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 Subject :External links within articles being stripped out.. 16-12-2010 23:21:43 
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Hi,
I've noticed within the Featured Items Carousel that any external links within the displayed Articles are being stripped out. For example, I have an article that has a sentence with the following link: <a name="aHulu2" href="http://www.hulu.com" target="_blank">hulu</a>

When I see it in a blog, the link works as desired. Within the carousel however, the link is replaces with just the text: "hulu". Is this something that I can turn off or sneak in some kind of html comment directive so that my external link stays in place?
Cheers,
Jeff
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 Subject :Re:External links within articles being stripped out.. 17-12-2010 10:48:36 
boggler
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Hi, yes the module does strip out html tags including links from the extract. This is for the practical reason that if it did not do this the likelihood is that you would end up with invalid html, if the extract contained some opening html tags but no closing tags. This could cause a lot of problems with the display of your site.

There are two ways around this: use the entire introtext, which is an option for the module. In this case the html tags are not stripped out, since the html can be assumed to be valid.

The second is to use a comment tag. If you use a tag of the form

<!--comment:ANY TEXT-->

ANY TEXT can be replaced by text of your choosing, including some html tags such as the <a> tag.

It won't appear visible in the original article since it is inside an html comment tag, but it will be displayed at the bottom of the extract in the module.

So you could do something like:

<!--comment:<a href="http://www.mylink.com">Additional links</a>-->

where obviously you would replace http://www.mylink.com by whatever you want.

I am thinking about modifying the module to automatically display additional links, as a few people have asked about this now, there should be an update sometime in the New Year that will include this, but in the meantime either of the above methods will allow you to include links.
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