I'm trying to render a general link field like this - FieldRenderer.Render(item, "link")
.
This works as expected but how do I set custom text within the a tag that gets rendered. I want my output to look something like this
<a href="[link from sitecore]">[custom text from another field]</a>
Basically, the text for the link should come from another field on the item.
Thanks
You probably want to try the following:
@Html.Sitecore().BeginField("Link Field")
//custom code
@Html.Sitecore().EndField()
Jason has a great idea, but this functionality is out of the box.
@Html.Sitecore().BeginField("Link Field", new { haschildren= true })
@Html.Sitecore().Field("Text Field")
@Html.Sitecore().EndField()
No need to modify anything at all.
Varun's answer is definitely correct, however you will encounter an issue when the content editor has put a value into the Description
field of a General Link
. The link renderer will output both the description and whatever is between the BeginField
and EndField
methods.
A solution would be to allow for an extra parameter (HideDescription
) which can hide the description. Two possible solutions for this would be;
- Override the standard
Sitecore.Xml.Xsl.LinkRenderer
class with your own that would stop the description from being put in.
- Add a custom pipeline step after the
Sitecore.Pipelines.RenderField.GetLinkFieldValue
which will do some post rendered processing to remove the description.
Option 2 is less invasive but is a little more difficult to make sure the results are 100%. Once you have this you can then render fields like the following;
@Html.Sitecore().BeginField("Link Field", new { HideDescription = true })
@Html.Sitecore().Field("Text Field")
@Html.Sitecore().EndField()
already has been answered but this worked for me
@Html.Sitecore().BeginField("Target URL", item.InnerItem, new { text = @Html.Sitecore().Field("Title", item.InnerItem) })
@Html.Sitecore().EndField()
You can also use begin and end-field and use the haschildren property, this will hide the text and just display any child-content between the begin and end statements:
@Html.Sitecore().BeginField("ItemName/ID", Model.DataSourceItem, new {
haschildren = true,
@class = "my-custom-class"
})
<span class="extra-content">
@Html.Sitecore().Field("Text Field")
</span>
@Html.Sitecore().EndField()