ListPages Breaks Tables and In-line Formatting

ListPages Breaks Tables and In-line Formatting

bryanburke 09 Jun 2008 16:15

I've been using the new ListPages module, and I've noticed that in certain cases it breaks other elements. For starters, any in-line formatting (span) found within the module is broken by line breaks:

[[module ListPages category="category"]]
[[span class="class"]]
%%linked_title%%
%%description%%
[[/span]]
[[span class="class"]]
%%author%%
%%date%%
%%tags%%
[[/span]]
[[/module]]

Also, if you try to make the ListPages module list each page on a separate table row or cell, the table breaks:

[[table class="class"]]
[[module ListPages category="category"]]
[[row]]
[[cell]]
%%linked_title%%
%%description%%
[[/cell]]
[[cell class="class"]]
%%author%%
%%date%%
%%tags%%
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[/module]]
[[/table]]

Currently, the only workaround I know of is to place all table elements within the module, but this creates a new table for every page listed:

[[module ListPages category="category"]]
[[table class="class"]]
[[row]]
[[cell]]
%%linked_title%%
%%description%%
[[/cell]]
[[cell class="class"]]
%%author%%
%%date%%
%%tags%%
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[/table]]
[[/module]]

This happens with the separate option set to true or false. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Last edited on 09 Jun 2008 16:21 by bryanburke + Show more

Re: ListPages Breaks Tables and In-line Formatting

ErichSteinboeck 09 Jun 2008 20:03

> if you try to make the ListPages module list each page on a separate table row or cell, the table breaks

Use prependLine="…" and appendLine="…" as in the following code:

[[module ListPages category="..." separate="false" _
prependLine="[[table]]" appendLine="[[/table]]"]]
[[row]]
.
.
.
[[/row]]
[[/module]]

Re: ListPages Breaks Tables and In-line Formatting

bryanburke 09 Jun 2008 20:23

Thanks Erich! How would I do this if I want to add a class or style attribute to the table?

Re: ListPages Breaks Tables and In-line Formatting

ErichSteinboeck 09 Jun 2008 21:01

> I want to add a class or style attribute to the table

Try to add them to the relevant tags, like:

[[module ListPages category="..." separate="false" _
prependLine="[[table class="..."]]" appendLine="[[/table]]"]]
[[row style="..."]]
.
.
.
[[/row]]
[[/module]]

When I tried to add style="…" attributes though, I found a problem that I reported but didn't yet receive an answer.

Re: ListPages Breaks Tables and In-line Formatting

sur 09 Jun 2008 23:08

It doesn't work because there's not markup to nest quotation marks, i.e.

prependLine="[[table style="..."]]"

there has to be some markup to signify that the second quote above belongs to inner style parameter, and not ends the prependLine.

Re: ListPages Breaks Tables and In-line Formatting

James Kanjo 23 Nov 2008 11:25

Erich, tsch tsch tsch. The include guru forgot about the include!

I came accross this problem too. My workaround is this. Create a new include page called "inc:table" with the following source code:

[[table style="{$style}"]]

On the page where you needed attributes with the table, just use the code:

[[module ListPages category="..." separate="false" _
prependLine="[[include inc:table |style=attribute: value; attribute: value;]]" _
appendLine="[[/table]]"]]
[[row style="..."]]
.
.
.
[[/row]]
[[/module]]

It works perfectly! And you can share the inc:table page with similar situations on the same site.

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Last edited on 23 Nov 2008 11:43 by James Kanjo + Show more

Re: ListPages Breaks Tables and In-line Formatting

ErichSteinboeck 23 Nov 2008 14:34

Very neat hack to allow nested quotation marks within a module!

Just a few days I had posted a workaround for a very similar problem: how to have nested double closing brackets (]]) in an include. Gerdami has copied it in to a How-to Include variables with special characters.

Re: ListPages Breaks Tables and In-line Formatting

James Kanjo 23 Nov 2008 15:09

Yes, you are very talented — You actually posted that in response to something I brought up at pro.wikidot.com.

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Re: ListPages Breaks Tables and In-line Formatting

gerdami 23 Nov 2008 15:19

Just wondering whether the pipe is necessary in the fictitious example:

[[module ListPages category="..." separate="false" _

prependLine="[[include inc:table |style=attribute: value; attribute: value;]]" _

appendLine="[[/table]]"]]
[[row style="..."]]

However, I think that this should be added to howto:include-variables-with-special-characters…

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Re: ListPages Breaks Tables and In-line Formatting

ErichSteinboeck 23 Nov 2008 17:15

> wondering whether the pipe is necessary in the fictitious example
It's not.

Re: ListPages Breaks Tables and In-line Formatting

bryanburke 09 Jun 2008 22:59

Would it be possible to allow modules to take arguments with single quotes as well? This may solve this problem, as it would allow the server to parse correctly the code:

[[module ListPages category="category" separate="false" prependLine='[[table class="class" style="style"]]']]
...
[[/module]]

Also, would it be a good idea possibly to have all line breaks removed from ListPages's output when the separate option is set to false? In this way, spans would become functional within the ListPages module. If not, maybe all text within the ListPages module could be handled as though it were in a <pre> HTML tag:

[[module ListPages category="category"]]
%%title%% %%description%%
[[/module]]

would yield

PageName PageDescription

instead of

PageName
PageDescription

Re: ListPages Breaks Tables and In-line Formatting

sur 09 Jun 2008 23:28

I tried your latter case, and did not get a 2-line output. But my description content is strictly single line, no line breaks.
For the former case, you can try wrapping the module with a div block and delegate the table's style to it.

Re: ListPages Breaks Tables and In-line Formatting

bryanburke 10 Jun 2008 03:23

You're right, sur. I see now how the text inside the module is treated. Even span elements work with this approach:

[[module ListPages category="category"]]
[[span]]%%linked_title%% %%description%%[[/span]][[span]]%%author%% %%date%% %%tags%%[[/span]]
[[/module]]

I'm not quite sure what the separate option does, then.

As for wrapping the module with a div block, this would not imitate the table layout I have set up, as I have styles set up for the table itself, the table's rows, and the table's cells. Real bummer that the module is processed in a way that the table element becomes raw text rather than HTML code.

Last edited on 10 Jun 2008 03:31 by bryanburke + Show more