{"id":57347,"date":"2025-01-23T03:01:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T17:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=57347"},"modified":"2025-01-20T18:52:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T08:52:32","slug":"wordpress-bold-for-strong-deprecation-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wordpress-bold-for-strong-deprecation-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Bold for Strong Deprecation Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WordPress Bold for Strong Deprecation Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

Let’s face it, this blog posting<\/a>‘s original premise has been waiting in the wings, for publication. Things move on, and it is published now, pushed up the priority list as we discovered …<\/p>\n

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  1. issues, resulting in transparent text, regarding code<\/i> elements when hosting b<\/i>old<\/sub> and\/or strong<\/i> elements, that had several line breaks in them, as so we added a new document.body onload<\/i> calling Javascript function into the workings of good ol’ TwentyTen theme header.php logic, as per …
    \n<?php echo ”
    \n
    \nfunction precalpass() {
    \n var cdes=document.getElementsByTagName('code');
    \n var blinearrs=[], jit=0, blrecs=[], wasblr='', toblr='', kit=0, delimx=String.fromCharCode(10);
    \n for (var itdzs=0; itdzs<cdes.length; itdzs++) { \/\/ thanks to https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/784539\/how-do-i-replace-all-line-breaks-in-a-string-with-br-elements
    \n if (('' + cdes[itdzs].innerHTML + ' ').substring(0,2) == (String.fromCharCode(13) + String.fromCharCode(10))) {
    \n cdes[itdzs].innerHTML='<br>' + cdes[itdzs].innerHTML.substring(2);
    \n }
    \n if (('' + cdes[itdzs].innerHTML + ' ').substring(0,1) == (String.fromCharCode(10))) {
    \n cdes[itdzs].innerHTML=' <br>' + String.fromCharCode(10) + cdes[itdzs].innerHTML.substring(1);
    \n }
    \n if (cdes[itdzs].innerHTML.replace(\/(?:\\r\\n|\\r|\\n)\/g, '<br>') != cdes[itdzs].innerHTML) {
    \n cdes[itdzs].innerHTML=cdes[itdzs].innerHTML.replace(\/(?:\\r\\n|\\r|\\n)\/g, '<br>');
    \n }
    \n while (cdes[itdzs].innerHTML.indexOf(String.fromCharCode(13) + String.fromCharCode(10) + String.fromCharCode(13) + String.fromCharCode(10)) != -1) {
    \n cdes[itdzs].innerHTML=cdes[itdzs].innerHTML.replace(String.fromCharCode(13) + String.fromCharCode(10) + String.fromCharCode(13) + String.fromCharCode(10), String.fromCharCode(13) + String.fromCharCode(10) + '<br>' + String.fromCharCode(13) + String.fromCharCode(10));
    \n }
    \n blinearrs=cdes[itdzs].innerHTML.split('<b>');
    \n for (jit=eval(-1 + eval('' + blinearrs.length)); jit>=0; jit--) {
    \n delimx='<br>';
    \n if (eval('' + blinearrs[jit].split('<\/b>')[0].split(delimx).length) > 6) {
    \n blrecs=blinearrs[jit].split('<\/b>')[0].split(delimx);
    \n wasblr='<b>' + blinearrs[jit].split('<\/b>')[0] + '<\/b>';
    \n toblr=wasblr;
    \n for (kit=1; kit<blrecs.length; kit++) {
    \n if (blrecs[kit].replace(String.fromCharCode(13),'').trim() != '') {
    \n toblr=toblr.replace(blrecs[kit], '<\/b><b>' + blrecs[kit]);
    \n }
    \n }
    \n if (cdes[itdzs].innerHTML.indexOf(wasblr) != -1) {
    \n cdes[itdzs].innerHTML=cdes[itdzs].innerHTML.replace(wasblr, toblr);
    \n }
    \n }
    \n }
    \n blinearrs=cdes[itdzs].innerHTML.split('<strong>');
    \n for (jit=eval(-1 + eval('' + blinearrs.length)); jit>=0; jit--) {
    \n if (eval('' + blinearrs[jit].split('<\/strong>')[0].split(delimx).length) > 6) {
    \n blrecs=blinearrs[jit].split('<\/strong>')[0].split(delimx);
    \n wasblr='<strong>' + blinearrs[jit].split('<\/strong>')[0] + '<\/strong>';
    \n toblr=wasblr;
    \n for (kit=1; kit<blrecs.length; kit++) {
    \n if (blrecs[kit].replace(String.fromCharCode(13),'').trim() != '') {
    \n toblr=toblr.replace(blrecs[kit], '<\/strong><strong>' + blrecs[kit]);
    \n }
    \n }
    \n if (cdes[itdzs].innerHTML.indexOf(wasblr) != -1) {
    \n cdes[itdzs].innerHTML=cdes[itdzs].innerHTML.replace(wasblr, toblr);
    \n }
    \n }
    \n }
    \n if (cdes[itdzs].innerHTML.trim() == '') { cdes[itdzs].style.display='none'; }
    \n }
    \n}
    \n<\/code>
    \n?><\/p>\n

    … to remedy this issue …<\/p>\n

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    … and to add to …<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    We’ve reached the time when measures to counteract our “deprecation bound”<\/a> penchant for using the b<\/i><\/a> HTML element in WordPress blogs has come home to bite us! Do you remember our first steps with WordPress Bold for Strong Tutorial<\/a> regarding b<\/i> elements that spanned several lines of text? Well, we need to be more pre-emptive here, because …<\/p>\n