treat a p tag as an nbsp?

[joepagan]

Hey,

I was wondering if there was a way of dealing with adding an nbsp to replace a paragraph, for example an excerpt of text looks like this at the moment:
operators and infrastructure owners.We work on

Could we change this somehow to output like this?:
operators and infrastructure owners. We work on

[joepagan]

Or even treat a p tag as a <br> where the closing </p> would be?

[ryanshrum]

I'm not sure I'm following what you're trying to do. By default Hacksaw shouldn't remove a space. Are you sure there is a space in the Rich Text field?

[joepagan]

Hi Ryan, Sorry I'm probs not being clear.

Currently using this in my template:
{{ subEntry.pageContent|hacksaw(words='36', append=' […]') }}
will output this:
"operators and infrastructure owners.We work on"

Instead, I would like to output it like this:
"operators and infrastructure owners. We work on"

The problem is that there are multiple paragraphs in my variable, after the "." there is a closing </p>, I feel that it should maybe add a nbsp to replace the closing paragraph tag, or at least give us an option for it.

[ryanshrum]

Are you in the Slack channel? I just tested what you've put here and there is a space between the "." and the "We". I also tested an large ipsum lorem block with multiple <p> and Hacksaw returned the expected string.

[joepagan]

I'm not at the moment, I've just left for the day, though I'll take another
look tomorrow. Though I think the issue is more when you have something
like this

text.

more text

.

My text will be straight from a rich text field, so I guess depends on what
ever redactor has done to it.

On 1 July 2015 at 16:08, Ryan Shrum [email protected] wrote:

Are you in the Slack channel? I just tested what you've put here and there
is a space between the "." and the "We". I also tested an large ipsum lorem
block with multiple

and Hacksaw returned the expected string.

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[shantamg]

I am seeing this issue as well. I think it would be good to add a space (doesn't even have to be an nbsp) if there isn't one between p tags. If the closing p and the following opening p have no space between them then it will look like a typo where there's no space between sentences.

[joepagan]

I totally forgot to look at this, I've marked your notification as unread so I can look at it again tomorrow.

[shantamg]

Looking at the plugin, it's using the php function strip_tags().

What do you guys think of this type of solution?

The idea is to use a regex to add a space where an opening tag directly follows a close tag:

$html = preg_replace('/(<\/[^>]+?>)(<[^>\/][^>]*?>)/', '$1 $2', $html);
$html = strip_tags($html);

[joepagan]

Just revisited this, sorry for the 6month delay lol. So I can confirm that it still appears to behave in this way. This code:

{{ '<p>hello how are you doing.</p><p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Molestias ad soluta impedit odit nisi quam possimus quo laborum provident dicta.</p>'|hacksaw(words='15', append=' [&hellip;]') }}

Outputs this:

hello how are you doing.Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Molestias ad soluta […]

If there is a closing paragraph (or even any other element), I believe that a space should occur.