On 14 Nov 2010, 7:14 pm, Solutions Etcetera wrote:
Ideally, define your base paragraph style by modifying .p. I would also suggest you create all styles via the Styles palette, otherwise you will end up with countless temporary styles with meaningless names that could be deleted at will should the object they are assigned to be removed or changed.
Ah, thank you for this followup! This confirms and clarifies what I was just starting to intuit.
It’s getting clearer and clearer to me that the right way to start a Freeway site is NOT to open up the program and start plopping in text and pictures. The best way is to give careful thought to shared elements of structure, design and formatting. That means, thinking really hard about master pages. It means defining the style sheet and then using it without fail.
Try to apply your styles to containers when possible.
I read it in the reference guide, as well. But I am having difficulty making this work.
I’ve created a style “.sidebartext”. This is the style’s NAME, to use the term found in the new style definition dialog in Freeway. It is tied to no tag. So in normal CSS, I think this would be a class, that is, I’d apply it with this code:
<p.sidebartext>Some text here
My problem is, I can’t apply it to an item. I have a text box on my master page; the item is named “sidebar.” I select the item in the site listing (left side of the screen) and then in the styles inspector, I click on “.sidebartext.” So far, so good. But the formatting associated with the style doesn’t in fact get applied. The style is supposed to turn the text yellow (say). But it doesn’t.
It works if I click into the html item, select all the text, and apply the style. THAT works.
Will
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