Comments on: Quote of the Day Web Part, Reprised – Part 2

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:24:25 +0000

openQuote + blockquote + quote.text + quote.author + /blockquote + closeQuote

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:21:27 +0000

the code did not display correctly so here is an addendum to the above image code. I modified the code snippet below so it would display the css entry names and not render the code inside this forum:

var renderQuote = function

quote.obj.parents(”table:first”).parents(”td:first”).html

+ quote.text + quote.author +

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:17:55 +0000

I am trying to surround the quotation with a graphic image of an over-sized quote mark. Each end of the quotation would have an openQuote and a closeQuote.

#openQuote{background-image:url(’http://xxxxxxxxxx.transitchicago.com/xxxxxxxxx/Quote_24×24_Blue.jpg’);}
#closeQuote{background-image:url(’http://xxxxxxxxxx.transitchicago.com/xxxxxxxxx/Quote_24×24_v2_Blue.jpg’);}

blockquote p { font: italic bold 1.2em/1.2 “Times New Roman” , serif; }
blockquote p.author {
font: normal 0.8em/1.2 sans-serif;
color: #666;
text-align: right;
}

Inside the javascript to render the quote I have added some new fieldnames for the CSS to apply the background-image to, however, the images never are displayed.

var renderQuote = function() {

quote.obj.parents(”table:first”).parents(”td:first”).html(’

‘ + quote.text + ” + quote.author + ‘

‘)
}

You can see that there is an

and

at the beginning and end of the html.

Thanks for the help.
Alex

By: EndUserSharePoint

EndUserSharePoint — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:04:04 +0000

Alex – By my clock, it took you 14 minutes to figure that one out… not Mensa speed, but not bad :-)

Glad it’s working for you. — Mark

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:24:01 +0000

Oh Snap!
The random quote operates on a daily basis displaying the same quote all day long, right?
Ooopsy. If this is right then it appears the code is working correctly.

Alex

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:15:30 +0000

I removed the entries and added new ones for a total of 3. Now the middle entry is the only one displayed. Hmmmm… I copied the content from the code block above and pasted it “as-is” into a CEWP. I created a custom list with 2 fields: quotes and author. The quote appears fine except for the fact that it always displays the same one.

Ugh. :(
Alex

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:07:18 +0000

I continue to receive only 1 of the quotes returned. Oddly enough, it is the 3rd quote out of 4 in my custom list. I originally had the other three named “Unknown” and the quote which is displaying was by an author called “Mother Goose”. Could this be the problem? I did, however, change the author in the other three quotes to have unique author names, but it did not fix the issue.

Any ideas?
Alex

By: debora clark

debora clark — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:31:37 +0000

I love you site and the information provide. I seem to miss a step. I down load the zip file.
Created the qoutes web part, added the random qoute web part., changed the url to point to the min.js on my site. I have moved the random quote web part above and below the quote web part.
What did I miss in the instructions. Can help me. thanks

By: EndUserSharePoint

EndUserSharePoint — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:22:43 +0000

George – Should be good to go, now. — Mark

By: George W

George W — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:42:25 +0000

Hi all:
I don’t know why, but I can’t see the code in the body of the article itself.
Mark is kind enough to have a ZIP file of the code in the comments, but I would never have gotten this from the article itself.

For what it’s worth: there’s only blank space visible between this section:
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Let’s see our code so far:

And the results:
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