!!<>!! needed any more?

[Bob Isaac]

I have not seen any reference to the need to put !!< and >!! at the beginning and end of custom html in V8. Is it needed any more?

Bob

[leehack]

Those embed html in the product detail and still remain.

[completerookie]

you've only got to go into the general text block of a product, highlight a word or two and then click on the"formatting tools (bold etc)" to see that the code is definately used.

[Bob Isaac]

Thank you

Bob

[leehack]

I guess somethings are easier to ask about than try

[jont]

you've only got to go into the general text block of a product, highlight a word or two and then click on the"formatting tools

Be warned that if you then remove the formatting using the same procedure whilst the formatting is removed redundant code can be left in the HTML adding to page weight and possible validation issues (over and above the usual Actinic specific code validations)

[NormanRouxel]

If you want custom HTML in the Product Description you still need the !!< and >!! tags around it.

Note that there's also a buggette in V8 whereby anything alphabetic within square brackets in the Product Description field e.g. [RRP] is interpreted by actinic as [/b]<actinic:variable name="RRP" />[/b]

This is primarily used whereby [LINK] in the Product Details is replaced by the contents of the Information Link Filed variable.

Try putting [ProductReference] into a Product Description and see what happens!

It's not just valid Variable names - Actinic seems to interpret anything within square brackets as a potential Variable.

So a bit of JavaScript like

!!<
<script type="test/javascript">
var x = 1;
var a = new Array();
a[x] = 123;
</script>
>!!

Has the line a[x] = 123; interpreted as

a<actinic:variable name="x"> = 123;

which aint valid JavaScript".

The fudge that seems to get around this is

a[ x ] = 123;

where those spaces around the [ ] seem to be enough to prevent Actinic doing it's unwanted replacement.

I'll post this as a separate bug report as it's way too weird in my opinion.