Say Hello to Symphony Tutorial - Step 6 - Trouble with output
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could you paste your entire template?
Sure - it should be exactly what was published in the tutorial...but here it is from the actual editor:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<h2>Leave Your Greeting Here</h2> <xsl:apply-templates select="events/submit-greeting"/> <label>Greeting Title</label> <input name="fields[greeting-title]" type="text" /> <label>Language</label> <select name="fields[language]"> <option value="Chinese">Chinese</option> <option value="Spanish">Spanish</option> <option value="English">English</option> <option value="Arabic">Arabic</option> <option value="Hindi">Hindi</option> <option value="Bengali">Bengali</option> <option value="Portuguese">Portuguese</option> <option value="Russian">Russian</option> <option value="Japanese">Japanese</option> <option value="German">German</option> <option value="Javanese">Javanese</option> <option value="Punjabi">Punjabi</option> <option value="Wu">Wu</option> <option value="Telugu">Telugu</option> <option value="Vietnamese">Vietnamese</option> <option value="Marathi">Marathi</option> <option value="French">French</option> <option value="Korean">Korean</option> <option value="Tamil">Tamil</option> <option value="Italian">Italian</option> </select> <label>Greeting Content</label> <textarea name="fields[greeting-content]" rows="15" cols="50"></textarea> <input name="fields[date]" type="hidden" value="{$today} {$current-time}" /> <input name="action[submit-greeting]" type="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" /> </form>
Must be a limit to the post above...here is the rest:
</xsl:template> <xsl:template match="events/submit-greeting"> <p> <xsl:attribute name="class"><xsl:value-of select="@result"/></xsl:attribute> <xsl:value-of select="message"/> </p> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
Temporarily solved: By puttting default text before the end tag. everything functions normally:
<textarea name="fields[greeting-content]" rows="15" cols="50">Type Content Here</textarea>
No telling why this works this particular way. I'm on a Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) with MAMP 2.0 as the webserver, if that makes any difference (it shouldn't)
If your output mode is XML, an empty textarea element will be output as
<textarea />
While this is perfect XML, in HTML the textarea element should not be self-closing. If it is, this triggers the error handling of some renderers (browsers). They try to "repair" this because they think it's a mistake. So the rendering engine leaves the element open which results in the strange effect you described.
I experienced this in Safari, but it might be a problem to other browsers, too (probably Chrome, which works with the Webkit engine as well). Google tells me that it's also a problem to Internet Exploder.
So your "temporary solution" nailed it: For textareas, you must put some content between the opening and the closing tag.
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Hi Folks,
I was following the "Say Hello to Symphony Tutorial" and everything really was fine up to step 6. I followed the directions perfectly (I thought), but the form output is very strange. The form lays out ok, but this text appears in the Greeting Content textarea box: