Formating text (bio, etc.) and line breaks with indexhibit 2.)

rpallesen / 2012-09-13 04:46:33   

I've set up a dev site for my new website and I'm now at a point of trying to set up my bio which is text, with multiple line breaks, etc. I've copied a text document (ascs) into the text portion of an exhibit and the line breaks are weird.

How do I manage this?

What settings do I need to do this?

Do I do it in HTML?

Thank you, bob

arsondpi / 2012-09-13 05:39:53   

...you can use html tags that you can predefine their properties with css.
An div predefined with a two line-break height:

  1. .twolines { height: 2em; }

But have you got a url address so we can see? Can you be a bit more precise as to what you're after?

rpallesen / 2012-09-13 06:03:29   

robertpallesen.com/indexhibit/bio/

I am familiar with table based html for the most part. The width is way too narrow here and I want to be able to control the line breaks?

Thanks

rpallesen / 2012-09-13 08:10:49   

Can someone shed light on how to control length of text lines? Is there an exhibit that is designed to style text? Does everything need to be coded prior to being put into indexhibit?

thanks

arsondpi / 2012-09-13 10:26:00   

in Admin->Assets->style.css find line 44.

  1. #exhibit p, code, blockquote {
  2.     margin-bottom: 1em;
  3.     width: 450px;

Change the width according to what you're after and/or add properties do create what you want...

benbusch / 2012-12-05 16:21:10   

Why does the text input box automatically generate
tags? Shouldn't the text input box be free of automatic style generation so that I can actually control where my breaks, headings, paragraphs, etc. are? Is there a way to make the text input pure HTML?

Vaska A / 2012-12-05 16:22:32   

Yes, just click on the green P - which stands for page processing.

Most people want the auto-formatting...

benbusch / 2012-12-05 16:37:41   

Oh wow. Thank you! Sorry for the redundant post I just made. So quick!

Vaska A / 2012-12-05 17:55:30   

Closing this thread because I believe the original question was answered appropriately (and time has passed).

This thread has been closed, thank you.