Title: Xbel javascripts do not work. Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Xbel javascripts do not work. * Resolved [mrmac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrmac/) * (@mrmac) * [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xbel-javascripts-do-not-work/) * Hi, I installed Xbel on my website but I didnâ€™t manage to make it work. * As you can see ([http://lxp.it/index.php/my-bookmarks/](http://lxp.it/index.php/my-bookmarks/)) the folders do not uncollapse. * I tried to disactivate any other plugin (but Ezstatic, needed by xbel). I tried to use the xbel file downloaded from another xbel-hacked site, I tried to surf the site with IE (instead of Firefox), I tried to put the tag in a post rather than in a static page, I tried to use other plugins than EZ to run xbelâ€¦ * Nothing! The js for uncollapse the folders seems really not to workâ€¦ * Any suggestion on what can cause this failure? * Thanks!! Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/) * (@kafkaesqui) * [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xbel-javascripts-do-not-work/#post-222536) * Always look for the error (when it comes to javascript): * `Error: toggleFolderView is not defined Source File: javascript:toggleFolderView(' nbMi72') Line: 1 * I see this (in Firefox) when clicking on your javascript links. Check your js code; the quotemarks in it are being converted to numeric character references( for “pretty” single-quotes: ‘ and ’), and this is playing havoc with it’s functionality. * Question: Can you move your javascript function into your ``? That’s really where it belongs. * Thread Starter [mrmac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrmac/) * (@mrmac) * [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xbel-javascripts-do-not-work/#post-222575) * Hi Kafkaesqui and thank you for the support. * Thanks to your suggestions I began to better understand what’s up with the script and – above all – I understood how to make a deeper diagnosys in the future on similar problems. * Yet, my programming skills are a bit rusty (does it says anything “turbopascal v.3.0”?) 😉 * I managed to locate the text of the script (here below) but I have no clue on how to fix the problem. I’m even unaware if having the text of the scripts itself can allow you (or anybody else) to support me (however I try!). * Concerning your question, for the little knowledge I developed of WP in these past two weeks, I believe that it’s impossible to move the JS to the head part of the page: the script is inserted via a php call in the actual text of the post/page (XBEL plugin)… if you have suggestions – however – I will be glad to try them out. * > * Many thanks! Mac. * [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/) * (@kafkaesqui) * [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xbel-javascripts-do-not-work/#post-222593) * “the script is inserted via a php call in the actual text of the post/page” * Yes, it would be inserted with the help of the `wp_head` hook, which should be in the `` of your template (usually header.php). However, your Page source shows the javascript (above) is appearing in the `` of your document, just before your bookmark links actually begin. So the question is, how is the plugin able to add the javascript in this portion of your Page? * Another question is how the quotes are being converted, but I suspect if we can answer the first, the second will be dealt with. * [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/) * (@kafkaesqui) * [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xbel-javascripts-do-not-work/#post-222594) * Actually, I took a closer look at this plugin, and the only element being inserted* automatically* is the stylesheet link. The js is added as part of the `xbel()` function. Are you calling this function within a Page template, or rather somehow from its content (i.e. Write/Manage > Pages)? * Thread Starter [mrmac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrmac/) * (@mrmac) * [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xbel-javascripts-do-not-work/#post-222598) * The procedure I followed is the one described by the author of the plugin: I inserted the following snippet of code * > * in the editor window of Write/Manage. In order to process it I installed EZstatic plugin, but I also tried (and got the same problems) with “the execution of all things” and some other plugin who is supposed to execute pieces of code… * Does this help to help? 🙂 * [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/) * (@kafkaesqui) * [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xbel-javascripts-do-not-work/#post-222599) * Either WordPress or a text formatting plugin is converting the quotes when handling the Page content. Without doing some digging I can’t say what to change to fix this, but I can suggest another method to incorporate it into your Page: * 1. Make a copy of your theme’s page.php template, and call it bookmarks.php. * 2. Edit bookmark.php in a text editor (or your WordPress Theme Editor). First, add this to the very top of it: * ` * Then right after [The Loop](http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop) portion of your template (or within it but after `the_content()`), add: * `` * 3. Go to Manage > Pages, edit My Bookmarks, and select “Bookmarks” from the Page Template dropdown list (then click Edit Page). * More information on Page templates: * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Page_Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Page_Templates) * Thread Starter [mrmac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrmac/) * (@mrmac) * [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xbel-javascripts-do-not-work/#post-222601) * Kudos to you, Kafkaesqui, for having found a perfect solution for what I needed to do. Now the page works exactly as I wanted… Moreover I learnt different useful things along the way… hope I will be able to support others in the future! * [http://lxp.it/index.php/my-bookmarks/](http://lxp.it/index.php/my-bookmarks/) Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘Xbel javascripts do not work.’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [collapse](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/collapse/) * [javascript](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/javascript/) * 7 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [mrmac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrmac/) * Last activity: [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xbel-javascripts-do-not-work/#post-222601) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics