wrote:
I tried to put a html link into a description of one of my galleries, as follows:
<a href="http://www.url.com>Info on xyz gallery</a>
When I go into the gallery, the link works, yet it's not clickable from the main gallery page.

Hi Chet <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/wave.gif" border="0" alt="" >

Sure you can. Surround it all with

<html>
blah blah blah your text and html here
</html>

Providing a gallery link will allow me to help you further

Barb · September 9, 2006

chet79 wrote:
I tried to put a html link into a description of one of my galleries, as follows:
<a href="http://www.url.com>Info on xyz gallery</a>
When I go into the gallery, the link works, yet it's not clickable from the main gallery page.

Hi

Be sure and surround your HTML with tags, i.e., <html>blah blah blah</html>.

chet79 · September 9, 2006

thanks fellas. Like this?

<html>
<a href="http://www.url.com>Info on xyz gallery</a>
</html>

gallery: http://chet.smugmug.com/gallery/1855349

Andy · September 9, 2006

chet79 wrote:
thanks fellas. Like this?
<html>
<a href="http://www.url.com>Info on xyz gallery</a>
</html>
gallery: http://chet.smugmug.com/gallery/1855349

chet79 · September 9, 2006

it didn't seem to help though <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/eek7.gif" border="0" alt="" >

From the front main galleries (http://chet.smugmug.com/Urbex) page, the text "info on Jaques" isn't clickable.

I've also put a tag in to put "Info at Jaques" under "Saturday 29 July 2006", and it didn't work.

Allen · September 10, 2006

chet79 wrote:

it didn't seem to help though <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/eek7.gif" border="0" alt="" >

From the front main galleries (http://chet.smugmug.com/Urbex) page, the text "info on Jaques" isn't clickable.

I've also put a tag in to put "Info at Jaques" under "Saturday 29 July 2006", and it didn't work.

I discovered the same thing yesterday, kept editing thinking I'd
done something wrong. Only to discover it only worked once in the
gallery not on the main page.
Al

chet79 · September 10, 2006

So there's no way of putting a clickable-URL in the main gallery page? :cry

Allen · September 10, 2006

chet79 wrote:

So there's no way of putting a clickable-URL in the main gallery page? :cry

I did not find any so gave up even though it looks odd there.

colourbox · September 10, 2006

<html>
<a href="http://www.url.com>Info on xyz gallery</a>
</html>

If that code won't work, it might be because it's missing a closing double quotation mark at the end of the URL.

ivar · September 10, 2006

colourbox wrote:
<html>
<a href="http://www.url.com>Info on xyz gallery</a>
</html>
If that code won't work, it might be because it's missing a closing double quotation mark at the end of the URL.

<img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/15524779-Ti.gif" border="0" alt="" > i think that's what the problem is. add that (see the green bit below), and let us know if that was the problem!

<html>
<a href="http://www.url.com[COLOR=Lime]"[/COLOR]>Info on xyz gallery</a>
</html>

chet79 · September 10, 2006

good pickup guys, but that's not it... here's my code, directly copied out of my description box:

Saturday 29 July 2006
<html><br>
<a href="http://www.austrade.gov.au/corporate/layout/0,,0_S1-1_-2_5-3_CANB18170-4_-5_-6_-7_,00.html">Info on Jaques</a>
</html>

ivar · September 10, 2006

chet79 wrote:
good pickup guys, but that's not it... here's my code, directly copied out of my description box:
Saturday 29 July 2006
<html> 
<a href="http://www.austrade.gov.au/corporate/layout/0,,0_S1-1_-2_5-3_CANB18170-4_-5_-6_-7_,00.html">Info on Jaques</a>
</html>

Everything has to be within the html tags. Put the "Saturday 29 July 2006" between them aswell. If that doesn't work, can you give us a link to the problem?

chet79 · September 10, 2006

didn't work

Here's the main gallery page:
http://chet.smugmug.com/Urbex

It's the Jaques Engineering gallery. From the main gallery view, the "Info on Jaques" isn't visible. But once inside the gallery, it is.

ivar · September 10, 2006

chet79 wrote:

didn't work

Here's the main gallery page:
http://chet.smugmug.com/Urbex

It's the Jaques Engineering gallery. From the main gallery view, the "Info on Jaques" isn't visible. But once inside the gallery, it is.

Now i see what you mean. That's the way it should behave. You have put a in there, combine that with the link, and it takes up too much space to show in the main gallery page. The size is limited in the main view, unlike inside the gallery. I hope this helps.

chet79 · September 10, 2006

any suggestions on where I could put the link?

Barb · September 10, 2006

chet79 wrote:

any suggestions on where I could put the link?

Hi

I just made a quick change to your link. See if it's okay the way it is now. I took the out, replaced with a colon.

chet79 · September 10, 2006

thanks Barb, but it didn't help

jwilkinson · September 12, 2006

When I went back to check my own smugmug area, most of my links in gallery descriptions are working just fine for me with no html pair around them.

Oddly enough, I did have a couple that i'd put links into before, and they didn't work.
BUT, when I clicked edit, looked at the code, and just hit save (didn't change anything), then they worked.

So, there might have been some change, so if you had links in before that aren't working, try just doing and Edit and Save to see if that fixes it.

Update: well, I *thought* it worked... the links worked while I was logged in, but they disappeared when I looked at the smugmug pages logged out. The links aren't showing there whether you surround them with the HTML pair or not. (they do work on gallery view pages though) Nuts!

example) "our worship services" is linked
http://centralpc.smugmug.com/Our%20people (links not showing)
http://centralpc.smugmug.com/gallery/1880605 (links are showing)

Now I wish we could assign a Category Description, so we could have a block of description text for each category. It would show up next to the category image on the homepage in the "gallery categories" section, and at the top of the page when in a category page. ...

And that the home and category pages showed more description text. It's truncating some of mine pretty short... grrr...

later,
jeff

Andy · September 12, 2006

jwilkinson wrote:

Now I wish we could assign a Category Description, so we could have a block of description text for each category. It would show up next to the category image on the homepage in the "gallery categories" section, and at the top of the page when in a category page. ...

Wish Granted:

My FAQ: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=26043

#69 http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=241923#post241923

dogwood · September 12, 2006

andy the genie

Andy wrote:

Wish Granted:

My FAQ: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=26043

#69 http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=241923#post241923

Only three wishes and you wasted one on that?

chet79 · September 12, 2006

jwilkinson wrote:

Update: well, I *thought* it worked... the links worked while I was logged in, but they disappeared when I looked at the smugmug pages logged out. The links aren't showing there whether you surround them with the HTML pair or not. (they do work on gallery view pages though) Nuts!

example) "our worship services" is linked
http://centralpc.smugmug.com/Our%20people (links not showing)
http://centralpc.smugmug.com/gallery/1880605 (links are showing)

EXACTLY the same thing is happening to me

:

Andy?

devbobo · September 12, 2006

chet79 wrote:

didn't work

Hey Chet,

Unfortunately, SM strips certain HTML out of the Gallery description, but don't despair...YUI to the rescue.

Add this code to your JS block...

YE.onAvailable('albumDescription_1855349', function () {this.innerHTML = this.innerHTML.replace(/(Info on Jaques)/,"<a href=\"http://www.austrade.gov.au/corporate/layout/0,,0_S1-1_-2_5-3_CANB18170-4_-5_-6_-7_,00.html\">$1</a>")});

Cheers,

David

chet79 · September 12, 2006

thanks for that. Where exactly do I stick this code? (sorry a bit new to customising my SM acct).

devbobo · September 12, 2006

chet79 wrote:

thanks for that. Where exactly do I stick this code? (sorry a bit new to customising my SM acct).

javascript block

chet79 · September 13, 2006

sorry, but I can't for the life of me find that

jwilkinson · September 15, 2006

Andy wrote:

Wish Granted:
My FAQ: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=26043
#69 http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=241923#post241923

Uh, that requires a power or pro account doesn't it?
We've only got standard.

jwilkinson · September 15, 2006

devbobo wrote:
Hey Chet,

Unfortunately, SM strips certain HTML out of the Gallery description, but don't despair...YUI to the rescue.

Add this code to your JS block...
YE.onAvailable('albumDescription_1855349', function () {this.innerHTML = this.innerHTML.replace(/(Info on Jaques)/,"<a href=\"http://www.austrade.gov.au/corporate/layout/0,,0_S1-1_-2_5-3_CANB18170-4_-5_-6_-7_,00.html\">$1</a>")});
Cheers, David

Again, something that requires a power or pro account to do, right?

Can we get this fixed in a way that works for the standard accounts?
Why the heck *should* it strip all HTML here? If you really don't want to open it up to allowing just any html, then at least let us use some kind of 'forum code' to add linked text. For Pete's sake, (and mine) this isn't rocket science.
Why doesn't something important like this work already - and without hacks?

And please fix the description lengths too while you are at it, so it quits truncating them so short on the homepage. Yeah, I know I could customize that in a power/pro account too...

jwilkinson · September 15, 2006

fwiw, the SM webtricks blog has this entry:

Using HTML in your bio, caption or description
http://blogs.smugmug.com/web-tricks/2005/09/02/using-html-in-your-bio-caption-or-description/

This seems to work fine for links in the description when you are looking at the gallery itself, but, as stated before, when you log out and look at the category pages, homepage, etc, the descriptions there aren't showing the links.

And it's fooling you by showing them when you *are* logged in.

So, since it's obviously broken, can we get a fix?
(for all levels of accounts, not just those who can customize themes)
Or at least get some SM person to tell us what their intent is here and why it's acting this way? (though I can't imagine this is on purpose)

thanks,
jw

chet79 · September 16, 2006

jwilkinson wrote:

So, since it's obviously broken, can we get a fix?
(for all levels of accounts, not just those who can customize themes)
Or at least get some SM person to tell us what their intent is here and why it's acting this way? (though I can't imagine this is on purpose)

same! I do not understand this

chet79 · September 24, 2006

anyone? would love to see a fix for this

Gallery description - can I put html in?

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