[RESOLVED] Title/Alt Tag truncated??

webbrowser

Expected result: ----------------
<img src="/images/123456.jpg" title="This is the image description" />

Actual result: --------------
<img src="/images/123456.jpg" title="This" />

I can get the full description to appear if I display it as text on the page beside the image however it fails to show anything after the first word in an alt/title tag with the image?

I have tested this in different browsers FF/IE and on two different servers windows & ubuntu. No change.

Atli

Hey.

Being able to see the code generally helps with the debugging process 🙂

However, are you absolutely sure you include the quotes around the HTML attributes in your live code?
Without the quote-tags, only the characters up to the first space will be considered a part of the attribute value. The rest will be considered errors in the markup, and as such, ignored by most browsers.

johanafm

I'd guess the generated markup is missing quotes

<img alt=This was not quoted and makes no sense title="This is quoted and therefor makes sense as a string" />

webbrowser

johanafm;10934116 wrote:
I'd guess the generated markup is missing quotes
<img alt=This was not quoted and makes no sense title="This is quoted and therefor makes sense as a string" />

Thanks for you replies. I think you are on to something. This is the actual code I am using.

echo "<td height=\"80\"><a title=".$result[$count]->Description." href='productimages/".$result[$count]->ProductCode.".jpg' rel=\"lightbox\"><img width=\"75\" src='productimages/".$result[$count]->ProductCode.".jpg' title=" .$result[$count]->Description." border=\"0\"></td>";

This works but only shows with what I have originally posted. I have changed the following from title=".$newresult[$count]->Description." to title=\".$newresult[$count]->Description.\" however this returns nothing at all.

dagon

try:

echo '<td height="80"><a title="'.$result[$count]->Description.'" href="productimages/'.$result[$count]->ProductCode.'.jpg" rel="lightbox">
<img width="75" src="productimages/'.$result[$count]->ProductCode.'.jpg" title="' .$result[$count]->Description.'" border="0">
</td>';

Atli

Try using heredoc. Makes it a lot easier to print out HTML from within PHP.

echo <<<HTML
<td height="80">
    <a title="{$result[$count]->Description}" href="productimages/{$result[$count]->ProductCode}.jpg" rel="lightbox">
        <img width="75" src="productimages/{$result[$count]->ProductCode}.jpg" title="{$result[$count]->Description}" border="0" />
    </a>
</td>";
HTML;

Note; You can not put any white-spaces (tabs, spaces, etc...) before or after the "HTML" delimiters, or you will get parse errors. (Except, you can add spaces between the <<< and the HTML in the first line.)

dagon

i never recommend heredoc to newbies, the issue with white space confuses them, just see how many posts there are about it on this site. Its also an important skill to learn how to use stings properly.

webbrowser

dagon;10934133 wrote:

try:

echo '<td height="80"><a title="'.$result[$count]->Description.'" href="productimages/'.$result[$count]->ProductCode.'.jpg" rel="lightbox">
<img width="75" src="productimages/'.$result[$count]->ProductCode.'.jpg" title="' .$result[$count]->Description.'" border="0">
</td>';

Thanks dagon that done the trick. I tried this first and it worked. Thanks also to Atli for replying.

Weedpacket

And pay attention to the fact that Atli's guess was right and your attribute values weren't quoted.