output Textarea-Field without a-Tags

[ngrmm]

i use a textarea-field with CKEditor. its filled with text which has a link.

this field is in two of my templates. the first template is an article and everything is finde. the second is an index-template and textarea is placed inside a link. this causes problems.

index-template looks like this

<a href="">
…
<?php echo $page->textarea;  ?>
…
</a>

which results in:

<a href="">
  <p>Lorem Ipsum <a href"">Test</a></p>
</a>

is there a way to output this textarea wihtout the <a> links? i don't need the link on my index-template

[LostKobrakai]

If you won't need any markup you can use strip_tags(). Otherwise it will be a bit more complicated.

[ngrmm]

great!

this worked for me. i needed <br>

 

$text = strip_tags($article->body, '<br>');

 

[Robin S]

Another solution...

Instead of wrapping the link around the textarea on the index template, place the link as a sibling to the textarea and then use CSS absolute positioning to place it over the textarea.

index-template

<div class="my-text">
  <a class="my-link" href=""></a>
  <?php echo $page->textarea; ?>
</div>

CSS

.my-text { position:relative; }
.my-link { position:absolute; width:100%; height:100%; top:0; left:0; z-index:2; }