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Code being automatically replaced 8 years 2 weeks ago #4110

Neil Pollock
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I'm writing some MHRA referencing guidelines in a Bootstrap template. In this referencing style web pages should be enclosed within a set of angled brackets, for example:

Christel Lane and others, The Future of Professionalised Work: UK and Germany Compared (London: Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society, 2003) <www.agf.org.uk/pubs/pdfs/1232web.pdf> [accessed 12 December 2007] (p. 11)

So, I figured that this could simply be written in the Bootstrap page as:

&lt;http://www.agf.org.uk/pubs/pdfs/1232web.pdf&gt;

However, if you leave the page, then return to look at the source, you'll find it is has been changed to show:

<http://www.agf.org.uk/pubs/pdfs/1232web.pdf>

If you leave and open the source again, it shows:

<http: 1232web.pdf="" pdfs="" pubs="" www.agf.org.uk="">
    </http:>

How can I stop it from changing lt and gt into < and >?

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Code being automatically replaced 8 years 2 weeks ago #4111

Neil Pollock Topic Author Offline Premium Member Posts: 92 Thank you received: 4	On a related note, in HTML5 you are able to wrap block-level elements with anchor tags. For example: <a href="#"> <div class="section01"> <h1>Heading</h1> <p>Some text.</p> </div> </a> However, Xerte doesn't appear to like this and will automatically convert such code to: <div class="section01"> <h1><a href="#">Heading</a></h1> <p><a href="#">Some text.</a></p> </div>
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Code being automatically replaced 8 years 2 weeks ago #4114

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Hi Neil

The anchor tag issue seems to be a known issue with ckeditor that Xerte uses. You can use this workaround where you surround the div with the link at runtime:

<div id="anchorDiv" class="section01">
<h1>Heading</h1>
<p>Some text.</p>
</div>
<script>
$('#anchorDiv').wrap('<a href="#"></a>');
</script>

The < > issue also seems to be a problem with ckeditor. You can either make the url a link:

<p>Christel Lane and others, The Future of Professionalised Work: UK and Germany Compared (London: Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society, 2003)&nbsp;&lt;<a href="http://www.agf.org.uk/pubs/pdfs/1232web.pdf" target="_blank">www.agf.org.uk/pubs/pdfs/1232web.pdf</a>&gt;&nbsp;[accessed 12 December 2007] (p. 11)
</p>

or if you'd prefer not to do this then surround the url with a span tag:

<p>Christel Lane and others, The Future of Professionalised Work: UK and Germany Compared (London: Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society, 2003)&nbsp;&lt;<span>www.agf.org.uk/pubs/pdfs/1232web.pdf</span>&gt;&nbsp;[accessed 12 December 2007] (p. 11)&nbsp;
</p>

It seems to not like the < being directly next to the url (simply adding a space also works but I guess this isn't ideal if you're showing how the reference should be written)

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Code being automatically replaced 8 years 2 weeks ago #4116

Neil Pollock Topic Author Offline Premium Member Posts: 92 Thank you received: 4	Thanks for this. The <span> workaround seems to do the job for now (although, it still converts code to brackets if you use the "HTML Code" page type rather than the "Text" page type).
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