HTMLtext doesn't play well with CSS

[Tim Ponn]

OK...let me explain more fully...

Problem:

There are web geeks (myself included) who create and/or maintain web sites.  www.historicalengine.com and www.grandvalleytractor.com are two of mine.  The creation is quite easy with all the drag and drop tools available out there.  I usually tweak (sometimes heavily, sometimes not so) the graphics or the resulting page code.  When it's finished, I turn the "keys" to the site over to whoever owns it.  Unfortunately, 99.9% of the time they are clueless to web geekery.  By the time you get to the "t" in "ftp", their eyes have glazed over and they're drooling...much the same as I look when an accountant utters more than 2 syllables to my engineeringness.  ;=)  So, when it comes time to update the site, they return to my doorstep.  Not a big deal if it's once or twice a year...but when it's a club site...or the site for a bowling league...or the like...I can get requests every day!  And the changes are, in these cases, dirt simple..."Could you put these latest scores on the site?" or "Here's this months newsletter!"

The solution I'm cobbling together:

In a sentence...Let them do it themselves.  When I create the site, I insert a comment (or many, if required..maybe one per bowling team...whatever) like "<!--whevIn--><!--whevOut-->" someplace on a page.  My simple rev app contains a field and a button.  There's significant password protection, blahblah, going on that I don't need to get into here.  There's additional stuff going on also...win/loss percentages...rankings...blahblah.  But, the bottom line is...ANYBODY who can enter text and click a btn can update a page, or a range of pages or a portion of a page.  My app gets the url...inserts the text field at the "markers" I've left...then ftp's it back up to the site.  Simple.

Right now, it's just text, but I may add graphics later..jpegs, gifs, whatever.

Now, to clarify my original question:

I want the user to be able to change font sizes, make bold, italic, whatever.  I also want them to have the freedom to turn some of the text into links, etc.  When I try to use HTMLtext in rev, the results are not so good.  How do I improve it?  I mean, if I have to roll up my sleeves and just write it all...fine...but is there a wheel that somebody has created already out there?

I doubt it matters, but...17" MacBook Pro/Snow Leopard 10.6.4/Rev Enterprise 4.5.0-dp-3

Thanks!



On Jul 17, 2010, at 8:30 AM, Jim Ault wrote:

> On Jul 17, 2010, at 5:05 AM, Tim Ponn wrote:
> 
>> Hello all!
>> 
>> I'm trying to use the HTMLtext of the contents of a field to modify a CSS web page, and it butchers font sizes and style.  Is there something other than HTMLtext that I should be using?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> 
> HTMLtext is a subset of HTML tags that Rev uses to do formatting in fields.  It is not meant to be compliant with browsers, especially the modern day versions.
> When you render the web pages, do you then run compliance checking?
> Very like you have quite a few conflicts, especially if the DOCTYPE is beyond 1.0
> 
> The CSS javascript will silently at the first error and none of the other CSS will get applied.
> 
> Your description of your process is quite vague, so it is difficult to be more helpful.
> Do go to one of the many compliance checking sites, enter the url, and follow the bouncing error messages, if any.
> 
> Also visit  http://quirksmode.org  to study the interpretation variations that each browser.version uses.  The most variant is IE in its many versions.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> 
> 
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas
> 
> 
> 
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Best Regards,

Timothy R. Ponn