Hello,

Can't tell whether this is a bug, or whether I'm missing a crucial element or escape character.

I want to dynamically generate the contents of a 'src' or 'href' variable inside an html tag, for example:
The Expression in curly brackets seems to deal fine with being within the double quotes, but breaks when I add the < and > - the expression output (the 'year' variable in this example) gets changed into something like Note this has also changed my input date from the original year to the unix epoch origin.

I'm running LS Version 2.06+ Build 150731
I have a live version of a survey that demonstrates the problem here, and the exported survey is also attached.
www.woodhousecommunitycentre.com/surveys...php/399574?newtest=Y

Any insight would be very much appreciated - is this a bug, or am I just missing something?

First of all, you need to make sure that your survey can use HTML (switch off the XSS filter) because it seems like Limesurvey is substituting the HTML codes.

But there is more going on. The EM codes work fine when outside of HTML, but when placed within the link, they get substituted by spans.

holch wrote: But there is more going on. The EM codes work fine when outside of HTML, but when placed within the link, they get substituted by spans.

Only if oneoffdate is on same page , no ?

You're right! It works if it's on the next page.
Works regardless of XSS setting.

Unfortunately it's not much use to me if people have to click back and forth between pages.

Most other use of expressions can work fully on the same page, as these date elements do outside of the tag.
I can't tell what makes the difference!

If it's on same page : we need a way to update when user update oneoffdate.

Then we must add something .....

You can not do different

For your purpose :

I'm very unfamiliar with javascript, but it looks like that's the only way.

That code does make sense, though, thanks for the help.

I'm happy to implement a workaround to make this work, but it still feels like a bug to me, do you think it needs to be reported as one?

Hi,

You can report if you want (sometimes my english seem unclear ). But it's not a bug.
- User can update his answer in same page
- Then we must update it in the page.

If we set {date('m',strtotime(oneoffdate))} to 2015 without a span : there are no difference with another 2015 in same page. Then we can not easily update it [* see example].

It's more a big dev/feature request, maybe 3.1/3.2 have a system to load the question content in ajax : but then i think it take a lot mlore time when the user click on another answer.

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You use set to No human can see the difference betwwen the 2 2015 => computer can not too.

Denis