Bug in Textbox with Links

phaserbeam · August 3, 2013

How to reproduce:
- Add a textbox to your site
- Add some Text, add a blank and then add a link. Everything in one line.
- If you want, add some more text after the link.
- Apply changes.

Blanks in front of a link will get removed. Text which is following a link might be removed completely.

Click on the Textbox to edit its content. The word before the link is now next to the link itself, the previously added blank really got removed.

See screenshot.

dereksurfs · August 3, 2013

Yep, I noticed that too. Here is a quick workaround until it gets fixed:

Use &nbsp for an extra space. It tried and it works fine.

Allen · August 3, 2013

Looks like just adding 2 or 3 spaces works.
Couldn't get   to work

paulbrock · August 4, 2013

similar thread: http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=236885

&nbsp working for me, thanks!

dennismullen · August 5, 2013

And everything can not be centered.

Cheers,

bwg · August 6, 2013

phaserbeam wrote: »

How to reproduce:
- Add a textbox to your site
- Add some Text, add a blank and then add a link. Everything in one line.
- If you want, add some more text after the link.
- Apply changes.

Blanks in front of a link will get removed. Text which is following a link might be removed completely.

Click on the Textbox to edit its content. The word before the link is now next to the link itself, the previously added blank really got removed.

See screenshot.

This bug has been fixed. If you currently have any squished links, you'll need to edit the text block, fix the spacing and re-save.

bwg · August 6, 2013

dennismullen wrote: »

And everything can not be centered.

Cheers,

we're working on making this behavior better, but for now you have to have some text selected for the justification to work.

dennismullen · August 6, 2013

bwg wrote: »

we're working on making this behavior better, but for now you have to have some text selected for the justification to work.

I just retested it in case you have made an improvement. It still will not justify center no matter what I do.

Cheers,

Allen · August 6, 2013

bwg wrote: »

we're working on making this behavior better, but for now you have to have some text selected for the justification to work.

I see align text left, right and center but no justify?

bwg · August 6, 2013

dennismullen wrote: »

I just retested it in case you have made an improvement. It still will not justify center no matter what I do.

Cheers,

can you provide any more details? Once I select a bit of text, things center fine for me.

http://screencast.com/t/9YOOhIGT

phaserbeam · August 7, 2013

bwg wrote: »

can you provide any more details? Once I select a bit of text, things center fine for me.

http://screencast.com/t/9YOOhIGT

Nice Screencast... but that seem to be different from what i'm getting here. Tested with Opera and Firefox and Text will not be centered. Yes, if i select all text in the textbox and select 'center' it will be shown centered inside of the textbox but unlike in your screencast it's not centered on the site. If i select DONE it stays left. See Screenshot taken with Firefox.

Indeed the problem with no blanks in front of a link seem to be fixed.

Not sure if this is a browser problem but when i add a link and add some more text right after the link this text will be cut off when i select "DONE". As a workaround i can hit ENTER and add some more text and remove the extra CR later.

But at least i can not center any text. Using HTML right now to do that but too bad the accent color is not respected for links here.

Allen · August 7, 2013

phaserbeam wrote: »

...Using HTML right now to do that but too bad the accent color is not respected for links here.

The html box has a CSS tab connected to it, can't you add the color there?

a { color: blue;}
a:hover { color: red;}

phaserbeam · August 7, 2013

Allen wrote: »

The html box has a CSS tab connected to it, can't you add the color there?

Yes, that works... but i would like to have the accent color being used by default, since that can be changed using a theme without edit any HTML/CSS box.

If you have a look to my site you'll see a text on top of the site with HTML and a white LINK and on bottom of the site is a TEXT with a accent colored LINK.

As a workaround i'm using [a class="sm-accent" href=...] inside of the HTML box to let a link use the accent color. Not sure if that is a good idea, but at least this color will now change if i edit the accent color in my theme.

dennismullen · August 7, 2013

bwg wrote: »

can you provide any more details? Once I select a bit of text, things center fine for me.

http://screencast.com/t/9YOOhIGT

It appears to work but after saving text is still to the left.
Someone suggested it's browser specific.
I use Firefox.

I use css to get it to work but I'd like the accent color on a link I'm using.

Cheers,

dennismullen · August 7, 2013

I just tried editing a text on my ipad and it works fine.

Cheers,

phaserbeam · August 7, 2013

dennismullen wrote: »

I just tried editing a text on my ipad and it works fine.

Tested OperaNext on Windows and there it works also... so this really depends on the browser. I wonder why center in HTML works using the text-align:center element but pure text cannot be centered by all browsers.

jasonscottphoto · August 9, 2013

phaserbeam wrote: »

Yes, that works... but i would like to have the accent color being used by default, since that can be changed using a theme without edit any HTML/CSS box.

If you have a look to my site you'll see a text on top of the site with HTML and a white LINK and on bottom of the site is a TEXT with a accent colored LINK.

As a workaround i'm using [a class="sm-accent" href=...] inside of the HTML box to let a link use the accent color. Not sure if that is a good idea, but at least this color will now change if i edit the accent color in my theme.

Oooh, can that (sm-accent) be done in the theme css somehow so I don't have to do it in every html box I make?

jasonscottphoto · August 9, 2013

Allen wrote: »

I see align text left, right and center but no justify?

+1 for justify

ramdisk · September 20, 2013

text centers but I can't save changes it just hangs-up

ramdisk · September 27, 2013

ramdisk wrote: »

text centers but I can't save changes it just hangs-up

Has there been any change to centering text within a text box?

ramdisk · September 28, 2013

almost 2 months.....can someone from smugmug please give us some input on this issue or at less let us know your working on a solution

mbonocore · October 2, 2013

ramdisk wrote: »

almost 2 months.....can someone from smugmug please give us some input on this issue or at less let us know your working on a solution

Are you referring to the Centering issue?

ramdisk · October 6, 2013

mbonocore wrote: »

Are you referring to the Centering issue?

Yes I am, on my home page if I try to center my copyright info, in the open edit of the text it centers but smugmug looks up and I have to shut down my browser (IE 10). Right now I added space to the front of the text to get it to center

dennismullen · October 6, 2013

ramdisk wrote: »

Yes I am, on my home page if I try to center my copyright info, in the open edit of the text it centers but smugmug looks up and I have to shut down my browser (IE 10). Right now I added space to the front of the text to get it to center

Your fix isn't ideal as it will look different on different sized monitors.
I used an html block like this as a work around....

<p style="text-align: center;">© Dennis Mullen - all rights reserved</p>

Cheers,

ramdisk · October 6, 2013

Dennis thanks I'll give this work around a try

Bug in Textbox with Links

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