html not working in Gallery Description

Ponte · October 27, 2013

I have put this html into My Gallery Description but it does not work - however if I put it in an Image Caption then it does - how come
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html><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/52613786/web/Pontefract_Camera_Club/Score_Sheets.html">Score Sheets</a></html>

brandofamily · October 27, 2013

Ponte wrote: »

I have put this html into My Gallery Description but it does not work - however if I put it in an Image Caption then it does - how come
<img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/ne_nau.gif" border="0" alt="" >
html><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/52613786/web/Pontefract_Camera_Club/Score_Sheets.html">Score Sheets</a></html>

Oh, just a thought... I don't thing you need the html tags any longer....

rich56k · October 27, 2013

Ponte wrote: »

I have put this html into My Gallery Description but it does not work - however if I put it in an Image Caption then it does - how come
<img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/ne_nau.gif" border="0" alt="" >
html><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/52613786/web/Pontefract_Camera_Club/Score_Sheets.html">Score Sheets</a></html>

This is working in my gallery descriptions currently...

<a href="http://www.motorcyclemayhem2006.com/home.html" target="_new">MotorcycleMayhemFlyer</a>

Note add the: target="_new" and it will open the link in a new window

Allen · October 27, 2013

If I enter into edit in NewSmug the html tags are removed on legacy and I have to keep adding them back in.
At least in the past. Looking now and testing I see it now completely borks my legacy description.

WARNING: If you have not unveiled do not do any gallery description editing in NewSmug. Switch to
legacy and do it there. Luckily I have two galleries with the almost identical html description so I can
recover but it will take a few hours.

ChancyRat · October 27, 2013

I thought if one wanted HTML as the gallery description, one needed to add an HTML block, and not work in the gallery description per se. Is my understanding incorrect?

denisegoldberg · October 27, 2013

ChancyRat wrote: »

I thought if one wanted HTML as the gallery description, one needed to add an HTML block, and not work in the gallery description per se. Is my understanding incorrect?

I often have HTML in my gallery descriptions in the form of a link to a set of blog posts. That continues to work in new smug - with the exception that adding <html> and </html> tags is not needed.

I also use HTML in photo captions.

--- Denise

Allen · October 27, 2013

denisegoldberg wrote: »

I often have HTML in my gallery descriptions in the form of a link to a set of blog posts. That continues to work in new smug - with the exception that adding <html> and </html> tags is not needed.

I also use HTML in photo captions.

--- Denise

Things from legacy do work in NewSmug as long as you don't try to edit. My legacy description html
looked fine in NewSmug until I went in and add something like xx in the text and saved. Then the
whole thing blew up. In my case I was using tables in legacy which looked fine in NewSmug but not after
entering edit. Striped it all out.

ChancyRat · October 27, 2013

Allen wrote: »

Things from legacy do work in NewSmug as long as you don't try to edit. My legacy description html
looked fine in NewSmug until I went in and add something like xx in the text and saved. Then the
whole thing blew up. In my case I was using tables in legacy which looked fine in NewSmug but not after
entering edit. Striped it all out.

I think one is not supposed to use html in new SM gallery descriptions.
Because I see much broken HTML in legacy galleries currently, I've assumed I need to reproduce my html in html blocks in new SM.

Maybe small things like links work but I don't understand that either.

Does SM have a posted page on what format or rules apply to gallery descriptions in new SM?

Allen · October 27, 2013

ChancyRat wrote: »

I think one is not supposed to use html in new SM gallery descriptions.
Because I see much broken HTML in legacy galleries currently, I've assumed I need to reproduce my html in html blocks in new SM.

Maybe small things like links work but I don't understand that either.

Does SM have a posted page on what format or rules apply to gallery descriptions in new SM?

HTML still works in description and captions.

denisegoldberg · October 27, 2013

ChancyRat wrote: »

I think one is not supposed to use html in new SM gallery descriptions.

I don't think there is a supposed to or not supposed to here - HTML works in gallery descriptions and in photo captions in new smug.

But - the HTML must be correct now where legacy smug let some incorrect syntax through.

--- Denise

Colgriff · November 9, 2013

HTML in captions

denisegoldberg wrote: »

I don't think there is a supposed to or not supposed to here - HTML works in gallery descriptions and in photo captions in new smug.

But - the HTML must be correct now where legacy smug let some incorrect syntax through.

--- Denise

Hi Denise,
Could you please give me an example of a working peice of HTML in a caption?

My legacy captions contained this type of comment below, but will not work in the new Smugmug?

<html>
 
<object width="300" height="42"><param name="src" value="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50808807/Australian%20Wood%20Duck.mp3"><param name="autoplay" value="false"><param name="controller" value="true"><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"><embed height="42" width="300" src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50808807/Australian%20Wood%20Duck.mp3" bgcolor="#9FB6CD" controller="true" loop="false" autostart="false"></object>
</html>

Thanks,
Colin.

thenickdude · November 9, 2013

Object tags are not supported in New SmugMug. Neither are , , or .

Colgriff · November 9, 2013

HTML Audio

Lamah wrote: »

Object tags are not supported in New SmugMug. Neither are <script>, <iframe>, or <embed>.

Thanks for the super quick response Lamah,

Before I go and test out a different way how about the <audio> tag in Html5?

... and if this is not supported either, can you please suggest a different approach to playing a sound from a caption/picture?

Thanks,
Colin

www.wildbirdsofaustralia.com.au

thenickdude · November 9, 2013

HTML5 <audio> and <video> tags aren't supported either. Not, I think, because SmugMug explicitly wants to block them, but simply because they haven't had many requests to turn them on yet. If you want the <video> tag, add a comment to my feature request here:

http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=242015

If you want <audio> tags to be supported, I would suggest posting a request to the feature request forum too.

It is currently impossible to play sound from captions or pictures.

Luc De Jaeger · December 31, 2013

I just wanted to change the color of some text in a gallery description (there were already some words between the xxxxxxxx tags) and after clicking 'done', ALL my text colors in the gallery description were gone (even the ones that after migration in September showed up); just the bold ( xxx ) tags were saved and now there is no colored text anymore in the gallery description....

It's about the http://lucdejaeger.smugmug.com/Personal/My-Ultimate-Collection/n-HRxtc gallery.

Interestingly, the gallery descriptions of all the other (unchanged) migrated galleries still show colored texts...<img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/eek7.gif" border="0" alt="" >

Something is wrong here. It seems the gallery description, after editing, still does not save all HTML codes...<img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/headscratch.gif" border="0" alt="" >cry

Luc

Allen · December 31, 2013

Try using xxxx xxxx

beardedgit · December 31, 2013

Luc De Jaeger wrote: »

Something is wrong here. It seems the gallery description, after editing, still does not save all HTML codes...cry

Luc

Hi Luc.

It's a long-shot, but you might find that it's dependent on the gallery type - I've found that some HTML in captions that works in Lightbox, SmugMug-style and Journal, won't work in Collage Landscape, Collage Portrait and Thumbnail. See http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=240216 for an example of how italics are treated.

Helpdesk were going to escalate this problem to the technical department but I've no idea if they actually did - I've had no feedback regarding this matter.

I've also asked to see the HTML whitelist for content blocks - see http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=244052 - maybe that'll help us to find out why some of our HTML doesn't stick there and in other places?

Luc De Jaeger · December 31, 2013

Allen wrote: »

Try using xxxx xxxx

Thanks Allen for the suggestion but it did not work.

Luc

Luc De Jaeger · December 31, 2013

beardedgit wrote: »

Hi Luc.

It's a long-shot, but you might find that it's dependent on the gallery type - I've found that some HTML in captions that works in Lightbox, SmugMug-style and Journal, won't work in Collage Landscape, Collage Portrait and Thumbnail. See http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=240216 for an example of how italics are treated.

Helpdesk were going to escalate this problem to the technical department but I've no idea if they actually did - I've had no feedback regarding this matter.

I've also asked to see the HTML whitelist for content blocks - see http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=244052 - maybe that'll help us to find out why some of our HTML doesn't stick there and in other places?

Thanks so much, I'll take a closer look at this.

Luc

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