Attribute Prompt Colon

[Mike521w]

Re: Attribute Prompt Colon

I just discovered this exact same problem myself, very annoying. You're right, with the sebenza template the colon is configurable, but with the miva default template it always adds a colon after the attribute prompt, whether I have a colon in the prompt or not.

It looks ridiculous in cases where I use an image link for the prompt instead of plain text.

Leslie, there is a workaround that's also annoying. Finish each of your attribute prompts with

<span class="attributeColon">

Then in your Product Attribute Template you put an unbalanced close span after the prompt:

&mvt:attribute:prompt;</span>

Now when the page is rendered the colon will come up as:

<span class="attributeColon">:</span>

Now you can control that prompt with CSS and/or javascript.

[burch]

Re: Attribute Prompt Colon

The colon is, in fact, hard coded into both the MMUI and CSSUI attribute components. I'm not sure why, but if I had to guess I'd say it's a legacy carryover from the 4.x MMUI code.

I'll file a bug and in PR8 Update 6 we'll provide a token for the prompt without a trailing colon and modify the templates to use it and put the colon output into the template code instead. The original "prompt" token will keep the colons for backwards compatibility.

[burch]

Re: Attribute Prompt Colon

While working through the changes proposed above I figured out why we did it in the component modules in the first place.

The code in the component module adds a colon to the end of the prompt, but only if there isn't one already. This allows the same template code to handle attribute prompts that contain the colon and do not, consistently displaying a single colon after the prompt.

This is great if you like the colons, not so great if you don't.

In PR8 Update 6 there will be a new token, attribute:raw_prompt, which contains the prompt exactly as configured by the user. To maintain consistency between versions, however, we won't change the default templates to use raw_prompt--they will retain the present behavior.

[Mike521w]

Re: Attribute Prompt Colon

sounds good to me, thanks!

[lesliekirk]

Re: Attribute Prompt Colon
In PR8 Update 6 there will be a new token, attribute:raw_prompt, which contains the prompt exactly as configured by the user. To maintain consistency between versions, however, we won't change the default templates to use raw_prompt--they will retain the present behavior.

It's an old post, but good to bring back around. This token does the trick

&mvt:attribute:raw_prompt;

Thanks Burch!