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[rogerspg108 Friend rogerspg108Join date: May 2011Posts: 10Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#179400

I would like to include active links in the navigation windows in the JA slideshow2 display. By “nav windows” I mean the small thumbnail-plus-text windows that you can set to the left, right, or bottom of the main slideshow. I want to do this because I really don’t like the pop-up mask (the “mark”) that appears to be the only place where I can link to the relevant pages. I would prefer to have something like a “Learn more…” link in each nav window. However, any link that I place in any article that appears in a nav window automatically gets stripped out. Is there a way to do this, a way to have active links in the nav windows?

Thanks for any help…

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#462388

Hi rogerspg108,

I don’t know your mean. Could you please be more specific so that I can offer the proper help?

Thanks

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#462436

If you look at the Rasite demo here, http://templates.joomlart.com/ja_rasite/home.html: there are nav tabs on the right side of the main slideshow window. I want to insert links into the text in the nav tabs, so that for instance the “Lorem ipsum…” text in the first tab (the “Fringilla” tab) could have a “Learn more…” link at the end of it.

The text in the nav tab is pulled from the related article text, but when I put a link in the related article text, that link gets stripped out when the article text is displayed in the nav tab.

What I’m trying to accomplish is being able to link to the related article in a way other than via the mask popup, which right now is the only place where the related article is linked to. Also, I’d like to be able, if I so choose, to make up a set of slideshow pages that contain only the text that I want to display in the nav panes, rather than chopped off text from the related article. If I do that, I can include a “learn more…” link in the special slideshow page that links to the original full article. And I can do that without using the popup mask.

Does that make sense?

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#462448

Small progress: in the “JA Slideshow 3 Nav” section of “default_articles.php” for mod_jaslideshow2, I added “<a>” as an allowable for the “strip_tags” call for “introtext”. That allows links to show up in the nav tabs, but nothing happens when I click on them — the url shows up in the source code so I know the a href values are making it to the active page — I just have to get them to be clickable. Not exactly a php savant here….

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#462614

Hi,

If you go to the Rasite demo here, http://templates.joomlart.com/ja_rasite/home.html: in the nav tabs on the right of the slideshow, in the first tab (titled “Fringilla…”), imagine that the first “Lorem ipsum” text is a hyperlink and that the viewer can click on it to navigate to whatever page is linked to. That’s what I want to do: have links in the nav tabs. I can get the links to show up as links, but I don’t know how to make them clickable, ie, they show up with the proper link formatting (after I modified the “strip_tabs” parameters in the source code), but the links themselves don’t work– nothing happens when they’re clicked, even though the link’s html code shows up in the page source (ie, the “a href” is there, so the link is being parsed and being passed to the page code)

Thanks….

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#462645

Hi rogerspg108,

As far as I understand, in the nav tabs on the right of the slideshow, the description, it has a link (alter you modified the “strip_tabs” parameters in the source code) but it can’t be clicked – hovered and activated? (View images attached)

If yes, i believe I can’t help because clicking event will not understand two actions : move tabs and running link.

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#462747

Yes, that’s right. In my case I only have three nav tags so they don’t move, but the on-click color change is still in effect, as is the image swap in the main window. I was kind of hoping that I could do the on-click color change, which brings focus to a particular nav tab, then once it has focus I could then get the link to work (since the nav tab has focus and there’s no further action since the color has changed and the main window image has swapped. In other words, a viewer clicks on the nav tab, the tab gets focus, and nothing further happens with respect to the nav tab– so I thought I might be able to get the link to hover and activate.)

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#462841

Hi rogerspg108,

If so, we can’t help you. As said above, in this case, the distinction event: move tabs and running link are complex. It need some customizations on module.

Thanks

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#462869

In that case is it possible to add the link to the images?

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#462882

I thought of that, but didn’t try it because I need to have clearly defined links (of the “click here” variety). The images in the nav tabs are at 80 pixels and even then I would worry that a lot of viewers wouldn’t think to click the thumbnail (or the main image if I could do that). The slideshow is the first thing viewers see when they get to the site, so I can’t have them going into Easter-egg-hunt mode to find their way around.

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#462981

Nope, not the slide thumb images. The big image from the article.

Not to get confused i am talking about the rasite profile with rasite skin.

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#462989

But either way it would still create an easter egg hunt for the viewer unless there were specific instructions in the image to click on it, and that would be confusing in the main article.

I don’t want to use the black popup mask with the readmore, but I did figure out a workaround that uses the mask but with hacked code for the readmore that I’ll use as a plan B if I can’t get the links to work in the nav tabs. That workaround expands the readmore to a full sentence with the article title injected into the sentence, and no article text injected into the popup; I’ll probably eliminate the default article title (on the left) in the popup as well, and move the expanded readmore to the left in place of the default title– so that all that’s showing in the popup is the expanded readmore on the left side, of course with the text styling redone from the default readmore link style.

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