Hi, knows anyone why the FCKEditor adds < p > tags to the pasted text. I've saw in the tutorial, there wasn't any < p > tags, when the text was pasted into the editor.
And when I enter an linebreak ( < enter > ), then the editor makes a mess with the text, for example it added < p >....< / p >.

That's not what I want to achieve. Has anyone an idea, how to fix this.

Thanks pfrauholle

in my message above there are some hidden text...with tags (above) I meant p tags, which is added to the editor when text is pasted or even if I do line breaks.
Thanks for any help on this...pfrauholle

I've got the same problem... Did you find anything to keep FCKEditor from doing that?

Jacob

This is an option on one of the FCK editor's configuration files.  See http://cksource.com/forums/viewtopi...=6&t=6869.

You will want to make changes to BOTH fckconfig.js in Providers\HtmlEditorProviders\Fck\Custom and Website\Providers\HtmlEditorProviders\Fck\FCKeditor

I have a question I think is related. I followed the DNNCreative tutorials in issue 8, volume 1 but when I select text in the fckeditor and apply a style to it, it applies the style to the whole section...Not just the line I hightlight as is shown in the tutorials.. How can I fix this? I even added the example skin to see if it was css related.. Same results.. Thanks Aad

Is the source code using p tags or break tags, it may be worth attaching a txt doc to a forum post with the source code you are adding into the FCKEditor and then letting us know what you are attempting to highlight and set a style for, thanks

Hi Lee, I am just playing around with content, I have attached an example of some content from the home page.
I have tried to change the entermode in the fckconfig.js files as suggested by Joe, and results have been confusing at best, frustrating to be more honest. My body text in the ventrian news article seems to disappear when I don't use < p > in the entermode, and if I do use the < p > entermode, any styling is applied to the whole text plus I get unwanted empty lines before and after the text... Any help would be much appreciated!!

My website, by the way, is www.cubeconsulting.nl

Thanks
Aad

Hello,

Interesting website! - In that text you have attached, you can try changing the div tags for p tags, so it would be:

< p class="quoteright" >
< p class="clear" >

the one above may even work as

< br class="clear" / >

Also, if you require a break tag within a paragraph you can press shift and enter to create a break tag

Hi, Thanks for your reply. I changed the entermode and shiftentermode in the fckconfig files to br and p. Shift Enter now gets me a new paragraph surrounded by line breaks, just Enter gets me a nice line break. I did some more delving in your tutorials and found in the fck tutorials a skin.css and fckcustom.xml file which feature span styles. They seem to allow for partial line/paragraph styling. Still wonder why the tutorial approach from issue 8 doesn't work for me, but this will do I guess. Many thanks for your continued support and excellent tutorials Aad

In the skin.css don't look for span, look for the class that is mentioned in the span tag, those should be in the skin.css file

You may also want to checkout the later FCK tutorials such as:
FCK Editor Formatting Style Definitions

Lee, I went through the FCK tutorials to see if I overlooked anything before. But in video 6 of the first series you demonstrate how you highlight a random sentence in a paragraph and apply a format to it and with me that style in that case will be applied to the whole paragraph. Can you help me with that one? Thanks Aad

What style do you wish to apply to that area? are you applying a span tag with a class to the line of text?

I was trying to add the quote on left and right styles. From the tutorial it appeared you could pick any section of a paragraph and apply the style. I did notice you created styles in the fckstyles.xml file with element = div, in later tutorials I found styles with element = span which do allow styling a section in a paragraph. I wonder why this did not work for me with the style element=div. Also if I re-apply a style again to lose the formatting, that does not happen for me... Any thoughts would be welcome! Thanks Aad

Hello,

Bear in mind that when the earlier FCK tutorial was created, the FCK editor just created br tags rather than p tags, so it was easy to select any section of text and style it with div tags.

Now I would suggest that you stick with the p tags method, but for quotes left and right, also place them in p tags using the styles in the fckstyles.xml.

Thanks,

Hi Lee, thank you for your reaction. I have done some tests with p tags versus span tags and div tags.. It's all Chinese to me, but I will settle for the p approach as you suggested. Final question on this topic, if I re-select the same style to undo applying the style, nothing happens. Any idea why this is? Thanks Aad

By the way, thanks for recommending Ventrian newsarticles module. After some initial going back and forth and in combination with dnnUI's newslider it is pretty smooth sailing!

I think the undo style option only works for certain elements, it's not something that you can rely on 100%, I can't remember the example that I provided for the undo approach, are you trying this in exactly the same way that I demonstrated in the video?

Hi Lee, yes I copied the styles from your tutorial and select and re-select the same text bits to get the formatting undone, but to no avail. Not to worry, I select Normal and the formatting is gone. I just wanted to understand what I did wrong.

In a similar quest to understand the dnn universe, in Ventrian NA I was struggling with the [hassumary] tokens which made my [details] content disappear. Apparently the summary is not empty when using the br entermode in the fckeditor, it leaves one br tag. The [hassumary] is then valid, and the [details] token which is between [hasnosummary] token is not displayed. Took me a while and a lot of sedatives before I found that one out..

that's interesting, thanks for posting the info,

I think a lot of people (including me) using Ventrian NA and/or DNNui's Newsslider would benefit greatly from one of your tutorials on these modules... The forums on their respective websites are helpful, but I think decent documentation (inlcuding examples) sorely lacks, making it a trial and error experiment to get things to work properly!