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~August Retumizenettu

Mar 21, 2012, 4:12 PM

12 Posts

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Stop Xpages closing html tags automatically?

Category: Other
Platform: All
Release: 8.5.2
Role: Developer
Tags: Automatic,html tags,prevention
Replies: 2

Hello,

I'm looking for a way that I can stop XPages from automatically closing html tags that I add. I know this sounds strange, but there's a reason for this and I won't go into that for the moment in the interests of trying to keep the post shorter, simpler and to the point.

What I would like is to do is have a computed text field output the following html markup:

<div id='2'>"

The computed field escape property is set to "false" (this way it renders the "<" and ">" correctly instead of making the "&gt" or "&lt" by wrapping everything in a span).

When this page is rendered to the browser, XPages automatically closes the tags even though I haven't typed them. So in the web browser it will render:-

<div id='2'>"

</div>

Is there anyway I can prevent the XPages from closing the tags automatically or is there anyway I can write my own html and XPages will not do anything other than sending it to the browser (effectively pass-thru)?

I have tried disabling the theme and removing the ID of the computed field as some posts have suggested, but this hasn't prevented XPages from automatically closing those tags.

Thanks in advance as always, I really appreciate anyone's input in on this.

~Dean Kiponetherjip

Mar 21, 2012, 7:02 PM

10 Posts

Re: Stop Xpages closing html tags automatically?

The Computed Field control will not automatically close tags. It will output exactly what you tell it to so I think you are doing something wrong.

The following will produce exactly what you want (with no closing div tags):

<xp:text escape="false" disableTheme="true">

<xp:this.value><![CDATA[#{javascript:
var html = "<div id='1'>\n"
html = html + "<div id='2'>";
return html;}]]></xp:this.value>

</xp:text>

~August Retumizenettu

Mar 26, 2012, 9:40 AM

12 Posts

Re: Stop Xpages closing html tags automatically?

Thanks for the reply. You're quite right and I've found the source of my confusion. It looks like when you use the "inspect element" tool in Google Chrome, it automatically closes off tags if they're not already done so. If I look in source, things are how they should be.

Now if only I can figure out how to stop xpages adding extra divs when I use custom controls or xp:include.