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enabling buttons on the editing page
Posted: 12 December 2005 10:28 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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hi!

this is my first time doing this. literally if it’s more difficult than a toaster it take me time.

but…

a) how do i enable the bold, italics and underline buttons on the editing pages?

b) what are the numbered buttons for?

my pm machine is v.2.4

thanks
anSel

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Posted: 12 December 2005 11:00 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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Look for an “Entry Form Prefs” link in the top “weblog” group of the Control Panel navigation.

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Posted: 13 December 2005 02:17 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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hi michael! and thanks! i found the section. but didn’t see anything specifically that would allow me to enable. when i type text, highlight it and click the “b” for bold nothing happens. does this program function like msword??
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Posted: 13 December 2005 07:48 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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It’s not that advanced.  All these buttons do is put the proper codes in at the end of whatever field your cursor is in.  EE is quite a bit nicer in this regard.

When you bring up the entry form prefs, are there values in the numbers 11-16?  The bold button, for example, pulls it’s code from #13 - so the value in that field on the entry prefs page should be ”

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Posted: 13 December 2005 08:16 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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the values are there. so, do i have to actualy have to cut and paste the<> before and after the text in order to use it? boy, that’s a chore.(;_;)

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Posted: 13 December 2005 12:16 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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oohansel - 13 December 2005 08:16 AM

the values are there. so, do i have to actualy have to cut and paste the<> before and after the text in order to use it? boy, that’s a chore.(;_;)

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Yeah, sorry.  Maybe you could delegate or outsource that part of the process...wink

I find that, other than blockquotes, I just type everything in rather than use those buttons.

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Posted: 14 December 2005 01:06 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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i should be so wealthy to outsorce that. may i can get my buddy bill(gates) to do it ha hah ha anyways, thanks lots for all your help. i hope that i can do the same for someone one day. c yAAA! anSel

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Posted: 14 December 2005 01:53 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]  
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is there a place where i can fimd the codes for centering text. left justification, etc?

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Posted: 14 December 2005 07:44 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]  
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Create/specify those in your stylesheet (CSS) file.

For example, here’s the CSS I use in a blog entry:

.entry  {
font
-size: 75%;
line-height:150%;
padding-bottom:25px;
padding-left:20px;
padding-right:20px;
text-align:justify;
}

The last line specifies the justified the text.

The CSS is referenced in the weblog multi-entry template:

<div class="entry">
<
h2><a href="%%comments_url%%">%%title%%</a></h2>
<
p class="entrydate">%%date%%</p>
%%
blurb%%%%body%%%%more_link%%
<
div class="author">%%comments_link%% <a href="%%comment_permalink%%">permalink</a>  | Category:%%category%% </div>
</
div>

Once in a while if I want something centered I’ll just do this kind of thing on the fly in the blog entry:

<div align="center">text here</div>

You could put that code into one of the unused formatting buttons.

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