HTML Formatting broken in text boxes

afx

I do have spaces in front of my links, but once I press done, they get removed.
If I then edit again, the spaces are also invisible in the edit window.
And why do do I get the WYSIWYG Editor and not plain HTML so that I can make sure the formatting is really what I want and not what the broken editor thinks is right?

cheers
afx

jasonscottphoto

I am having the same problem. Also experienced this if I made a word or two bold. I gave up trying to fix it and will try again at another time. For now it looks a little silly

mbrady

Yes, I've seen the same thing with the spaces in front of links disappearing. Also, if you have some line breaks in your text and you go in and out of the editor a lot, the line breaks get bigger and bigger. Fortunately those extra line breaks do not appear on the actual site (although the lost space before links is a problem on the actual site).

Lindy

Hey Folks,

Although the html box is not what you're accustomed to using, it the right place for you to add your html.

atx, your screenshot shows you're using the text box.

We do have a hero asking questions about your html box complaints, too.

Thanks!
Lindy
SmugMug Support Hero

afx

Lindy,
I have no clue what you are trying to tell me.

thx
afx

jasonscottphoto

Lindy - We're talking about a text box, with links created using the LINK tool that is a built in part of the text box element. We're not writing html code to create these links...

jasonscottphoto

Here's a page with text boxes. Anything that I made a link, bold, underlined, etc lost the space in front of it and my text looks all squished now.

http://www.jasonscottphoto.com/Jason-Scott-Photography/FAQs/Wedding-FAQ

(And I won't go into the fact that my multiple photo block doesn't show up because I am using photos from an unlisted gallery... UNLISTED, not PRIVATE...)

HamsterHuey

Yeah, text boxes seem quite broken. I was testing a theme with a sidebar and had a text box with text in it, but if I selected centered justification, it would show it in the preview, but when I hit okay, the text would revert back to being left justified. I really don't understand how absolutely basic things like this were not fixed before shipping this upgrade.

jemostrom

This is a bug that has been acknowledged by Smugmug, the workaround for the moment is to use an HTML box instead of a text box. Apparently they are working on a fix.

bbeck4x4

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paulbrock

similar thread: http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=237350

Darter02

I have to admit, I too am getting frustrated with both the HTML Blocks, and the Text Blocks. Neither seem to work really well. I'd also like to see the actual text and codes I'm placing in the editor, instead of how it is now.

bbeck4x4

Rather than have all of that code I ended up putting a slide show in with just the photos that I wanted, honestly I think it looks better now, new site, new solutions, hopefully in time sales will prove it correct.

Darter02

bbeck4x4 wrote: »

<ul>
<li> sample text</li>
</ul>

this is NOT Working as well as inserting a picture in html

This is an issue for me as well. If I enter ul codes in the HTML block everything just comes up at a list, with no bullet points. If I use this code in the text editor I get the parent and only the first children indented in bullet points, but any second children (off the first) appear as first children, and do not have an addition indent.

This is on my legacy site.



This is how the text block makes it look. The html block just makes a list, with no bullets, or indents at all.

bbeck4x4

Update, this is what fixed the issue of no bullet points in a html
CSS

.blacktext li {
  list-style: inside;
}

[HTML]
<div class="blacktext">
<ul>
<li> text goes here</li>
</ul>
</div>
[/HTML]

This did work, the "blacktext" can be named anything that you want it to be named.

Darter02

bbeck4x4 wrote: »

Update, this is what fixed the issue of no bullet points in a html
CSS

.blacktext li {
  list-style: inside;
}

[HTML]
<div class="blacktext">
<ul>
<li> text goes here</li>
</ul>
</div>
[/HTML]

This did work, the "blacktext" can be named anything that you want it to be named.

That did indeed add bullets to the HTML block, but they still don't (is "nest" the word I want?) If you look at my screencap from my old index page, you'll see how it goes:

Travel

---

> Pennsylvania

---

>Gallery.

What I get with that code is:
>Travel
>Pennsylvania
>Gallery

In the text box the same thing happens, but it's also a lot neater in appearance. It also "nest" like this:

Travel

---

>Pennsylvania

---

>Gallery

Darter02

This CSS, provided from an annon helper, added to the CSS tab of a CSS block fixed my nesting bullets issue. THANK YOU!

ul {
list-style: inside;
margin-left: 12px;
padding: 5px 0;
}

jasonscottphoto

The space in front of links issue seems to be fixed (although I am finding I have to go through my pages manually to fix it in ones that were already broken.)