Text Box Issues *Any updates

Digital Ninja · October 24, 2013

Hey everyone,

When are the text box tool issues likely to be addressed, i know many people here have had issues with it.
While i've generally being impressed with the new options, the inability to properly format text really hurts my site and is a pretty essential part of site SEO.

It really is a hair tearing kind of situation!

Can anyone point me in the direction of a good html/css guide workaround for text

Thanks,
Shannon

Site is
www.digitalninjadesign.com

AceCo55 · October 24, 2013

Sorry - can't help you with any timeline.
What I have done to get around the problem is to replace my text content blocks with HTML content blocks
One CAN format these. I cobbled together the correct syntax from reading through threads and getting help from some wonderfully generous people here.
I can help you with some basics.

Digital Ninja · October 24, 2013

AceCo55 wrote: »

Sorry - can't help you with any timeline.
What I have done to get around the problem is to replace my text content blocks with HTML content blocks
One CAN format these. I cobbled together the correct syntax from reading through threads and getting help from some wonderfully generous people here.
I can help you with some basics.

Thanks for the offer, and yes any assistance would be greatly appreciated

Is your text formatted in an HTML block, any idea whether we can style this with an additional CSS block as well.

Feel free to point me towards any threads that have helped you

denisegoldberg · October 24, 2013

Digital Ninja wrote: »

Is your text formatted in an HTML block, any idea whether we can style this with an additional CSS block as well.

An HTML box automatically has a CSS tab with it - so yes, you can easily style the HTML with additional CSS.

I also recommend using an HTML box instead of a text box.

--- Denise

AceCo55 · October 24, 2013

To change font size and color I used: <span style="color: #fe7c00; font-size: 160%;"> Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah</span>
Change hex code and font % to suit

To change font: <font face="Georgia, Arial, Garamond">This paragraph has had its font...</font>

Use <br> to create a line break (just like "Enter"). There is another version for XHTML: <br \>

<p>This is normal text - <b>and this is bold text</b>.</p>

To add a hyperlink to acecootephotography: <a href="http://www.acecootephotography.com">Visit Ace's website</a>

This website shows a list of HTML tags, explains them and provides an example: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_br.asp

bwg · October 24, 2013

Digital Ninja wrote: »

Hey everyone,

When are the text box tool issues likely to be addressed, i know many people here have had issues with it.
While i've generally being impressed with the new options, the inability to properly format text really hurts my site and is a pretty essential part of site SEO.

It really is a hair tearing kind of situation!

Can anyone point me in the direction of a good html/css guide workaround for text

Thanks,
Shannon

Site is
www.digitalninjadesign.com

We have some text editor updates making their way through QA. Hope to have them out soon.

leftquark · October 24, 2013

bwg wrote: »

We have some text editor updates making their way through QA. Hope to have them out soon.

:ivar

Digital Ninja · October 25, 2013

Ah well thats a relief

Thanks for the head up!

Darter02 · October 25, 2013

To create lists in an HTML block use this in your HTML tab.

<ul>
	<li>list subject
	<ul>
		<li><a href="SOME URL">URL TITLE</a></li>
			COPY ABOVE FOR EACH ITEM
	</ul>
	</li>

	COPY ABOVE FOR EACH SUBJECT
</ul>

Place this in your CSS tab.

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

dennismullen · October 25, 2013

I was able to work around it by doing the text box editing on my iPad which worked fine.
You could try a different browser as it seems some work and some don't.

Cheers,

bwg · October 31, 2013

Just pushed an update to the text editor. Added support for headings and fixed all the formatting wonkiness. Let us know if you run into any problems.

leftquark · October 31, 2013

bwg wrote: »

Just pushed an update to the text editor. Added support for headings and fixed all the formatting wonkiness. Let us know if you run into any problems.

And yet you broke the Caption editor. I can't enter all the HTML I used to be able to. I noticed this yesterday. I had some <h4> tag's in my caption. I went to add to the caption and the <h4>'s disappeared. Now I can't add them back. Any time I add them they get removed.
Example: http://www.aaronmphotography.com/Customizations2/i-c5fQ3Tk (the text "For Gallery and Folder Images Only" should be in an <H4>)

If I go to captions that already have it, and go to edit my caption, I noticed that the closing </h4> is not displayed, but the opening <h4> is. If I click cancel my heading 4's are still there and load as headings on the page. If I click save, they go away.
Here's an example of them working: http://www.aaronmphotography.com/Customizations2/i-Zx6GJjS

I checked with <h3>'s as well. No dice.

Please fix and send a note to QA to tell them they missed this in their testing!

bwg · October 31, 2013

leftquark wrote: »

And yet you broke the Caption editor. I can't enter all the HTML I used to be able to. I noticed this yesterday. I had some <h4> tag's in my caption. I went to add to the caption and the <h4>'s disappeared. Now I can't add them back. Any time I add them they get removed.
Example: http://www.aaronmphotography.com/Customizations2/i-c5fQ3Tk (the text "For Gallery and Folder Images Only" should be in an <H4>)

If I go to captions that already have it, and go to edit my caption, I noticed that the closing </h4> is not displayed, but the opening <h4> is. If I click cancel my heading 4's are still there and load as headings on the page. If I click save, they go away.
Here's an example of them working: http://www.aaronmphotography.com/Customizations2/i-Zx6GJjS

I checked with <h3>'s as well. No dice.

Please fix and send a note to QA to tell them they missed this in their testing!

This is unrelated to the text editor update.

I will look into why heading tags aren't in the HTML whitelist for image captions.

Jtring · November 1, 2013

Text Box Issues *Any updates - Wonkiness for bwg

bwg wrote: »

Just pushed an update to the text editor. Added support for headings and fixed all the formatting wonkiness. Let us know if you run into any problems.

Hello bwg,

Grumble, grumble. I've hit a new bit of wonkiness. I have a text block that uses 14px font. It's the Change Log about 3/4 of the way down on my Tools Page. The new editor appear to have forced a line spacing of 20px for that text, which spread it out more than before. Inspecting the code shows a property of line-height:20px for the paragraph that makes up that text block, coming from Smugmug CSS item core-557bc2084111213872344df2bdd46198.css, line 448, which is quite a monster. Note I'm not seeing "line-height:normal"; I see a hard-wired number. That line height is just right for 16px text and it appear that for larger text it gets overridden appropriately. But it's wonky behavior for the smaller fonts.

I've returned my text box to the status quo ante with a CSS patch applied at the entire-site level:

.sm-widget-text > p {
 line-height: inherit;
}

This is not a disaster, but I really shouldn't have to add a patch to clean up after a push. (And worse, since I'm really still an apprentice CSS coder, I'm not always sure of the side effects of my patches.)

Jim Ringland
jtringl.smugmug.com

Text Box Issues *Any updates

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