Been trying to get the CSS3 Column Action to work and it’s just doing nothing. Tried it first on fully designed pages with existing text and later on empty new pages with a new HTML box and dummy copy, and I never even see a result in Freeway, let alone Firefox or Chrome. No columns whatsoever. Any idea what could render it so useless?
I’m using FW 5.6.5 now, but this problem has been around for the previous couple of versions too.
Joe, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that it is because you are using
table based layout and not CSS layout.
Toggle the CSS button on, and make sure your boxes are html boxes.
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Ernie Simpson
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Joe email@hidden wrote:
Been trying to get the CSS3 Column Action to work and it’s just doing
nothing. Tried it first on fully designed pages with existing text and
later on empty new pages with a new HTML box and dummy copy, and I never
even see a result in Freeway, let alone Firefox or Chrome. No columns
whatsoever. Any idea what could render it so useless?
I’m using FW 5.6.5 now, but this problem has been around for the previous
couple of versions too.
I have never seen this Action fail to work – unless you are looking at it in IE. It just works in Safari Firefox, Chrome – all the major standards-based browsers. I think IE 10 may have support for this attribute of CSS3, but I wouldn’t bet too much on that.
The page you linked is a table-based layout. Forced to guess how you got that, I would say that Ernie was right, and that you had the CSS Layout button toggled off – to Table Based Layout. Now just switching that button back on will not change anything you already drew – it only affects things you draw after the change. To change an existing HTML box on the page into a DIV from a TD (which is the tag you currently enjoy) simply click once on the HTML box so its corner handles show up and check the Layer checkbox in the Inspector.
Once you make that change, the effect will work.
Walter
On Sep 20, 2012, at 12:38 PM, Ernie Simpson wrote:
Joe, I am confused – are you saying that my solution does not work? I could
be wrong, but in this I hardly think so.
Who developed that action? Maybe they will shed some light.
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Ernie Simpson
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Joe email@hidden wrote:
Not to saw off your limb, but it should be so easy. Thanks for taking a
stab though, and I do imagine it’s something inherent in my file somewhere.
I did try switching it on again with no change. So I guess the solution is to switch it on and start anew. So thanks for your wisdom, Ernie. I just had more to learn there.
To add some confusion here, I had originally began this site as CSS but, because I needed to create some HTML email pages too, I had to switch it off. So the switching on again should not effect those table-based email pages, right?
It’s confusing to me because I can’t just make one page CSS and another tables. Once toggled on, the button goes on for all pages, I see.
I did try switching it on again with no change. So I guess the solution is to switch it on and start anew. So thanks for your wisdom, Ernie. I just had more to learn there.
To add some confusion here, I had originally began this site as CSS but, because I needed to create some HTML email pages too, I had to switch it off. So the switching on again should not effect those table-based email pages, right?
It’s confusing to me because I can’t just make one page CSS and another tables. Once toggled on, the button goes on for all pages, I see.
Yes, but once it is on, it only affects what you draw NEXT, not anything that was already drawn on any of the other pages. Think of it as a shortcut to toggle the HTML box drawing tool from layer mode to table mode and back again. It’s not a global rewrite of existing pages.
Further to this, it’s not even a switch for the current page elements – you can mix layers (CSS button on) with table-based elements (Table button on) in the same page. You can go back and forth between the two element styles using the Layer checkbox in the Inspector, too. Select the HTML box you’re having trouble with, note the current setting in the Inspector, and change it. Preview or publish, and that TD (and the surrounding TABLE in the example you showed) is gone, replaced with a single DIV. If you had another element on the page that was drawn in table mode, it would not be altered by this switch – only the element you change (or the new element you draw after changing the button setting) will be different.
Walter
On Sep 20, 2012, at 4:03 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote: