Hi all,

I need to be able to insert links to a nonsense string using the
htmlplaceholdercontrol but I doesn't seem to let me, is there any way
around it?  I try and create a link like follows <a
href="[Link]"><[Link]</a> so that I can later substitute [Link] 
for a
value at render time but the href="[Link]" becomes
href="/path/to/mcmstemplatefolder/[Link]" instead.  The link text is
not effected.

This is using the Telerik RadEditor for MCMS (2.1.2) but I beleive the
behaviour is CMS specific.

Any ideas?

Chandy

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MCMS does try to validate the link if it thinks that the destination is
within the MCMS repository.  I would try one of two things: 1) make
your arbitrary tag look nothing like a link (e.g. [MYLINK] instead of
<a href="[LINK]">; this way your avoid validation or 2) create a custom
placeholder that more appropriate deals with your tag.  In fact, the
second approach may be better long term, since you can deal with
rendering the appropriate link within the placeholder, instead of
having to add a bunch of code within the template's code behind.

Shawn

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Hi Chandy,

I would suggest to escape the whole anchor tag:

~LT~A href="[Link]"~GT~[Link]~LT~/a~GT~

Then replace ~LT~ with < and ~GT~ with > on render time together with the
link.

Cheers,
Stefan

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"Chandy" <chandy@totalise.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I need to be able to insert links to a nonsense string using the
> htmlplaceholdercontrol but I doesn't seem to let me, is there any way
> around it?  I try and create a link like follows <a
> href="[Link]"><[Link]</a> so that I can later substitute [Link
] for a
> value at render time but the href="[Link]" becomes
> href="/path/to/mcmstemplatefolder/[Link]" instead.  The link text is
> not effected.
>
> This is using the Telerik RadEditor for MCMS (2.1.2) but I beleive the
> behaviour is CMS specific.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Chandy
>

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