Quotes in VAR values?

[davee123]

I was trying to do something like this:

[-- VAR.mylink "<a href="mylink.html">Link Text</a>" --]

Except... well, obviously that won't work, because there's quotes in the value! I tried a few more-or-less standard things like:

[-- VAR.mylink '<a href="mylink.html">Link Text</a>' --]
[-- VAR.mylink "<a href=\"mylink.html\">Link Text</a>" --]
[-- VAR.mylink "<a href=&quot;mylink.html&quot;>Link Text</a>" --]

But these didn't seem to work. Is there any way to actually put quotes in there?

DaveE

[ShopSite Lauren]

I don't know of a way to put quotes in the VAR tags. However, you can set up the VAR tag with the URL in it:

[--VAR.mylink http://mylink.com/index.html --]

Then in the code, you can include the code for the link, and just use the var for the URL. For example:

<a href="[-- VAR.mylink --]">My Link</a>

-Lauren

[davee123]

I don't know of a way to put quotes in the VAR tags.

Aww, booo!

However, you can set up the VAR tag with the URL in it:

[--VAR.mylink http://mylink.com/index.html --]

Then in the code, you can include the code for the link, and just use the var for the URL. For example:

<a href="[-- VAR.mylink --]">My Link</a>

Yep! For now, I don't actually need the double quotes, because HTML is sloppy and will interpret my links just fine without double quotes. But god forbid someday that I need something like:

[-- VAR.my_img "<img src=/images/foo.gif onmouseover="javascript:alert('you\'re on my page')">" --]

Essentially, I'm setting a variable for shorthand-- I could just put it in hard-coded to use the double quotes, but that would seem to defeat the purpose. I suppose the god-forbid solution would be to put it in an include file, so it's a composition of VAR's and INCLUDE's, but blech

DaveE