I wonder if anybody has any solutions to some styling text issues I am having with TinyMCE rich text editor. I created a WebYep stylesheet in Freeway Pro 5 so these could be used in the Tiny MCE rich text editor but it seems to have a mind of its own. Sometimes it’s fine and allows the user to change the style of the text but other times although it recognises the style when the user highlights it, the text won’t change to that style. For example I may want to change the default paragraph text to ‘h2blue’ style (I created in Freeway Pro / WebYep) which will work fine and then I want the next line to be ‘h3red’ but it will keep reverting to the h2 style and will not let me change the style. Then I will try and change it to the default paragraph and again it seems to have got stuck. I have even tried copying the text from TextEdit in plain text but it still doesn’t work. It seems a bit buggy and wondered if anyone can suggest another option.
At the moment a client of mine is having issues with it and most of their content is using WebYep so to change the editor would mean all their content would disapppear so if anyone has any suggestions that doesn’t right off TinyMCE that would be great.
Mog - I have never used TinyMCE or WebYep, so I may not be the one to
answer this.
CSS styling is what tells the web browser how to display your content. If
your content is not appearing as it should, this is where I think you
should check.
Open the external stylesheet Freeway Pro makes for you in a text editor
(like TextEdit) and look to see if your style is in there. If it is not,
then open the .html file Freeway Pro makes for you (again, in a text
editor) and look in the top part before the <body> tag for the <style>
tags and see if it is in there somewhere. If it is not in either place, it
is because Freeway is not putting it there for you, and there are things
you can do to address that.
If you do find your style either in the stylesheet or the head of your
.html document, then take a look down after the <body> tag and find the
specific bit of content you applied the style to… if it does’t have a class= or id= with your style’s name, then again it somehow is not
being properly identified to the web browser for styling - which may likely
be due to how the content is being created— WebYep or TinyMCE or user
error. IF the style’s name does appear in context with your content and
the browser still does not render it, then I suspect we will have to pry
deeper to unravel what is not causing your style to be applied.
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Ernie Simpson
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 7:32 AM, mog email@hidden wrote:
Hi
I wonder if anybody has any solutions to some styling text issues I am
having with TinyMCE rich text editor. I created a WebYep stylesheet in
Freeway Pro 5 so these could be used in the Tiny MCE rich text editor but
it seems to have a mind of its own. Sometimes it’s fine and allows the user
to change the style of the text but other times although it recognises the
style when the user highlights it, the text won’t change to that style. For
example I may want to change the default paragraph text to ‘h2blue’ style
(I created in Freeway Pro / WebYep) which will work fine and then I want
the next line to be ‘h3red’ but it will keep reverting to the h2 style and
will not let me change the style. Then I will try and change it to the
default paragraph and again it seems to have got stuck. I have even tried
copying the text from TextEdit in plain text but it still doesn’t work. It
seems a bit buggy and wondered if anyone can suggest another option.
At the moment a client of mine is having issues with it and most of their
content is using WebYep so to change the editor would mean all their
content would disapppear so if anyone has any suggestions that doesn’t
right off TinyMCE that would be great.
The stylesheet is showing up in the css folder and also in the html source code so that doesn’t seem to be a problem. The styles I have created ARE appearing in the editor’s drop down list. The problem is its inconsistency. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t and there doesn’t seem to be a logical reason for it working one minute and not the next.
I’ve noticed that if I highlight just a section of a sentence the styling works but if i highlight text from the beginning of a sentence e.g if I put “Hello my name is…” and try to style the entire sentence it won’t allow it. Then I will highlight a section of that so maybe “my name is…” and it works fine. I also noticed if I have already styled some text in bold and I then want to change the style in the next sentence, if I uncheck the bold button from the editors’s toolbar and try to add a new style the next sentence it won’t allow me to do that. It just keep going back to the default paragraph text. It confirms in the editor that this is the style I have chosen but it doesn’t actually make the change. However it seems to be possible to style the next sentence if I keep it bold, then change the style and then uncheck the bold button in the editor toolbar. This seems to be quite a round about way to something that should be quite simple.
Okay, I see now… it seems clearly not a Freeway Pro or even general web
issue, but something specifically screwy with the TinyMCE editor. Hopefully
there are some other T-MCE users here that will pick up on this thread.
Best of luck,
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Ernie Simpson
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:34 AM, mog email@hidden wrote:
Hi Ernie,
Thanks so much for getting back to me.
The stylesheet is showing up in the css folder and also in the html source
code so that doesn’t seem to be a problem. The styles I have created ARE
appearing in the editor’s drop down list. The problem is its inconsistency.
Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t and there doesn’t seem to be a
logical reason for it working one minute and not the next.
I’ve noticed that if I highlight just a section of a sentence the styling
works but if i highlight text from the beginning of a sentence e.g if I put
“Hello my name is…” and try to style the entire sentence it won’t allow
it. Then I will highlight a section of that so maybe “my name is…” and it
works fine. I also noticed if I have already styled some text in bold and
I then want to change the style in the next sentence, if I uncheck the bold
button from the editors’s toolbar and try to add a new style the next
sentence it won’t allow me to do that. It just keep going back to the
default paragraph text. It confirms in the editor that this is the style I
have chosen but it doesn’t actually make the change. However it seems to be
possible to style the next sentence if I keep it bold, then change the
style and then uncheck the bold button in the editor toolbar. This seems to
be quite a round about way to something that should be quite simple.