Problem with search highlighting in keyword tag

[bizweb]

I don't know if there is a fix for this...

With search highlight turned on, and a search that brings up a page using a keyword tag... The Over Zealous search tries to highlight words in the keyword tag resulting in a broken tag and some ugly half keywords at the top of the page.

I guess I'll switch off the search highlighting...

[Mike Hughes]

Sounds strange to me.

can you show us a page and keyword where this happens so we can investigate?

Mikie

[NormanRouxel]

I reported a similar bug ages ago (and even included a fix to the Perl).

If you tried to highlight a searhed term that was valid HTML like SELECT or OPTION or any text within <script...></script> tags then ka-boom.

I thought that it was all OK now. Are you running an old version of Actinic?

An URL would be nice plus the keywords that fail.

Norman

[bizweb]

It's running on Version 6 ( not sure of point version)

and here is a URL of the search for 'gill' on a page that has 'gill' in the keywords tag...

go to http://www.boatsnbits.co.uk/acatalog/

and search for 'gill', then choose the 'DINGHY' page and scroll to the top.

-Alec

[NormanRouxel]

You are running 6.1.3 and I see the problem.

The search highlighting is breaking the META Keywords tag. You should have

<META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="buoyancy aid,coast clothing<BR>women,coastal clothing women's,deck coats,dinghy harness,gill<BR>watch,gill clothes,gill clothing,gill marine,gill sailing clothes,sailing<BR>footwear,sailing caps,sailing clothes uk,sailing shorts">

but are getting

<META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="buoyancy aid,coast clothing<BR>women,coastal clothing women's,deck coats,dinghy harness<SPAN CLASS="actsearchhighlightcolor">,gill</SPAN><BR>watch<SPAN CLASS="actsearchhighlightcolor">,gill</SPAN> clothes<SPAN CLASS="actsearchhighlightcolor">,gill</SPAN> clothing<SPAN CLASS="actsearchhighlightcolor">,gill</SPAN> marine<SPAN CLASS="actsearchhighlightcolor">,gill</SPAN> sailing clothes,sailing<BR>footwear,sailing caps,sailing clothes uk,sailing shorts">

There have been 2 updates to Actinic since 6.1.3 so it might be worth checking the change log to see if this problem is already fixed.

Norman

PS for Actinic. Why are <BR> being generated here. They're of no use in a meta tag and will hide the words on either side.

[NormanRouxel]

A rough fix - it won't generate invalid HTML - would be to go to Design / Text / Go to / Phase -1, ID 2211 and change from

<SPAN CLASS="actsearchhighlightcolor">

to

<SPAN CLASS=actsearchhighlightcolor>

You'll still get junk in the search highlighted META but it will be valid HTML junk and won't display. This shouldn't hurt search engines as they will be looking (if any bother with META anymore) at the normal static HTML pages.

Norman