Formating galleries' titles

mariomario Registered Users Posts: 7 Beginner grinner
edited July 23, 2013 in SmugMug Support
My smugmug site (http://ganchegui.smugmug.com) uses HTML code to format the galleries' titles. Adding <BR><span class="nav"> between the project name and the (location,date) string, I get a line break between both, and also changes the text color from white to gray. You can see how it looks in: http://ganchegui.smugmug.com/Tematico/dotacional

But something has changed recently in smugmug. Although I am still able to format the title when creating the gallery, if I edit it later (no matter if I do it from the gallery settings page or using the direct edit link, next to the thumbnail, on the owner's view mode of the category screen) the title loses his format, and I'm no longer able to recover it.

Any idea about what has changed? Is there any way to edit the title without losing the HTML format?

Thanks.
(mario)

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  • rnrjoshrnrjosh Registered Users Posts: 266 Major grins
    edited July 9, 2013
    Unfortunately, we will no longer be supporting HTML in gallery titles going forward, sorry! At the moment, you can still add HTML to your gallery title from the gallery creation screen, though you won't be able to edit that later, or change the HTML in the gallery settings after the gallery has initially been created. That workaround will likely be removed in the future, but that will still function as a workaround for now.
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  • pmbpropmbpro Registered Users Posts: 236 Major grins
    edited July 9, 2013
    This was exactly the problem I posted about 2 days ago. I ended up just recreating the galleries, as described, putting the HTML tags in at that time. Then I placed the photos in that new gallery and deleted the old gallery. I wasn't thrilled about finding this out on the fly.

    If this workaround will be removed in the future, can SmugMug let us know and provide another solution so that we can still keep our format (instead of us having to eliminate our format/change our design to fit the changes)?
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  • alacraneraalacranera Registered Users Posts: 77 Big grins
    edited July 9, 2013
    Is this the future of HTML site wide?
    For two years and some, folks have been asking about whether HTML will continue to be supported in various fields of the basic SM template. SM has hemmed and hawed and basically not answered, 'til now. It looks like at least some HTML functionality is being abandoned.

    How much more HTML will be unsupported?

    I am completely surprised that the likes of m. bonocore have not entered this thread to say "I apologize that you are mad that we have disappeared your x many years of work on your site, but the new SM will be even awesomer".
  • mariomario Registered Users Posts: 7 Beginner grinner
    edited July 11, 2013
    That's all? Smugmug simply WON'T SUPPORT html in gallery titles in the future? I can't imagine why is smugmug leaving his clients in the lurch in this way.

    What's the matter with html in gallery titles? If it IS POSSIBLE to format them from the gallery creation screen, how can be it IMPOSSIBLE to allow editing them later?

    I must insist with pmbpro's request: If this workaround will be removed in the future, can SmugMug let us know and provide another solution so that we can still keep our format (instead of us having to eliminate our format/change our design to fit the changes)?
  • brophybrophy Registered Users Posts: 102 Major grins
    edited July 15, 2013
    Got forwarded here this eving from (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=236183)

    hmmmmmm, is my only thought :(
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  • alacraneraalacranera Registered Users Posts: 77 Big grins
    edited July 18, 2013
    A week later, and nary a word from anybody representing SM?

    The ability to fiddle with HTML was a big draw for many folks. Gallery titles have been marooned, without warning. How much more HTML functionality is going to be disappeared from under our noses?
  • mbonocorembonocore Registered Users Posts: 2,299 Major grins
    edited July 19, 2013
    Hi All,

    I sincerely apologize for missing the notices on this thread.

    While Josh is correct in that we will not be allowing HTML in the Gallery Titles from here on out, the fact that it removed the HTML from your already created Gallery Title when you edited is a bug. I have the developers looking into this as we speak and will update you as soon as I have more information.

    We will continue to support HTML. We have just removed it from this specific section.

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  • mbonocorembonocore Registered Users Posts: 2,299 Major grins
    edited July 23, 2013
    Hi All,

    We have fixed tis issue. if you update a gallery description that includes HTML, it will not remove the HTML upon Save. Unfortunately, If your HTML was erased during this period when you attempted to update the gallery title, it will not be replaced. I do apologize for this inconvenience.

    Please keep in mind, for any new galleries created, you will not be able to enter HTML in the Gallery Titles.

    Please let me know if you have any questions.

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