I added one field which is of type text as single line. Now I need to make some
of the text as underline.for example:-
He is a good employee.
I want underline in employee text. How can I add that in contentful?
👋🏻
When you're using the Markdown editor the problem the problem is not with Contentful but rather the markdown specs themselves. They do not provide the "underline" functionality.
The question about underline is a common question. The idea of markdown is to only care about content and not really the representation (e.g. "bold" translates to the html strong element which stands syntactically for important parts) though.
IMO underlined text can also be confused with links too easily.
If you have to make this work you can either bring in inline HTML (has the downside that you'll loose cross-platform compatibility because not every system can deal with HTML) or you handle the underline functionality in your application consuming Contentful with some CSS for example.
E.g. assuming that you want to highlight something in your application/website I could see that the "bold"/"strong" meaning could work for you.
Overall rule of thumb with markdown is thinking of the document structure and content rather then it's appearance. "These are important words in this paragraph" (👍) vs. "These are words that should be underlined" (👎).
In Contentful write the text under Markdown as:-
He is a good <u>employee</u>
Now in our reactjs application we can write:-
dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{
__html: employee.childMarkdownRemark.html,
}}
Hence if we render the output in the childMardownRemark.html under dangerouslySetInnerHTML then employee will come as underline in our UI.
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I am using react.js
I'm trying to build a blog page.
there is a texterea tag to write a blog for the user.
now I want to add the function that allows users to add words that are linked.
so that when i show the text from that input words that are linked are clickable
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like the blue words in wiki in the image above.
pardon my mistakes (1st question in StackOverflow)
I know about dangerouslysetinnerhtml. but not sure if it's the right way to do so. because then users can modify the code inside (i think). so what is the safe and right way to do so
Reading your case Markdown seems best option as it also supports links insertion. For rendering user entered markdown you may use library like React Markdown. For writing markdown textarea is fine as long as you write markdown syntax properly but you may want to consider libraries like React textarea markdown editor to make things easier.
I am building an Angular test preparation app (with Laravel 5.1 API). One of the requirements is to allow the user to print a certificate of achievement.
The client wants the person's name and credentials interpolated into the document (e.g., highlighted below). Here is a snapshot of the PDF template they sent:
The way I'm handling PDF viewing is simply by storing the file on S3 and giving them a link to that file.
Interpolating information into a PDF doc doesn't seem trivial and I haven't found much information on programmatically allowing this, but there are tools like DocHub, that allow you do edit while viewing the PDF.
I'm interested in learning:
is doing this programmatically trivial?
are there 3rd party tools I'm unaware of?
would I even be able to send this information along to the S3 link to interpolate in the first place?
Using PDF as a format for editing is usually a bad choice. If you have a form with fixed fields, then it's easy. Create a PDF template with an interactive form. In this form, based on AcroForm technology, you'll define fields with fixed coordinates, and a fixed size. You can then add content to these fields.
One major disadvantage with this approach is the lack of flexibility. Did you notice that I used the word "fixed" three times in the previous paragraph? If text doesn't fit the predefined field, you're out of luck. If the field is overdimensioned, you'll end up with plenty of white space. This approach is great if you can predict what the data will be like. A typical use case is a ticket or a voucher. For instance: the empty form is a really nice page, with only a couple of fields where an automated system can put a name, a date, a time, and a seat number.
This isn't the best approach for the example you show in your screen shot. The position of every line of text, every word, every character is known in advance. If you want to replace a short word with a long word (or vice-versa), then all those positions (of each line, of the complete page, possibly of the complete document) need to be recalculated. That's madness. Only people with very poor design skills come up with such an idea.
A better idea, is to store the template as HTML. See for instance chapter 5 of iText's pdfHTML tutorial, where we have this snippet of HTML:
<html>
<head>
<title>Invitation to SXSW 2018</title>
</head>
<body>
<u><b>Re: Invitation</b></u>
<br>
<p>Dear <name>SXSW visitor</name>,
we hope you had a great SXSW film festival experience last year.
And we would like to invite you to the next edition of SXSW Film
that takes place from March 9 until March 17, 2018.</p>
<p>Sincerely,<br>
The SXSW crew<br>
<date>August 4, 2017</date></p>
</body>
</html>
Actually, it's not really HTML, because the <name> tag and the <date> tag don't exist in HTML. All HTML processors (browsers as well as pdfHTML) ignore those tags and treat their content as if the tag was a <span>:
It doesn't make much sense to have such tags in the context of pure HTML, but it does make a lot of sense in the case of pdfHTML. With pdfHTMLL, you can configure custom tags, and have a result that looks like the PDFs shown below:
Look at the document for "John Doe" and compare it with the document for "Bruno Lowagie". The name "John Doe" is much shorter than my name, hence more words fit on that first line. The text flows nicely (we could also have chosen to justify the text on both sides). This "flow" is impossible to achieve with your approach, because you will never get a PDF template to reflow nicely.
OK, I get it, you probably say, but what about the practical aspects? You talk about a Java / .Net library, but I am working with Laravel and Angular.js. First, let me tell you that I don't think you'll find any good PDF tools for Laravel or Angular.js, because of the nature of PDF and those development environments (in my opinion, those technologies don't play well together). Regardless of my opinion, this shouldn't be much of a problem for you because you work in an Amazon environment. AWS supports Java, and the Java code needed to get pdfHTML working is minimal. Most of the code samples I wrote for the pdfHTML tutorial are shorter than 15 lines. So why not try Java and pdfHTML?
If you're already using Amazon services, why not use an amazon lambda function, in combination with iText7 (java), to generate the pdf on demand?
That way, you are guaranteed that the pdf is correct, and has nice layout every time.
Generating the pdf can either be done by:
converting HTML,
programmatically creating your entire document,
filling and flattening an XFA form.
I think for your use-case, either option 1 or 2 are the most sustainable.
I'm building a CakePHP application that involves forms, and I'm looking for a way to remove the asterisk from required fields. I have several input fields that are required, but I do not want the asterisk to show.
I've tried using 'required'=>false, but that makes the field optional as well as removing the asterisk. I just want to remove the asterisk; the field needs to remain required.
You could modify the css that adds that. I've made changes in my css, so I'm not sure if it's the one that comes out of the box anymore (for that matter, I don't know if you are using the one that comes out of the box), but the css that adds those asterisk(s?) on my form is
label.required:after {
color: #EE3322;
content: "*";
display: inline;
}
And you should just replace that content:"*" with
content: "";
Now, if your css isn't the same as mine, inspect the label element, and look for a similar line (it's probably using a content: "*", so you know what you have to look for).
If you want to delete the asterisks for a single view, add an inline style in the view. If it is for the whole application, delete the line in the css file.
I was watching some videos on Egghead.io about AngularJS. The creator of the videos uses Webstorm (and, I believe, works for them). One feature I noticed is that he can set different syntax highlighting within different scopes or quotation marks. So, in code like the following (from an AngularJS directive)
return {
template: '<div>something</div>',
// ^^^ these guys ^^^
}
...he can get the inside of the quotation marks to highlight as HTML.
I use Sublime Text 2, and am fairly wedded to it. Is there an existing feature/plugin for Sublime that could handle a case like this? If not, is something like this technically possible using the Sublime Text 2 API?
I don't think it's built in, but it's certainly possible. I've been doing some work with graphviz and wanted to do something similar. Labels can be generated with html like syntax. Anyways, I played around with the .tmLanguage file and added a new pattern to match the context where html like entries were valid (I look for label = <). The patterns I used for the captures aren't that good, but it works for fine for me. This give me the following, which I think is similar to what you are looking for.
I don't know anything about AngularJS, so I can't help you with anything specific to that, but it is certainly possible. Note that in the image below, the last <table></table> are just to show that highlighting doesn't occur there.
Edit:
Forgot to include this in the original post, but here is my updated tmLangauage file. That first pattern is what I added(link). I used PlistJsonConverter to go from JSON to plist, then saved the file as .tmLanguage. Hope this helps.
#skuroda is right, I implemented #skuroda's code with an additional plugin to easily edit HTML within an AngularJS directive JS file. The result is HTML syntax highlighting within a directive JS file and additional functionality to remove string related delimiters while editing templates.... Sublime AngularJS HTML Template Plugin
I need to insert images into the copytext of a blogpost. I tried different wysiwyg-editors and different image-plugins, but so far every plugin or editor I tried directly adds an <img>-tag into the text.
My problem is, that I want to change the markup of the images when the frontend is rendered. Is there any plugin that does not add an <img>-tag, but some short code or so that gets translated into an -tag when the field is rendered, similar to wordpress?
That way I could hook into the process and change the markup of the images...
Lately I've been working on a combination of these modules to work with customized markup:
CustomFilter
BUEditor
Markdown filter
Markdown Editor for BUEditor
BUEditor and Markdown filter will give you markup-based input that you can than manipulate via RegEx with CustomFilter.
CustomFilter is kind of confusing and a bit of a pain to use, so be ready to bang your fist into your head a few times, but it's totally worth it. It' much easier than the alternative, which would be defining your own custom filter module.