Displaying MODx tags in an (X)HTML page

Just a tip for anyone wanting to display MODx tags in an HTML page. I’ll use [*content*] as an example

The problem:

If you just type [*content*] it will be parsed by MODx, regardless if its in a CSS <pre> or <code> tag and output the result.

The Display Snippet outputs the content of a snippet, where as I just wanted the tag syntax.

The soloution:

Therefore you can use [&lowast;content&lowast;] but it doesn’t copy and paste well

Or you can use [<!-- -->*content*<!-- -->] which works and can be copied and pasted.

Big thanks to OpenGeek and Vbrilon for solving it for me

Great TIP!!

Thanks for sharing.

regards,

zi

Thanks for that!

Will become handy when I’m writing up some of my own online MODx Documentation (if I ever get around to it).

That’s a safer method that using html entities in FCKEdit; it is very rude about converting your nice safe entities back into tags!

Great tip indeed !

Nice to know

Nice useful tips.

Added to repository.

If you just type [*content*] it will be parsed by MODx

what do you mean by "parsed by MODx" ?

I use [*content*] and have not noticed anything unusual

Are you using Safari still bugsmi0? RTEs don’t work in Safari which is why it’s working for you (rich text editors like FCK and Tiny MCE). What they’re referring to is physically ouptuting "[*content*]" to the browser verbatim without it being turned into the actual content of the page.

Quote from: Briggsy at Mar 02, 2006, 12:40 AM

Just a tip for anyone wanting to display MODx tags in an HTML page. I’ll use [*content*] as an example

The problem:

If you just type [*content*] it will be parsed by MODx, regardless if its in a CSS <pre> or <code> tag and output the result.

The Display Snippet outputs the content of a snippet, where as I just wanted the tag syntax.

The soloution:

Therefore you can use [&lowast;content&lowast;] but it doesn’t copy and paste well

Or you can use [<!-- -->*content*<!-- -->] which works and can be copied and pasted.

Big thanks to OpenGeek and Vbrilon for solving it for me

thanks!, this explains the problem I was having I thought it was kinda odd <pre> didn’t work - now I can stop using jpeg’s for code examples

Quote from: rthrash at Mar 24, 2006, 12:18 PM

Are you using Safari still bugsmi0? RTEs don’t work in Safari which is why it’s working for you (rich text editors like FCK and Tiny MCE). What they’re referring to is physically ouptuting "[*content*]" to the browser verbatim without it being turned into the actual content of the page.

Yes using Safari the world’s #1 rocking browser he he, but lately been using camino for editing purposes, i’ve tested the site in safari, camino, firefox and nothing unusual using [*content*]

when you say physically outputting you mean typing just [*content*] ? I have uses only that and it works in the browser i mentioned, what browser does it get messed up in ?