Using anchor tags within content

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By Ginslinger - October 21, 2009 - edited: October 21, 2009

Trying to use CMSB as a extension of a monthly newsletter. This will be setup much like Interactive tools Newsletter with links to a tagged area within the page. I need to be able to use anchor tags for a table of contents which links to the area of content on the page.

I could use some advice on the best way to accomplish this.

Re: [Ginslinger] Using anchor tags within content

By gkornbluth - October 21, 2009

Hi Ginslinger,

just a thought, you could use a field in your section editor for the anchor tag, with a "must be unique restriction" and then insert that field in both the "a href" and the "a name" link elements in your viewer.

Hope that gets you started.

Best,

Jerry Kornbluth
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Re: [gkornbluth] Using anchor tags within content

By Chris - October 21, 2009

Hi Ginslinger,

The WYSIWYG editor has an "Insert/edit Anchor" button (it looks like a ship's anchor.) You could generate a Table of Contents using some custom PHP code, or just manually create it each time.

I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any questions.
All the best,
Chris

Re: [chris] Using anchor tags within content

By Ginslinger - October 22, 2009

I have tried to use the anchor tag within the editor but could not get it to function correctly. Creating a table of contents within the page is what I would like to accomplish. Couldn't find any documentation on using the anchor tag. Is there something I could be missing?

Re: [Ginslinger] Using anchor tags within content

By Ginslinger - October 25, 2009

Going to the Tiny Mice site and using there example page you can insert an anchor link as it has an added spot to choose what anchor to use for the link. How do you add these type of fields to the editor. I tried finding the needed information on there site but don't have hours to find the answer to this.

What good is having a function in the editor if it doesn't work? There may be documentation but I sure can't find it.

Re: [Ginslinger] Using anchor tags within content

By Dave - October 26, 2009

Hi Ginslinger,

You can add an anchor tag as follows:
1) Select the place you want to create an anchor.
2) Click the wysiwyg button with a picture of an anchor
3) Enter an anchor name (eg: test)

You can link to the anchor like this:
1) Select some text you want to link
2) Click the chain link button in the wysiwyg
3) Beside "Link Url" enter # followed by the name of your link (eg: #test)

That's how you enter anchor links. There's no way I know of to automatically generate the table of contents content, though. We do ours manually.

Hope that helps!
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com

Re: [Dave] Using anchor tags within content

By Ginslinger - October 26, 2009

Hi Dave and thanks for the reply. I understand that we cannot generate a table of contents automatically. My question is how do we generate the anchors in the editor so that they can just be selected rather than entering them manually. I have included image that shows how it is demonstrated on TinyMice site.

I spent sometime trying to find documentation on how to add these fields to the editor with no luck. I did finally get them to work manually though.

Thanks for the help.
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Re: [Dave] Using anchor tags within content

By Ginslinger - October 26, 2009

Thanks Dave. Very much appreciated.

Re: [Dave] Using anchor tags within content

By buttermilk - September 1, 2011

Hi Dave,
Would this still apply for version 2.07 of cms builder? I'm trying to do the same thing but those instructions haven't changed the image dialogue in tinyMCE for me. I tried it with what I thought was a newer version of the plugin, but still no joy.

Ian