Help on using the <text> tag

Description

The text tag is used to place plain text into modules. It is intended for use as a fallback for media that cannot be displayed in PDF, such as flash or video.

Example

This CNXML:


<media id="building-on-past"
       alt="Building on the past.">
  <video mime-type="video/mpeg" 
         src="Building_on_the_Past.mpg"
         autoplay="false"
         width="320" height="260" 
         for="online"/>
  <text for="default">
         If you have access to the internet, please review the 
         "Building on the Past" video located 
         <link url="Building_on_the_Past.mpg">on the website</link>.
         For those of you who do not have access to this movie,
         please refer to Handout 1A as an alternate exercise.
  </text>

Results in this display:

If you have access to the internet, please review the "Building on the Past" video located on the website¹. For those of you who do not have access to this movie, please refer to Handout 1A as an alternate exercise.

The output shown above would be displayed in the PDF version of the content; the online version of the content would display the movie itself.

Attributes(what's this?)

src (optional): The location of the text file. It must be a URL value. If the text is stored as a resource with the module, the file name itself can be used (e.g. "file.txt").

Note:

Starting with version 0.6, the CNXML language does not permit URLs that contain ampersand (&) characters (i.e., http://cnx.org/example?i=1&p=2). Check all object src URLs and replace any ampersands with the entity reference "&". More information can be found on the W3C's page.

mime-type (optional): The MIME type of the text. This optional value tells each visitor's browser what sort of information is contained in the text. A list of common Internet media MIME types can be found here.

longdesc (optional): The URL of a file containing a long description of the text.

id (optional): A unique identifier, whose value must begin with a letter and contain only letters, numbers, hyphens, underscores, colons, and/or periods (no spaces).

Using the <text> tag

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