Retain CSS Style

dad7732 · Worker Joined: Mar 18, 2007 Posts: 224

Edit "Messages" with CSS and it's lost when saviing. Load Message format in the editor, click on "Source" and nothing is shown in the <head> tag. So, how do you retain CSS style formatting? I MUST be missing SOMEthing (as usual). Smile

Cheers, Jay

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 4853

Confused...messages can't affect what's displayed in the <head> tag. If the css class is lost from the message, that's a different issue.

dad7732 · Worker Joined: Mar 18, 2007 Posts: 224

Confusion override .. Smile

My "Messages" has a <head> tag with style. Everything in the <head> tag is lost when viewing the source and/or saving after editing the body of the message.

Cheers

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 4853

That's because head isn't defined in the allowableHTML array in config.php. You don't want this because it's defined (overridden) in the header.php file (i.e. even if the editor didn't remove it, it wouldn't work). You can do inline CSS or add the CSS (inline or linked) in the header.php, custom_header.php or javascript.php files.

dad7732 · Worker Joined: Mar 18, 2007 Posts: 224

Actually my "Messages" format on this particular site is a holdover from Nuke 6.5 in this example. What I can do is to edit the messages locally and then paste it as "source" and save. That works.

So, the only way to create style is inline in each tag in FCK without having to modify any other configuration file(s) which is fine by me. The least amount of fingers in the pie the better. Smile

Cheers

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 4853

You could also have CSS defined externally, loaded in a link rel tag, and specify the class in the editor.

dad7732 · Worker Joined: Mar 18, 2007 Posts: 224

Yep, can do that as well. Also found out something else interesting. I can enter:

Code:

at the top of the regular html, just do NOT add a <head> or anything else including a <body> tag or else the CSS will be stripped upon a re-edit.

Also interesting is that FCK will add a <p> before the <style> tag and a </p> after the </style> tag. All CSS will be intact from edit to edit and that way I don't have to do inline style, etc. However, I do like the use of the link rel tag as that's a bit easier depending on the complexity of the CSS.

Cheers

montego · Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 9:26 pm

Yeah, because embedding CSS in-line the way you are doing here will break compliance (XHTML).

dad7732 · Worker Joined: Mar 18, 2007 Posts: 224

Dunno what it's breaking, works in FF, Seamonkey, Nav 9, Flock, etc.

montego · Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 5:33 am

dad7732, if being XHTML compliant is of no value to you and it renders fine for you in all the browsers that you wish to support, then forget what I said.

dad7732 · Worker Joined: Mar 18, 2007 Posts: 224

No no ... let me restate, sorry!! What I meant was, "what does it break?". If there is a critical issue then I need to fix it, thanks.

Gremmie · Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 7:01 am

Doing it that way is non-compliant, i.e. it is against the rules of XHTML.

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 4853

dad7732 wrote:

However, I do like the use of the link rel tag as that's a bit easier depending on the complexity of the CSS.

And, it's XHTML compliant, so you get the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval (just kidding).

Seriously, you might as well just put the CSS inline (instead of insert the style outside the <head> tag). That will work and keep the compliance police happy, too.

dad7732 · Worker Joined: Mar 18, 2007 Posts: 224

Thanks guys!! It's only the one site brought up from Nuke 6.5 where there was only the basic editor AND my most important support site to boot. So .. keeping the fingers out of the pie will suffice for the moment but I will reformat the messages on THAT site on my local system making sure it works and is compliant and THEN upload it. All the rest based on RN will of course will be formatted correctly from the beginning.

Good Housekeeping Seal accepted .. Very Happy

Cheers

montego · Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 5:55 am

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and keep the compliance police happy, too

I figured someone has to pick up the charge for 64bitguy.