Rendering in the Frontend

The explanations on this page don't show how to display an RTE but rather, describe how rendering of content should be done in the frontend when it was entered with help of an RTE.

Note

For including an RTE in the frontend you can read Using an RTE in the frontend.

Fluid templates

Rendering in TYPO3 is nowadays done mostly with Fluid templates.

RTEs enrich content in most cases with HTML, therefore it's advisable to use the Fluid ViewHelper format.html for this kind of content:

<f:format.html><p>Visit the <a href="t3://page?uid=51">example page</a>.</p></f:format.html>

The result might still be missing some important aspects. One example are links of the form t3://page?uid=51 that need to be processed. Usually those links should be transformed already because the ViewHelper is using by default lib.parseFunc_RTE to parse the content.

Nevertheless it's possible to define the parsing function explicitely and also to define a different parsing function:

<f:format.html parseFuncTSPath="lib.parseFunc"><p>Visit the <a href="t3://page?uid=51">example page</a>.</p></f:format.html>

Note

Details to format.html can be found in the ViewHelper Reference.

TypoScript

Rendering is sometimes done by TypoScript only, in those cases it's possible to use lib.parseFunc_RTE too for parsing:

20 = TEXT
20.value = Visit the <a href="t3://page?uid=51">example page</a>.
20.wrap = <p>|</p>
20.stdWrap.parseFunc < lib.parseFunc_RTE

So for fields of the content-table in the database the TypoScript could look like this:

20 = TEXT
20.field = bodytext
20.wrap = <p>|</p>
20.stdWrap.parseFunc < lib.parseFunc_RTE

Note

Usually the TypoScript function typolink should be used for single links, but for text that might include several links that is not possible easily. Therefore lib.parseFunc_RTE is used to simplify and streamline this process.

Details to parseFunc can be found in the TypoScript Reference:

Further details

The transformation process during content-rendering is highly configurable. You can find further information here: