Question

I am using CodeIgniter’s anchor tag to generate links

Here’s the code I am using in my view :

<?=anchor('blog/post/'.$row->id,$row->title);?>

Above code is rendering the url like

<a href="http://localhost/Blog/index.php/blog/post/3">Title</a>

I wanted to know other ways to embed other HTML elements within <a> tags ?

Output on HTML page should look like :

<a href="link" rel="bookmark"> 
    <span class="location">Category</span>
     <h3 class="headline">Headline</h3>
     <span class="new">New !</span>
    <span class="date">Date</span>
  </a>

ie. within <a> tags I want to embed <span> and <h3>

Any suggestions ?

Answer 1

Just use the second parameter of the anchor method, like this:

$a ='<span class="location">Category</span>
     <h3 class="headline">Headline</h3>
     <span class="new">New !</span>
    <span class="date">Date</span>';

<?=anchor('blog/post/'.$row->id,$a.$row->title,array("rel" => "bookmark"));?>

Additionaly I added a third parameter which lets you write the html attributes for the tags like; in this case, the ‘rel’ attribute.