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   cgv
   Member

   Hi all,

   I'm new to page lime and I'm really liking it so far!

   I'm having some issues with style sheets though. A few problems:

   I have some text that consists of 3 paragraphs (all three use the same style). I wrapped an editable div around all three paragraphs and published. When I click edit, and highlight the text in the editor and change it around, everything works well.

   However, if I try to select all and then paste my text over top of it from an external text editor (textedit for example), I lose my styling. If I check the html in the editor, I can see that my paragraph tags are completely gone.

   I then tried selecting all the text in the editor and trying to apply a style from the style drop down box, but it doesn't work - nothing shows up when I click on Styles. I've tried point to my .css file in the advanced tab already.

   I know I can get around this by just deleting the text and typing it in, but I know my clients will want to cut and paste. Any ideas on how to approach this or why my style drop down doesn't show anything?

   Posted 3 months ago #
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   cgv
   Member

   Okay... I'm an idiot. I was linking the style sheet incorrectly.

   So, now I can see my styles in the drop down.

   However, how do I apply a style to a paragraph? If I put my cursor in the paragraph and choose a style, nothing happens.

   If I highlight part of the text or the whole paragraph and then choose a style, it works but it's not putting my style in the paragraph, it's creating a <span> tag.

   Any ideas?

   Posted 3 months ago #
3. 

   cgv
   Member

   Anyone?

   Posted 3 months ago #
4. 

   cronos916
   Administrator

   Hey there. There is a paste button in the editor, try using that when pasting. Sometimes if you paste from another application you lose/get styles. Let us know if that helped.

   Posted 3 months ago #
5. 

   cgv
   Member

   Hi,

   It's not the paste that's the problem.

   Most users, when editing text, will select all the text in the edit box and then just start typing in their own. If a user presses ctrl/cmd+a and then just starts typing, the formatting is lost. If a user highlights the words and then starts typing, the formatting is kept.

   If the formatting is lost and then we try to apply a style from the drop down menu, it applies it as a <span> and not a <p>.

   Posted 3 months ago #
6. 

   cronos916
   Administrator

   do you plan to have multiple different styling for you p tags? So that you user can choose how to style your p tags?

   Personally I don't use the dropdown option. I totally lock down the styles so they can not be changed. In this case I would style the p and span tag the way I want so that the client can't mess it up.

   Also check the browser your client is using. For some reason I had an issue a while back with IE adding a p tag to everything. We solved it by using Firefox instead.

   Posted 1 month ago #

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