Baz,
She's referring to the text editor CSS drop-down box. You create a CSS file
and can assign it to a text placeholder. I'll show you tomorrow if you like
:)
Cheers,
Gavin
2008/10/1 Simon Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi UberGeekGirl,
>
> That sounds really good, and I understand the code. But how did you
> add the dropdown into the standard text editor? Did you just go into
> the backend files and edit the code there? I'd be keen to hear, as we
> have a similar requirement here.
>
> Simon.
>
> On Sep 30, 12:57 pm, UberGeekGirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > We have recently done this for one of our clients.
> >
> > We have a custom "style" that is given as an optyion in the text-
> > editor dropdown. To assign it to the table, they highlight the table,
> > check the <div> check box, and then selct that style from the
> > dropdown. This adds a div around the table with the class name that
> > they chose. In our main CSS files we style this table off the div:
> >
> > div.styledTable table {
> > etc.
> >
> > }
> >
> > We were able to even change the JavaScript to add the "zebrastripe" by
> > searching the dom for that div and then altering the tr tags within
> > it.
> >
> > Please note: I have only done this with the RedDot Text editor in IE,
> > not the FCKEditor.
> >
> > Hope that helps!!
> > Ashley
> >
> > On Sep 25, 8:26 pm, BjP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks Chris,
> >
> > > I guess setting the id of the table is the big one. If you can do
> > > that then you will get the styles picked up. But trying to teach
> > > editors how do to this could prove to be tricky! ;-)
> >
> > > Cheers,
> > > BjP
> >
> > > On Sep 24, 10:47 pm, Chris Nixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > > The tables are certainly a pretty frustrating object to deal with. I
> would certainly suggest using the FCK editor, you can at least see the
> borders to manipulate them when the width is set to 0.
> >
> > > > We then use a site level css to style them, and add a zebrastripe js
> file to the mix for better readability. The catch with this is that an
> predefined ID has to be set to the table.
> >
> > > > I find typically that if I create the table and assign the ID, the
> editors will just add and subtract items from it, usually never creating a
> new table.
> >
> > > > Chris Nixon
> > > > Director of Communication Technology Services
> > > > University Relations - University of Arkansas
> > > > 800 Hotz Hall - Fayetteville, AR 72701
> > > > 479-575-5629
> >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of BjP
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 7:00 PM
> > > > To: RedDot CMS Users
> > > > Subject: Using Tables in RedDot
> >
> > > > Hello,
> >
> > > > I would like to hear of anyone who has had success in the creation
> and
> > > > styling of tables within the text editor of RedDot.
> >
> > > > I know traditionally the code that the text editor spits out is far
> > > > from pretty but would like to hear of how you styled it effectively
> in
> > > > a way that would work in the published site. Did you use the
> > > > stylesheet assigned to the editor? Did you just use styles at the
> > > > site level instead?
> >
> > > > I have the requirement to have a generic end content template that
> has
> > > > the ability to have good looking table results for featuring listing
> > > > such as sport league tables, timetables, programming info and instead
> > > > of creating some sort of dynamic reddot creation of tables use the
> > > > features already in the text editor product.
> >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > BjP- Hide quoted text -
> >
> > > - Show quoted text -
> >
>
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