#1973: Styles for multiple elements and context-sensitive selection
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Reporter: severy | Type: Bug
Status: new | Priority: Normal
Milestone: | Component: Core : Styles
Version: | Keywords:
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For several years now I've used the "StylesXmlPath" config variable to
dynamically load the Styles drop-down in the editor based on styles parsed
from the web page being edited. But I never quite figured out how to get
it to work properly, and just used the "span" element for every style.
This caused every document being edited to end up with lots of spans,
oftentimes overlapping several times, resulting in frustrated users. So
with the upgrade to the version 2.6 beta I decided to take another stab at
this area and I must admit I am just as confused as I've always been.
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Many web pages have styles that are applied to multiple objects in a web
page (p, a, li, etc.), but all attempts to specify a single style in the
Styles XML file that can apply to multiple elements have failed. Is such a
thing even possible? The best I could come up with was to create a variant
of each style for each possible element, for example:[[BR]]
{{{
<Style name="p.mystyle" element="p">
<Attribute name="class" value="mystyle" />
</Style>
<Style name="div.mystyle" element="div">
<Attribute name="class" value="mystyle" />
</Style>
<Style name="mystyle" element="span">
<Attribute name="class" value="mystyle" />
</Style>
}}}
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The above approach doesn't really scale when you want to have each style
available for dozens of elements, as the style drop-down would quickly
grow to an unmanageable size. Also, a lot of times the users don't even
know which type of object they have selected, and so may easily select the
wrong style (which would then change the element type to the selected
style, not a good thing).
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So how can I specify in the Styles XML file styles that can be applied to
multiple elements without resorting to the above hack? Also, I keep
hearing about how FCKeditor is smart enough to only show those styles in
the drop-down that are available for the selected object, but I haven't
been able to get that to work either. When I click in a "p" tag, for
example, I see all of the above styles in the drop-down, not just those
available for the "p" element. The above hack would work ok if only those
styles available for the selected object were shown (although the fact
that the object type is prepended to the style name would still be
annoying).
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.fckeditor.net/ticket/1973>
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