Link tags in template file auto closing.

Question

I’m having an issue wrapping a link around some output in a template file. I have the right template file; and I can put text like ‘start here’ and ‘end here’ and it prints out where I want the ‘a href’ tag to start and end.

However when I put in the starting ‘a href’ it auto closes. I can put in a ‘div’ and that doesn’t auto close. I’ve tried <div href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="window.location.assign("'.$link.'")” > and although that html output looks right it doesn’t work either.

I’ve also used at ‘function l’ but can’t pass the $content in.

Any ideas how I can either stop the auto close, get the javascript to work or a function I can use to output the link but will except the content being passed in.

Here's my code

print '<a href="'.$link.'" >'; 
     print $field->content;
     print '</a>'; 

Answer 1

The problem here was that there where links in the content being outputted. Once I changed that the links stopped auto closing.

Answer 2

Use filter_xss on $field->content. You can filter out the anchor tags this way.