TV attributes question (Revo)

I’m wondering about the use of the Attributes field for TVs with Image or HTML Tag output types. My first guess was that it’s there for extra attributes (e.g. height and width for images) but it doesn’t accept equals signs or quotation marks. Is it crippled or there for another purpose?

Quote from: BobRay at Jun 14, 2009, 06:54 AM

I’m wondering about the use of the Attributes field for TVs with Image or HTML Tag output types. My first guess was that it’s there for extra attributes (e.g. height and width for images) but it doesn’t accept equals signs or quotation marks. Is it crippled or there for another purpose?

There’s been no change in this behavior from Evo AFAIK. This stores the additional attributes for use with the output widgets, but I think those are up to each output type to store/process as needed.

Quote from: OpenGeek at Jun 14, 2009, 03:07 PM

Quote from: BobRay at Jun 14, 2009, 06:54 AM

I’m wondering about the use of the Attributes field for TVs with Image or HTML Tag output types. My first guess was that it’s there for extra attributes (e.g. height and width for images) but it doesn’t accept equals signs or quotation marks. Is it crippled or there for another purpose?

There’s been no change in this behavior from Evo AFAIK. This stores the additional attributes for use with the output widgets, but I think those are up to each output type to store/process as needed.

As far as I can see, they’re either ignored, or just thrown into the output as is as long as they don’t contain quotes or equal signs.

I’m looking at the code in /core/model/modx/processors/element/tv/renders/web/output/. Is there anywhere else to look?

The only Element I know of that uses attributes is Wayfinder for building menus.

Quote from: rthrash at Jun 15, 2009, 02:08 PM

The only Element I know of that uses attributes is Wayfinder for building menus.

He’s talking about the attributes for output widgets; has no relation to Wayfinder or any extras for that matter.