editor help

[tompaxton]

Hi there

I'm using the standard editor that came with cmsms v 1.1.2 and don't really understand how it works at all. Surely if i am using the 'p' style on one of my pages that i have set in the editor, then when i change the properties of the 'p' style in the css it should change. e.g. the color of the font. However when i do this nothing changes. i also don't understand in general how it works, how do you attach a css stylesheet to it?

Thanks a lot
Tom

[SideshowBob]

Hi Tom,

Sometimes when using the editor I notice that it omits the tags. I think this happens if I use the "paste as text" button.

Check your source to be sure. Otherwise please post a link.

Bob

[Dr.CSS]

The editor should have any style sheet marked as Media Type: screen in the style dropdown, not all styles will show up on the text you input in the editor but when it shows up on the page it should use the CSS...

To check if it has the tag just click in the text some where and the 'format' should change to show 'paragraph'...

[tompaxton]

It is using the tag, and thats what i am saying, when i change the styling of the in the css it doesn't update the text even though it is using the tag...

[tompaxton]

well i think its using the tag. At the bottom of the editor it has "path:p"

is that right?

[RonnyK]

Tom,

if you press the HTML-button while editing a page, do you then ONLY see a around the text, or is more available. Often (while pasting text) fonts/styling/size is pasted as well.

For the connected stylesheets, go to the Layout -> Templates and press the CSS-button on the right of the template that is attached to your page. Than all attached stylesheets will be shown. There you can also attach/unattach stylesheets to your template.

Ronny

[tompaxton]

ok

there is only around the text. Of the attached stylesheets only one has "p" in it, it must be the one that styles that text, but when i change the size or any property nothing happens.

Thanks for the help.

[RonnyK]

Tom,

do you have a link. Not only the is the one that can be styled, maybe you have something like:

#pagewrapper p

as well, that is more specific than just the "p".

Ronny

[tompaxton]

i unfortunately don't have a link, but the code is really simple, like this: Hello.

So i don't think it has anything else.

[RonnyK]

Tom,

what I mean is that the Hello is inside some other containers. Pagewrapper/main/content. Styling can be done at several levels. If your content-area is within DIVs, that DIV can have a P-styling as well, not "p" but "DIV p" so to say. Can you post your template and main stylesheet in this topic to see if another paragraph element is active.

Ronny

[tompaxton]

ok, starting to understand. Here it is:

Template:




{* Change lang="en" to the language of your site *}



{sitename} - {title}
{* The sitename is changed in Site Admin/Global settings. {title} is the name of each page *}

{metadata}
{* Don't remove this! Metadata is entered in Site Admin/Global settings. *}

{stylesheet}
{* This is how all the stylesheets attached to this template are linked to *}

{cms_selflink dir="start" rellink=1}
{cms_selflink dir="prev" rellink=1}
{cms_selflink dir="next" rellink=1}
{* Relational links for interconnections between pages, good for accessibility and Search Engine Optmization *}


{literal}

=b){nw=b+"px";}if(w



#pagewrapper {width:expression(P7_MinMaxW(720,950));}
#container {height: 1%;}


{/literal}
{* The min and max page width for Internet Explorer is set here. For other browsers it's in the stylesheet "Layout: Left sidebar + 1 column" *}





{* The above JavaScript is required for CSSMenu to work in IE *}







    {* start accessibility skip links *}
   
      {anchor anchor='menu_vert' title='Skip to navigation' accesskey='n' text='Skip to navigation'}
      {anchor anchor='main' title='Skip to content' accesskey='s' text='Skip to content'}
   
    {* end accessibility skip links *}


   
    {* Horizontal ruler that is hidden for visual browsers by CSS *}


  {* Start Header, with logo image that links to the default start page. Logo image is changed in the stylesheet  "For template: Left menu + 1 column" *}
 
          {cms_selflink dir="start" text="$sitename"}
 
 
  {* End Header *}


  {* Start Search *}
 
          {search}
 
  {* End Search *}


  {* Start Breadcrumbs *}
 
        {breadcrumbs starttext='You are here' root='Home' delimiter='»'}
 
 
  {* End Breadcrumbs *}


  {* Start Content (Navigation and Content columns) *}
 

      {* Start Navigation *}
     
        Navigation
        {menu template='cssmenu.tpl'}
     
     
      {* End Navigation *}


      {* Start Content Area *}
     
        {print showbutton=true script=true}
        {title}
        {content}


        {* Start relational links *}


{anchor anchor='main' text='^ Top'}

       
            {cms_selflink dir="previous" label="Previous page: "}

            {cms_selflink dir="next"}
       
        {* The label parameter doesn't need to be there if you're using English, but is here to show how it's used if you don't want the English text "Previous page" *}
{* End relational links *}

     
     
  {* End Content Area *}


 
  {* End Content *}


  {* Start Footer. Edit the footer in the Global Content Block called "footer" *}
 
      {global_content name='footer'}
   
  {* End Footer  *}


{* end pagewrapper *}



Stylesheet:

/*****************
browsers interpret margin and padding a little differently,
we'll remove all default padding and margins and
set them later on
******************/
* {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}

/*
Set initial font styles
*/
body {
  text-align: left;
  font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  font-size: 75%;
  line-height: 1em;
 
}


/*
set font size for all divs,
this overrides some body rules
*/
div {
  font-size: 1em;
}

/*
if img is inside "a" it would have
borders, we don't want that
*/
img {
  border: 0;
}

/*
default link styles
*/
/* set all links to have underline and bluish color */
a,
a:link
a:active {
  text-decoration: underline;
/* css validation will give a warning if color is set without background color. this will explicitly tell this element to inherit bg colour from parent element */
  background-color: inherit;
  color: #18507C;
}

a:visited {
  text-decoration: underline;
  background-color: inherit;
  color: #18507C;                /* a different color can be used for visited links */
}


/* remove underline on hover and change color */
a:hover {
  text-decoration: none;
  background-color: #C3D4DF;
  color: #385C72;
}

/*****************
basic layout
*****************/
body {
  background: url(images/cms/back.jpg);
  color: #333;
  margin:1em;    /* gives some air for the pagewrapper */
}

/* center wrapper, min max width */
div#pagewrapper {
  margin: 0 10em;      /* this centers wrapper */
  max-width: 90em;  /* IE wont understand these, so we will use javascript magick */
  min-width: 60em;
  color: black;
}


/*** header ***
we will hide text and replace it with a image
we need to assign a height for it so that the image wont cut off
*/
div#header {
  height: 90px;    /* adjust according your image size */
             
}

div#header h1 a {
/* you can set your own image here */
  background: url(images/cms/newlogo.png) no-repeat 0px;
  display: block;
  height: 80px;            /* adjust according your image size */
  text-indent: -999em;  /* this hides the text */
  text-decoration:none; /* old firefox would have shown underline for the link, this explicitly hides it */
}

/* position for the search box */
div#search {
  float: right;
  width: 23em;    /* enough width for the search input box */
  text-align: right;
  padding: 0.6em 0 0.2em 0;
  margin: 0 1em;
}

div.breadcrumbs {
  padding: 1em 0 1.2em 0; /* CSS short hand rule first value is top then right, bottom and left */
  font-size: 90%;        /* its good to set fontsizes to be relative, this way viewer can change his/her fontsize */
  margin: 0 1em;        /* css shorthand rule will be opened to be "0 1em 0 1em" */
  border-bottom: 1px dotted #000;
}

div.breadcrumbs span.lastitem {
  font-weight:bold;
}

div#content {
  margin: 1.5em auto 2em 0;  /* some air above and under menu and content */
}


div#main {
  margin-left: 29%; /* this will give room for sidebar to be on the left side, make sure this space is bigger than sidebar width */
  margin-right: 2%; /* and some air on the right */
}

div#sidebar {
  float: left;        /* set sidebar on the left side. Change to right to float it right instead. */
  width: 26%;    /* sidebar width, if you change this please also change #main margins */
  display: inline;  /* FIX IE double margin bug */
  margin-left: 0;
}

div#footer {
  clear: both;      /* keep footer below content and menu */
 

div#footer p {
  font-size: 0.8em;
  padding: 1.5em;      /* some air for footer */
  text-align: center;  /* centered text */
  margin: 0;
}

div#footer p a {
  color: #fff; /* needed becouse footer link would be same color as background otherwise */
}

/* as we hid all hr for accessibility we create new hr with extra div element */
div.hr {
  height: 1px;
  padding: 1em;
  border-bottom: 1px dotted black;
  margin: 1em;
}

/* relational links under content */
div.left49 {
  width: 49%; /* 50% for both left and right might lead to rounding error on some browser */
}

div.right49 {
  float: right;
  width: 49%;
  text-align: right;
}




/********************
CONTENT STYLING
*********************/
div#content {

}

/* HEADINGS */
div#content h1 {
  font-size: 2em; /* font size for h1 */
  line-height: 1em;
  margin: 0;
}
div#content h2 {
color: #294B5F;
font-size: 1.5em;
text-align: left;
/* some air around the text */
padding-left: 0.5em;
padding-bottom: 1px;
/* set borders around header */
border-bottom: 1px solid #e7ab0b;
border-left: 1.1em solid #e7ab0b;
        line-height: 1.5em;
/* and some air under the border */
        margin: 0 0 0.5em 0;
}
div#content h3 {
  color: #294B5F;
  font-size: 1.3em;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  margin: 0 0 0.5em 0;
}
div#content h4 {
  color: #294B5F;
  font-size: 1.2em;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 0;
}
div#content h5 {
  color: #294B5F;
  font-size: 1.1em;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 0;
}
h6 {
  color: #294B5F;
  font-size: 1em;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 0;
}
/* END HEADINGS */

/* TEXT */
p {
  font-size: 30px;
  color: #ffffff
  padding: 0;
}

blockquote {
  border-left: 10px solid #ddd;
  margin-left: 10px;
}
strong, b {
/* explicit setting for these */
  font-weight: bold;
}
em, i {
/* explicit setting for these */
  font-style:italic;
}

/* Wrapping text in tags. Makes CSS not validate */
code, pre {
white-space: pre-wrap;      /* css-3 */
white-space: -moz-pre-wrap;  /* Mozilla, since 1999 */
white-space: -pre-wrap;      /* Opera 4-6 */
white-space: -o-pre-wrap;    /* Opera 7 */
word-wrap: break-word;      /* Internet Explorer 5.5+ */
font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;
font-size: 1em;
}

pre {
  border: 1px solid #000;  /* black border for pre blocks */
  background-color: #ddd;
  margin: 0 1em 1em 1em;
  padding: 0.5em;
  line-height: 1.5em;
  font-size: 90%;


}

/* Separating the divs on the template explanation page, with some bottom-border */
div.templatecode {
  margin: 0 0 2.5em;
}

/* END TEXT */

/* LISTS */
/* lists in content need some margins to look nice */
div#main ul,
div#main ol,
div#main dl {
  font-size: 1.0em;
  line-height: 1.4em;
  margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;
}

div#main ul li,
div#main ol li {
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 3em;
}

/* definition lists topics on bold */
div#main dl dt {
  font-weight: bold;
  margin: 0 0 0 1em;
}
div#main dl dd {
  margin: 0 0 1em 1em;
}

div#main dl {
  margin-bottom: 2em;
  padding-bottom: 1em;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #c0c0c0;
}


/* END LISTS */

Thanks!

[RonnyK]

Tom,

Try with a semi-colon at the end.

Now,

/* TEXT */
p {
  font-size: 30px;
  color: #ffffff
  padding: 0;
}

MUST BE:

/* TEXT */
p {
  font-size: 30px;
  color: #ffffff;
  padding: 0;
}

Ronny

[tompaxton]

thanks
put the semi colon in... no difference though

[RonnyK]

Tom,

I have to check later (from home), I don't see the reason quickly.

Ronny

[SideshowBob]

Hi Tom,

You have probably solved this one by now but as well as the missing semi-colon you are missing a closing bracket on your footer div. It's on line 141.

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div#footer {
   clear: both;       /* keep footer below content and menu */

Which should of course be :

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div#footer {
   clear: both;       /* keep footer below content and menu */
}

Once I copied the code into Dreamweaver (or anything with coloured formatting) the error was easy to see.

Hope that helps,
Bob