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Ugo

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Registered: 2008-04-15

Posts: 5

force html emphasis tags to i and b

Hello,

I really need to have i and b html tags instead of em and strong.
I read in the forums that this behaviour used to be browser-dependent in the past, but now it seems both firefox and IE are using em and strong.

Is there a way to set xinha so that it outputs good old i and b tags? Maybe I should hack the code and brutally add a replacement instruction somewhere, but I am too noob to do it myself! :-D

Thanks in advance for your help!

Last edited by Ugo (2008-04-16 10:03:39)

gogo

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2005-02-11

Posts: 1,015

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Re: force html emphasis tags to i and b

I would just replace it server side with a regexp, if you're using php

   $HTMLFromXinha = preg_replace('/<(\/?)strong>/', '<$1b>', $HTMLFromXinha);
   $HTMLFromXinha = preg_replace('/<(\/?)em>/', '<$1i>', $HTMLFromXinha);

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James Sleeman

Geoffrey

Xinha Community Member

Registered: 2005-03-21

Posts: 10

Re: force html emphasis tags to i and b

I think you could also use the xinha._config.specialReplacements option in the config file, e.g.

xinha_config.specialReplacements = {
            '<i(\s[^>]*)?>' : '<em$1>',
            '<\/i>' : '<\/em>'
       };

(and then the same for <b ...> <strong ...>). This would turn all <i ...> to <em ...> on the way into xinha and would convert them all back again to <i ...> on the way out. You'd need to check the backslashes, because I think the specialReplacements function might do its own escaping of regex strings...
-- Geoffrey

ray

Xinha Administrator

From: Germany

Registered: 2005-03-23

Posts: 521

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Re: force html emphasis tags to i and b

This will not work this way as you can't simply put  RegExps in an object like this. Please have a look at this ticket which contains a means to do this http://xinha.webfactional.com/ticket/1201