help with a custom tag please ...

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Hi All,

Im using vBIndex for front page news and Id like to be able to have an image aligned left and with an URL embedded into it.
I have it all working except for the embedded URL ..

Here what i have so far:

Tag: ALIGN

Replacement:

<img border="0" hspace="2" vspace="-2" src="{option}" align="{param}">

Example:

[align=http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/images/misc/vb_bullet.gif]right[/align]

How do i also include the option to have an URL embedded into this image ?

Cheers

Paul

[Jake Bunce]

You are already using the param and option, so there is nothing left to use.

What you can do is create two different tags, one for left and one for right. Then the param will be free to use as a link. For example:

<a href="{param}"><img border="0" hspace="2" vspace="-2" src="{option}" align="right" /></a>

Then the usage would be something like:

[align=http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/images/misc/vb_bullet.gif]http://www.vbulletin.com/[/align]

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thanks mate...thats perfect...I always need a hard coded left, so that is exactly what i needed

Cheers

Paul

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another quick question ...

Now that thats working ...how would i enable the URL that is clicked on that image to open a "_blank" window ?

Cheers again!!

Paul

[Jake Bunce]

Add the red code to the code I posted before:

<a href="{param}" target="_blank"><img border="0" hspace="2" vspace="-2" src="{option}" align="right" /></a>

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good man!! top stuff..thanks again mate!!

BTW ..I have another niggling thing

I realise that this is not vB.org, but im hoping you can think of a way around this issue ...

Im sure you are familiar with vBIndex ... in the front page news...there is no way to specify how much of a post is shown ... (well there is a stright out character restriction...but thats kind off no good as every post changes) ... can you think of a way of using some form of vB custom tag to use as a flag to show only that specified part of the post ? and then have a link that might say 'more' to the rest of the post/thread ...

Any thoughts ?

Cheers mate

Paul

[Jake Bunce]

I have heard of and seen vBIndex but I have never used it or looked at its code.

The only way I can think to do that requires custom code in the script itself. This is something you should ask on www.vbulletin.org

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okey dokeyc...ill ask over there

Thanks again mate

Paul

[Najem Sahel]

Thanke You

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Thanke You

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