Register or log in - lost password?

Username Password

Forums
Feed Informer Support

1. courtenayt
   Member

   Hi,

   I'm creating my own RSS feed to display on my website using feeddigest. I'm wondering if there is any way I can include html in my RSS item description. I've tried the following (using ascii characters and escaping the &), but I'm not getting it to display the tag info on my website. It would be great to be able to have the description display links and images, but links would be the best.

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
   <rss version="2.0">
   <channel>
   <title>OBUUC Latest News</title>
   <link>http://www.obuuc.org</link>
   <description> Latest News from Olympia Brown Unitarian Universalist Church in Racine, WI </description>

   <item>
   <title> First Test Item </title>
   <description> This is a test to see if I can get this thing to work - lets hope for the best! Lets see if we can put a link in here &lt;a href="http://www.obuuc.org"&gt;click&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt; what about an image: &lt;img src = "http://www.obuuc.org/Tony2.jpg"&gt;</description>
   </item>

   </channel>
   </rss>

   The output on my website is as follows:

   Sep 29 First Test Item
   This is a test to see if I can get this thing to work - lets hope for the best! Lets see if we can put a link in here click what about an image:

   The word "click" is not a link and there is nothing displayed after "image:".

   Thanks,
   Courtenay

   Posted 18 years ago #

2. courtenayt
   Member

   Sorry, didn't see I needed to put my code between backticks.

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
   <rss version="2.0">
    	<channel>
   		<title>OBUUC Latest News</title>
   		<link>http://www.obuuc.org</link>
   		<description> Latest News from Olympia Brown Unitarian Universalist Church in Racine, WI </description>
   
   		<item>
   				<title> First Test Item </title>
   				<description> This is a test to see if I can get this thing to work - lets hope for the best!  Lets see if we can put a link in here &amp;lt;a href="http://www.obuuc.org"&amp;gt;click&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt; what about an image: &amp;lt;img src = "http://www.obuuc.org/Tony2.jpg"&amp;gt;</description>
   		</item>
   
   	</channel>
   </rss>

   Posted 18 years ago #

3. admin
   Key Master

   Sure, edit your digest, click on the link to manually edit your template and change the reference to DESCRIPTIONPLAIN to DESCRIPTION. That'll then allow HTML through :)

   Posted 18 years ago #

4. courtenayt
   Member

   Guess there is no good way to include my actual code in this feed - argh!

   Posted 18 years ago #

5. courtenayt
   Member

   Awesome - it worked - thanks for the really fast reply. I love your site!

   Posted 18 years ago #

RSS feed for this topic

Topic Closed

This topic has been closed to new replies.