the ferh mystery

[elotroalex]

hi @untra. Thanks for this wonderful gem. Just ran into a glitch that I hadn't before. This is my 3rd site using your gem. In this glitch for some reason this code generates a ferh= inside my <a> element, instead of the expected href=. Needless to say, the links in the language switcher don't work:

<!-- LANGUAGE SELECTION -->                 
                
           {% for language in site.languages %}
              {% if language == site.active_lang %}{% else %}
                <li><a style="color: #0080ff;" {% static_href %} href="{% if language == site.default_lang %}{{ "" | absolute_url}}{{page.url | remove: "/"}}{% else %}{{"" | absolute_url}}{{ language }}{{page.url}}{% endif %}"{% endstatic_href %} >
                {{ language }}</a></li>
              {%endif%}
          {% endfor %}

[elotroalex]

Interesting to note is that this only happens with $ jekyll build and not on $ jekyll serve. I'm kinda amazed by this glitch.

[elotroalex]

Ah. Just found that you write this explicitly wrong so that you can catch it with a post-processor:

# href writes out as ferh="..." explicitly wrong, to be cauaght by seperate processor for nonrelativized links

This means the static_href might not be functioning fully somehow in my line.

[untra]

Hello @elotroalex 👋 , thanks for the praise, and sorry for the bug.

Yeah that is supposed to be caught by the postprocessor, which honestly is not a good approach and is rather wasteful.

Interesting to note is that this only happens with $ jekyll build and not on $ jekyll serve. I'm kinda amazed by this glitch.

now that is curious; I wonder why the different jekyll build commands would do that? is the build process actually running polyglot and relativizing? If you shoot me a link to your project I'd be happy to look

[lucmartinon]

Hello,
I would like to reopen this issue: I also have a project where I don't use jekyll serve, only jekyll build, since I have anyway an nginx server running to serve a data api. I seems to me that this is causing the static_href tag to not function.

I added a detailled example on a personal website that is in construction:

code here:
https://gitlab.com/lucmartinon/cnrs_pfas_web/-/blob/main/frontend/pages/about.fr.md?ref_type=heads

which is published here
http://vps-8ea64a15.vps.ovh.net/fr/about/

the link to /about is changed to /fr/about although it is in a static_href tag.

Beside this, fantastic plugin! thanks a lot!