There are ways to dirify a tag, to uppper_case it, and to lower_case it. Is there any way to force the first letter to be uppercase, but leave the rest of the word or phrase in lowercase? Make it like a sentence? I want to force conformity in some commenter values, some of which use only lowercase, some of which use sentence-capitalization, some of which might possibly use all caps.
Any ideas?
Full Version: Force first-letter uppercase
Eva Jagt Zwei Boxkämpfer Quer Durch Sylt
"capitalize" : every word begins in Uppercase
"uppercase": all word uppercase
"capitalize" : every word begins in Uppercase
"uppercase": all word uppercase
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<p style="text-transform : capitalize">Eva jagt zwei Boxkämpfer quer durch Sylt</p>
I was thinking that the Change Text Case plugin might do what you want, but now that I look at it closer, I'm not sure. That would be a nice addition to that plugin, though, so maybe let the author of the plugin know? 
Kristine
Kristine
Thank you for the suggestions. From what I can tell, Dirifyplus comes closest (along with the CSS transformation) to doing what I want, but it seems to want to capitalize the first letter of every word. I don't see a way to let a phrase have just its first word capitalized. I think it will be good enough for now though. Thanks.
Hello (maybe a little late).
I spent last weekend trying to resolve this problem. Searching here, there,, I found this 2 modifiers:
<$mt:PageTitle$ capitalize="1"> -> modifies the first char of each word of the phrase to Uppercase
<$mt:PageTitle$ upper_case="1"> -> modifies all chars the phrase to Uppercase
Then I discovered that if the site is published dynamically in php, php code can be inserted into the templates.
So, example:
But for the search result pages, whose URL is as follows: mt-search.cgi?blog_id=4&tag=tag&limit=20
the previous php code doesn´t works.. so investigating some javascript, I found this solution:
regards
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Is there any way to force the first letter to be uppercase, but leave the rest of the word or phrase in lowercase?
I spent last weekend trying to resolve this problem. Searching here, there,, I found this 2 modifiers:
<$mt:PageTitle$ capitalize="1"> -> modifies the first char of each word of the phrase to Uppercase
<$mt:PageTitle$ upper_case="1"> -> modifies all chars the phrase to Uppercase
Then I discovered that if the site is published dynamically in php, php code can be inserted into the templates.
So, example:
CODE
<h1 id="page-title" class="asset-name"> <?php $title = '<$mt:PageTitle$>';echo ucfirst($title);?></h1>
--> Only first letter of title Uppercase.But for the search result pages, whose URL is as follows: mt-search.cgi?blog_id=4&tag=tag&limit=20
the previous php code doesn´t works.. so investigating some javascript, I found this solution:
CODE
<h2 class="asset-name entry-title"><a href="<$mt:EntryPermalink$>" rel="bookmark"><$mt:EntryTitle$></a></h2>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
var x = document.getElementsByTagName('h2');
for (var i=0;i<=x.length-1;i++)
{
if (x[i].innerHTML == '<a href="http://domain.net/site-path/<$mt:EntryTitle$>/" rel="bookmark"><$mt:EntryTitle$></a>') {
var newh2 = document.createElement("h2");
newh2.className = "asset-name";
var hyperlink = document.createElement("a");
hyperlink.setAttribute("href", "<$mt:EntryPermalink$>");
hyperlink.setAttribute("rel", "bookmark");
var title = '<$mt:EntryTitle$>';
title = title.slice(0,1).toUpperCase() + title.slice(1);
var text = document.createTextNode(title);
hyperlink.appendChild(text);
newh2.appendChild(hyperlink);
var previoush2 = x[i];
previoush2.parentNode.replaceChild(newh2, previoush2);
}
}
//]]>
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
var x = document.getElementsByTagName('h2');
for (var i=0;i<=x.length-1;i++)
{
if (x[i].innerHTML == '<a href="http://domain.net/site-path/<$mt:EntryTitle$>/" rel="bookmark"><$mt:EntryTitle$></a>') {
var newh2 = document.createElement("h2");
newh2.className = "asset-name";
var hyperlink = document.createElement("a");
hyperlink.setAttribute("href", "<$mt:EntryPermalink$>");
hyperlink.setAttribute("rel", "bookmark");
var title = '<$mt:EntryTitle$>';
title = title.slice(0,1).toUpperCase() + title.slice(1);
var text = document.createTextNode(title);
hyperlink.appendChild(text);
newh2.appendChild(hyperlink);
var previoush2 = x[i];
previoush2.parentNode.replaceChild(newh2, previoush2);
}
}
//]]>
</script>
regards
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