I've spent 4 hours trying to get this to work, and I can't...any help appreciated.

Joomla 1.5.15
Sourcerer editor button v2.3.2

Trying to get this code to work in a MODULE:

<!-- BEGIN VOTESMART WIDGET -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="votesmart.org/js/widgets/search/js/jquer...script><script type="text/javascript" src="votesmart.org/js/widgets/search/js/init....t;/script><div id="pvs_search"><a href="votesmart.org">Project Vote Smart</a> - Search Candidates, Elections and Officials<br /><br />Javascript must be enabled.</div>
<!-- END VOTESMART WIDGET -->

The frustrating this is that the code WORKS when it's in an article, but NOT when it's in a module (and perhaps it's then a Joomla issue, but I can't figure it out).

My steps are:

Extensions Menu...Module Manager
New
Custom HTML (Is the the proper choice here?)
Next

Enter Title: MYMOD
Show Title: Yes
Enabled: Yes
Position: right (I want it in the right sidebar)
Order: 0

Menus: All

In Custom Output box, I click the button for "Insert Code" and replace the sample code. I'm left with:

{source}
<!-- BEGIN VOTESMART WIDGET -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="votesmart.org/js/widgets/search/js/jquer...script><script type="text/javascript" src="votesmart.org/js/widgets/search/js/init....t;/script><div id="pvs_search"><a href="votesmart.org">Project Vote Smart</a> - Search Candidates, Elections and Officials<br /><br />Javascript must be enabled.</div>
<!-- END VOTESMART WIDGET -->
{/source}

Click the "Insert" button

Then click the "Save" button

Refresh my Joomla site and the script doesn't load--I get the error code:

"Project Vote Smart - Search Candidates, Elections and Officials
Javascript must be enabled."

Very, very frustrating especially since following the same steps but using an Article rather than a Module works great.

PLEASE--can someone help me and tell me what's wrong?

Thanks!

What does the output html source look like?
maybe your editor strips the script tags, see here:
http://www.nonumber.nl/sourcerer/troubleshooting

When I view the page source, I see:

<!-- BEGIN VOTESMART WIDGET -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="votesmart.org/js/widgets/search/js/jquer...script><script type="text/javascript" src="votesmart.org/js/widgets/search/js/init....t;/script><div id="pvs_search"><a href="votesmart.org">Project Vote Smart</a> - Search Candidates, Elections and Officials<br /><br />Javascript must be enabled.</div>

<!-- END VOTESMART WIDGET -->

That looks to be the same as what I've coded (see above) but it's not rendering on the page...

So is this (somehow) a Joomla issue?

Here's the page source for the full div (I changed the name to "Try PVS" so I could find the code):

<div class="moduletable">
<h3>Try PVS</h3>

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!-- BEGIN VOTESMART WIDGET -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="votesmart.org/js/widgets/search/js/jquer...script><script type="text/javascript" src="votesmart.org/js/widgets/search/js/init....t;/script><div id="pvs_search"><a href="votesmart.org">Project Vote Smart</a> - Search Candidates, Elections and Officials<br /><br />Javascript must be enabled.</div>
<!-- END VOTESMART WIDGET -->
</script>
</div>


What's strange is that the code is the same as for the instance on the page where it's working (the Article)--so it's working once on the page correctly, and the second time it's not (or is that the problem--I can only have the code on a page once???)

Thanks for replying, and I'm hoping you can help.

Do you have a link to both pages?

Both are on the home page...the applet is loading and working as an article, but not as a module (on the right side of the page).

http://www.voteeverytraitorout.com/

Thanks for your help...it's much appreciated!

Probably the script does not like being placed twice on the page. If you remove the one in the article, does the module work then?

Ah, I see... the second one has wrong syntax.
You have placed the script inside other script tags:

Should be:

Well, made the coding changes...and no difference...BUT...took out the first instance and...voila! Success!

So--it could only take one instance of the widget on the page (I had tried that before -- taking one out -- but then the coding goof may have been the issue).

In any event, all is well...thanks!! (Wish I could use it twice on a page, but I guess I can understand that might cause a conflict with parsing results back to the appropriate place on the page).

Thanks again--whew--sometimes you can look at something for hours and a fresh pair of eyes finds it right away. (All the more reason for paired programming I guess!)

What you could do is iframe them... so make a html page that outputs only the widget and use an iframe to show that.
I know, iframes are not the prettiest of solutions...