Adding An Html / Javascript / Text Gadget?
Saturday, February 22, 2020
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An interesting combat of confusion is seen, occasionally, inwards Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken.
When you lot add together an HTML / JavaScript, or a Text, gadget to a blog, you lot tin larn strange results.
"Add a Gadget" provides the "HTML / JavaScript" as well as "Text" gadgets - your choice.
The captions as well as labels inwards the "Configure HTML/JavaScript" or "Configure Text" sorcerer tin survive a combat confusing. From the "Add a Gadget" wizard, you lot tin direct either an "HTML/JavaScript" gadget ("Configure HTML/JavaScript") or a "Text" gadget ("Configure Text").
The "HTML / JavaScript" as well as "Text" gadgets are identical - excepting the title.
Both the "Configure HTML/JavaScript" as well as "Configure Text" wizards purpose the same code - the alone departure betwixt the 2 is the header.
Everything else is the same. Either sorcerer tin practise an "HTML / JavaScript" gadget (in HTML mode) - or a "Text" gadget (in Text mode) - equally you lot wish.
The championship of the sorcerer does non change, when switching modes.
The header of the sorcerer - "Configure HTML/JavaScript" or "Configure Text" - volition stay equally it was when the sorcerer was opened, ignoring whatever agency changes. The caption, at the upper correct edge of the Content window, is what matters.
Being inwards the incorrect agency volition create inconsistent as well as strange results.
If you're inwards the incorrect mode, you'll survive able to come inwards a express total of content - but amongst strange results.
If you lot exactly added a novel gadget - as well as ended upward amongst visible code, when you lot tried to setup an HTML gadget - directly you lot know why. Similarly, if the "Save" push is directly broken, as well as you lot are trying to add or update a Text gadget.
This is ane of several possible causes of problems seen when adding / updating the HTML / JavaScript / Text gadgets.
I added a gadget using code from a tertiary political party website - but the novel gadget shows the code, instead of the gadget content, when I persuasion my blog!This is someone who was confused yesteryear the options offered yesteryear the gadget setup wizard.
When you lot add together an HTML / JavaScript, or a Text, gadget to a blog, you lot tin larn strange results.
"Add a Gadget" provides the "HTML / JavaScript" as well as "Text" gadgets - your choice.
The captions as well as labels inwards the "Configure HTML/JavaScript" or "Configure Text" sorcerer tin survive a combat confusing. From the "Add a Gadget" wizard, you lot tin direct either an "HTML/JavaScript" gadget ("Configure HTML/JavaScript") or a "Text" gadget ("Configure Text").
The "HTML / JavaScript" as well as "Text" gadgets are identical - excepting the title.
Both the "Configure HTML/JavaScript" as well as "Configure Text" wizards purpose the same code - the alone departure betwixt the 2 is the header.
- Configure HTML/JavaScript
- Configure Text
Everything else is the same. Either sorcerer tin practise an "HTML / JavaScript" gadget (in HTML mode) - or a "Text" gadget (in Text mode) - equally you lot wish.
- When the sorcerer is inwards HTML mode, the caption at the upper correct edge of the Content window volition read "Rich Text". Positioning the cursor over "Rich Text" (and noting that the cursor does non alter to a pointer), as well as clicking on "Rich Text", brings upward the Text agency of the wizard.
- When the sorcerer is inwards Text mode, the caption volition read "Edit Html" - as well as clicking on "Edit Html" puts the sorcerer into HTML mode, again.
The championship of the sorcerer does non change, when switching modes.
The header of the sorcerer - "Configure HTML/JavaScript" or "Configure Text" - volition stay equally it was when the sorcerer was opened, ignoring whatever agency changes. The caption, at the upper correct edge of the Content window, is what matters.
- If you lot desire to add together code (HTML / JavaScript), you lot volition desire the caption to read "Rich Text".
- If you lot desire to add together text (Rich Text), you lot volition desire the caption to read "Edit Html".
Being inwards the incorrect agency volition create inconsistent as well as strange results.
If you're inwards the incorrect mode, you'll survive able to come inwards a express total of content - but amongst strange results.
- If you're inwards HTML agency (with "Rich Text" showing), you'll survive able to come inwards text - to a express degree. HTML is only fancy text, amongst tags (special keywords as well as symbols).
- The HTML editor toolbar volition lack a few buttons - as well as using particular characters similar ampersand ("&"), greater than (">") - as well as less than ("<"), volition create random as well as unpredictable results.
- If you're inwards Text agency (with "Edit html" showing), you'll survive able to come inwards the HTML code - but when the spider web log is displayed, you'll come across code (which is exactly text) inwards house of a working gadget.
If you lot exactly added a novel gadget - as well as ended upward amongst visible code, when you lot tried to setup an HTML gadget - directly you lot know why. Similarly, if the "Save" push is directly broken, as well as you lot are trying to add or update a Text gadget.
This is ane of several possible causes of problems seen when adding / updating the HTML / JavaScript / Text gadgets.