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Hi ,
yesterday I posted a stupid question because I did not understand the way CMS works.
I am used to creating projects with html, css and ftp to do all my work, but i need to learn CMS for a new project and I am totally lost.


OK, I have discovered that tags written into templates perform the image insertion that I asked about yesterday.
The problem is, that I am utterly lost when making the next step with those images.

I have them in my content now, but do not understand how or where to put the css code that gives me a pop up enlarged image.

There are so many different style sheets and I have got myself confused.
Please, can someone guide me.

I am trying to adapt the 'css menu top 2 columns' template to my needs and have managed to customise the header section with a new image, but I am struggling to understand how to progress further at the moment.

I look forward to any replies.

Thanks
Andy.

I'm not very good at this am I?

Ok, I need to further clarify what I have done and what i hope to achieve.

I have used the tags...     
{content_image block='image1' dir='images' width='200' height='130'}
{content_image block='image2' dir='images' width='200' height='130'}
{content_image block='image3' dir='images' width='200' height='130'} 
... in my template to insert the images from /uploads into my content block.

I need to end up with a text box on mouse hover, and usually I use the following html
Text relevant to image goers here or

or for images to pop up is use

Description of image here...


I then use a whole bunch of css to perform the pop up and it seems to be easy to achieve compared to using cms.
But...I am new to all this, so ...
please, if you have any idea how i can do the above, I will be extremely happy.

Again,
Thanks
Andy

Have you even read the built in help under Extensions >> Tags?

Is that what you call help?

I have read EVERYTHING actually at least once. No disrespect but does everyone just know what all these new terms mean in the first couple of days?

I have obviously failed to understand what i should understand the moment I read it.

Sorry.
I'll look elsewhere for ideas.

(optional) urlonly - output only the url to the image, ignoring all parameters like id, name, width, height, etc.

Don't know how much simpler that can get.

calguy1000 wrote:

(optional) urlonly - output only the url to the image, ignoring all parameters like id, name, width, height, etc.

Don't know how much simpler that can get.

calguy1000...thank you for pointing that out. Now perhaps you would be kind enough to give me some clue as to how it relates to my question.
Seriously, I have searched here and the web for answers and there is sweet FA. Perhaps I do not know what search terms to use, but believe me, using google to search 'urlonly' turns up answers that mean nothing to me at all.
Any answer is only simple if you know it.

I do not know the ways of 'tags' very well yet,  but I am keen to learn and perhaps one day I will return here as a more knowledgeable person and give someone some help to pay back the help I get now.

On the other hand, I could just get sarcastic replies and not bother with CMSMS at all.

If you are using images in your content you can do this using the edit/insert image button in tiny and in that you can find all kinds of things to set for this, if you want hover from small to large image add small image then add link to it and call large image, using classes on images helps with css...