Thanks for the info.
If I can assign an id to the text editor or have a generic table style
in the text placeholder it should hopefully do the job. Would love to
see some W3C compliant code
coming out of the text editor though when adding in things such as
tables.
BjP
On Oct 1, 7:24 pm, "Gavin Cope" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 -
>
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