RSS Styling question

Daniel · Apr 7th, 2007, 23:20

Right. I've successfully set up a RSS feed.

Now I need to know how to style it

Here's the Thread Post RSS Construct which controls what the user sees.

Now for some reason it wont accept [] or <> tags

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{XML[title]}
{XML[description]}
Released: {XML[pubDate]}
Link: {XML[link]}

I want to make the title bold and the link clickable - any ideas?

pa007 · Apr 7th, 2007, 23:40

You can style feeds with css but this renders the links unclickable which may be a problem. Your best bet is probably to style the feed with xlst which can be quite complex if you aren't familiar with. I'll admit that it isn't as common as css and there less resources knocking around.

Strictly speaking, though it is more user friendly, there's no need to style a feed.

Pete.

Daniel · Apr 7th, 2007, 23:42

http://www.worldfootballforums.com/l...2-1-wolves.htm <-- that is the result of one of the feeds (note to mods - leave the link - its linking to one of robs sites anyway)

as you can see the rss feed works but it would be good for users to be able to click the link to read the whole article...

pa007 · Apr 8th, 2007, 00:19

There's a a tutorial here that might be of some use but it does get pretty complex in parts. It uses css and xsl to make the feed look loverly.

Pete.

Daniel · Apr 8th, 2007, 00:28

thats for external css sheets

this has to be internal - guess ill have to leave it as it is and hope none of the users say owt lol