Link description

Contents

• Syntax
• Attributes
  • Common presentational attributes
• Examples
  • Example 1: Display a link and its description field contents
• Genealogy
  • Version 4.0.7

Syntax

<txp:link_description />

The link_description tag is a single tag which is used to return the text from the ‘Description’ field as defined within the Links panel. This tag is used in a ‘links’ type form or inside a linklist container tag to display information about the current link.

Attributes

Tag will accept the following attributes (case-sensitive) as well as the global attributes :

escape="html"

Escape HTML entities such as <, > and &.

Values: See the tag escaping documentation for all possible values.

Default: html.

Common presentational attributes

These attributes, which affect presentation, are shared by many tags. Note that default values can vary among tags.

class="class name"

HTML class to apply to the wraptag attribute value.

Default: tag name or unset (see class cross-reference).

label="text"

Label prepended to item.

Default: unset (but see label cross-reference for exceptions).

labeltag="element"

HTML element to wrap (markup) label, specified without brackets (e.g. labeltag="h3").

Default: unset.

wraptag="element"

HTML element to wrap around description, specified without brackets (e.g. wraptag="div").

Default: unset (but see wraptag cross-reference for exceptions).

Examples

Example 1: Display a link and its description field contents

<p>
    <txp:link />
    <br />
    <txp:link_description />
</p>

Other tags used: link.

Genealogy

Version 4.0.7

Default value for escape attribute changed from ‘unset’ to html.