[Zope] Re: <dtml-var variable> from REQUEST not shown in <input> tag if it has spaces??

J Cameron Cooper zope-l at jcameroncooper.com
Fri Aug 12 16:20:37 EDT 2005


Josef Meile wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
>> When i just use it as <dtml-var sSQL> everything is
>> ok.
>> When i use it like : <input type="text"
>> value=<dtml-var sSQL>>, i get everything until the
>> first space. For example from "select * from mytable"
>> i get "select".
> 
> I'm not sure, but don't you need to enclose it with double quotation
> marks? Something like this:
> 
> <input type="text" value="<dtml-var sSQL>">
> 
> You can also try:
> 
> <input type="text" value="&dtml-sSQL;">

I suspect this to be the right answer. The way to diagnose this would be 
to have looked at the page source itself. You would have seen something 
like::

  <input type="text" value=select * from mytable>

 From this it seems obvious why only 'select' was showing up in the 
rendered output.

		--jcc

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