question about styles in (dynamic) MarkUp element

Re: question about styles in (dynamic) MarkUp element

atelier — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:17:27 -500

In the meanwhile (back at the ranch) a lot has happened.

Todd was so kind to help me out with some valuable tips. I did some experiments, and found the following methode a workable solution:

I used the extension for EE called Simple Translator, to create a multi-lingual dynamic site http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/51959/ and in order to make it work in the FW file that I use as EE template I have made:

1) inline HTML element, with values for height and width, overflow visible 2) the EE code element as text in this element, no style attached 3) Remove-P-tag action to this HTML element.

Result, after processing by Expression Engine the validation was OK, the text grows (as expected), the language code element works fine, and MSIE 7 shows page correctly. (only MSIE 6 makes soup of the FW CSS menu ;~)

Note: If the HTML box is set to: no width, no height, then MSIE shows nothing, Safari 2.0 shows nothing. Safari 3 shows correct, so does Opera (Windows) etc etc. Quite a lot of difference there.

I do hope this helps others that want to combine FW with Expression Engine. BTW I find the action written by Joe Muscara extremely useful for this purpose. http://t2studios.com/freeway/more.php?id=76_0_1_0_M

Thank you all for the advise

best regards, Hans

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Re: question about styles in (dynamic) MarkUp element

atelier — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:08:35 -500

@Todd

I created an inline MarkUp element with the code in it, and attached TimPlumb’s remove paragraph action to it. No good validation, but the text becomes larger in the browser when enlarging text.

Then I also attached also Crowbar to this element. No good validation.

Then I took away the code in the MarkUp element, and did put the code into Crowbar. No good valitation.

This was my testresult. Page with the latest change can be seen here: http://www.monumentmaker.nl/tempindex.php/mm/testmm/

Thank you for looking at it.

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Re: question about styles in (dynamic) MarkUp element

atelier — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:44:23 -500

Walter, thank you really very much for this action. I tried it out, and the result is good, that is to say, my page passes through the validator. But now I find myself in the same spot as before, my page is not readable by MSIE 6 nor 7.

And very strange that the text does not grow when I enlarge text in the page (Safari 3.0.4, under 10.4.11). I did not have that when the code was in the embedded MarkUp element.

Settings for the HTML box are: overflow visible, but I see in the source

<div id=”translatorsimple” style=”position:relative; width:145px; height:70px; padding:10px; overflow:hidden; font-size:1px”> <ul class=”simple-translator”><li class=”selected first”>Nederlands</li><li>Svenska</li><li class=”last”>English</li></ul></div>

Hope to hear from you

Hans

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Re: question about styles in (dynamic) MarkUp element

waltd — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 02:43:41 -500

It’s been around since 2005. I just started working today on a version that could be put inline, so you could put your markup in the middle of a block of text and still get the code outside of any P tags.

What I’m imagining is that you could have a paragraph, then a lump of code that makes a UL, then another paragraph, and not end up with your UL wrapped in a P tag.

Walter

On Mar 1, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Todd wrote:

Hey Walter, that’s pretty slick. Is it new?

You know, rolling Weaver’s Remove P Tag action and yours together would be wickedly useful for CMS integration. Make CrowBar a sub- function of RPT which could be enabled as needed.

Todd

On Mar 1, 2008, at 12:13 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:

Apply it to an HTML box, select beginning or end, and then enter your code in the Code dialog. If there is any content within the box, your code will be shifted in either before or after it, outside of any tags that might already be in there.

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Re: question about styles in (dynamic) MarkUp element

Todd — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:42:24 -500

Hey Walter, that’s pretty slick. Is it new?

You know, rolling Weaver’s Remove P Tag action and yours together would be wickedly useful for CMS integration. Make CrowBar a sub- function of RPT which could be enabled as needed.

Todd

On Mar 1, 2008, at 12:13 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:

Apply it to an HTML box, select beginning or end, and then enter your code in the Code dialog. If there is any content within the box, your code will be shifted in either before or after it, outside of any tags that might already be in there.

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Re: question about styles in (dynamic) MarkUp element

waltd — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:13:21 -500

That would be perfect, as long as there isn’t any additional text in the same box that needs to have a paragraph wrapped around it.

I have worked around this particular problem using an Action called CrowBar. If you want to give it a try, it’s in my repository. Apply it to an HTML box, select beginning or end, and then enter your code in the Code dialog. If there is any content within the box, your code will be shifted in either before or after it, outside of any tags that might already be in there.

Walter

http://freewaypro.com/actions/downloads/

On Mar 1, 2008, at 10:19 AM, Todd wrote:

What about using the Remove Paragraph Tag action on the element? That action is very useful (essential, even) when integrating some, if not all, CMS into FW.

Todd

On Mar 1, 2008, at 7:16 AM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:

Somehow, you have an unordered list (bulleted list) inside a paragraph.

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Re: question about styles in (dynamic) MarkUp element

Todd — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:20:06 -500

What about using the Remove Paragraph Tag action on the element? That action is very useful (essential, even) when integrating some, if not all, CMS into FW.

Todd

On Mar 1, 2008, at 7:16 AM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:

Somehow, you have an unordered list (bulleted list) inside a paragraph.

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Re: question about styles in (dynamic) MarkUp element

Todd — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:20:06 -500

What about using the Remove Paragraph Tag action on the element? That action is very useful (essential, even) when integrating some, if not all, CMS into FW.

Todd

On Mar 1, 2008, at 7:16 AM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:

Somehow, you have an unordered list (bulleted list) inside a paragraph.

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Re: question about styles in (dynamic) MarkUp element

atelier — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:51:40 -500

I did not do the list myself in Freeway, the list gets generated after I publish and put things on the server.

It’s not easy for my to explain what happens here, because I do not “speak the code language” I can only explain it like I understand it myself….;~(

In short:

I have in my FW page an inline MarkUp element. This Element is just one word, it’s a piece of code. That piece of code calls from the server the list that you see in the HTML. I had an issue with styles, I got a lot of help here, so I use this extra piece of CSS information in the Page MarkUp and my style problem is gone. That was great. But now I see that the page does not get validated (one error), and I think that it’s is important to have things right.

I noticed that another page -using the same code- http://www.exaprotect.com/resources/newsletters also does not get validated, and for the same reason (as you see there are some more errors…..) So I wrote the author of the plugin about this. Maybe he’ll fix this in an update? You can see my post here: http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/51959/P108/#361514

But in the meanwhile I asked my question here as well, hoping for a FW solution.

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Re: question about styles in (dynamic) MarkUp element

waltd — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:16:46 -500

Somehow, you have an unordered list (bulleted list) inside a paragraph. Did you do this directly in Freeway, or did you use a markup item or another hand-coding trick?

Walter

On Mar 1, 2008, at 4:56 AM, atelier wrote:

I do hope some code-expert can help me out with this one too.

I tried to validate the page, and it seems that the output is not correct.

This is the error:

Line 142, Column 34: document type does not allow element “ul” here; missing one of “object”, “applet”, “map”, “iframe”, “button”, “ins”, “del” start-tag.
<p><ul class=”simple-translator”><li class=”selected first”> href=”http://ww ✉

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question about styles in (dynamic) MarkUp element

atelier — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:36:09 -500

I cannot find anywhere in manual nor in any CSS tutorial the solution for this minor problem. It’s just too complex for me.

I develop this website, basics made in the demoFW5. The pages are dynamic, made possible by certain code-elements that pull info from the database. One of these code-elements generates a list with linksand has to be placed inside an inline MarkUp element in order to function in the page.

My problem:

I cannot style the links that get generated. They are now blue underlined, which I do not want. I tried the several methods which usual work , creating new styles with specific names, wrap the markup inside a HTML box with the linkstyle action, etc etc)

Please have a look here: http://www.atelier.box.nl/haal_op/Afbeelding_1.png the HTML code to be found here: http://www.atelier.box.nl/haal_op/

I know it’s possible to format these links, an exempel can be seen here: http://www.exaprotect.com/resources/newsletters (look to the right, where one can choose one’s language) They even put a nice flag there, not that i would want that, but still…

Can someone please explain to me what I need to do with Freeway to be able to control the looks of these links?

Thank you all very much

Hans

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