I've made sure that JT has seen this. It's his daughter's first birthday today, Sunday, so I'm not sure when he'll get back to this thread, but it shouldn't be later than tomorrow.
We strip all HTML from the captions for galleries when viewed from your homepage or category page because we truncate them. So instead of having a page full of bolded or linked text because one of your closing tags was left out - you just have nice plain text.
I have been thinking about a solution to make everyone happy - and so far have come up enmpty handed. I will keep at it.
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)
We strip all HTML from the captions for galleries when viewed from your homepage or category page because we truncate them. So instead of having a page full of bolded or linked text because one of your closing tags was left out - you just have nice plain text.
I have been thinking about a solution to make everyone happy - and so far have come up enmpty handed. I will keep at it.
Hmm. I'll have to think on that. As you say, no easy answers.
At very least, if you all can update the info on using html in these fields to mention these limitations it would have sure saved a bunch of us some aggravation.
thanks for the reply. let's keep talking about this to see if we can come up with something better.
jeff
At very least, if you all can update the info on using html in these fields to mention these limitations it would have sure saved a bunch of us some aggravation.
I'll make sure this gets into the help pages. Thanks!
Now i see what you mean. That's the way it should behave. You have put a <br> 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.
Sorry if it has been asked already (and answered), but is there any way to increase that gallery description text size limit on the category page ?
<html>
<font-size: 16px;> blab blab </font>
</html>
Al
Thanks Al, but I miscommunicate what I meant ... I mean to ask if there was a way to display more descriptive text on the category page ... to avoid the truncation and also have the HTML show up all on the page.
Cause I'd really want to have the links show up for visitors
no probs. It's 2pm on a lazy Sunday afternoon (new years eve in fact) hehe
problem was, I can put html code in a gallery description, for example - a external html link. It works when I'm inside the gallery itself (link is clickable). But from the main galleries page (index), the text is not clickable...
no probs. It's 2pm on a lazy Sunday afternoon (new years eve in fact) hehe
problem was, I can put html code in a gallery description, for example - a external html link. It works when I'm inside the gallery itself (link is clickable). But from the main galleries page (index), the text is not clickable...
The html is stripped from the description when you go up a level. It's been
discussed in the past and the Smug brass confirmed it.
Al
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I've made sure that JT has seen this. It's his daughter's first birthday today, Sunday, so I'm not sure when he'll get back to this thread, but it shouldn't be later than tomorrow.
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I have been thinking about a solution to make everyone happy - and so far have come up enmpty handed. I will keep at it.
At very least, if you all can update the info on using html in these fields to mention these limitations it would have sure saved a bunch of us some aggravation.
thanks for the reply. let's keep talking about this to see if we can come up with something better.
jeff
-Anne
Frankly the html pair don't seem to be needed, so maybe that's obsolete?
http://blogs.smugmug.com/web-tricks/2005/09/02/using-html-in-your-bio-caption-or-description/
jw
Sorry if it has been asked already (and answered), but is there any way to increase that gallery description text size limit on the category page ?
Thank you,
<font-size: 16px;> blab blab </font>
</html>
Al
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Thanks Al, but I miscommunicate what I meant ... I mean to ask if there was a way to display more descriptive text on the category page ... to avoid the truncation and also have the HTML show up all on the page.
Cause I'd really want to have the links show up for visitors
Thanks,
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problem was, I can put html code in a gallery description, for example - a external html link. It works when I'm inside the gallery itself (link is clickable). But from the main galleries page (index), the text is not clickable...
discussed in the past and the Smug brass confirmed it.
Al
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was just wondering if anyone had worked out a way around it...
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