Line breaks in Section text? - Mambo

brownpau · September 20th, 2004, 21:02

I don't know if I'm missing something painfully obvious, but how do I have Mambo parse line breaks in stories into <br /> and <p></p> tags?

I have Content Sections and Categories up for various authors to start submitting articles for an alumni association website, but these people don't know HTML. (Mostly AOL users, the lot of them.) Shouldn't the software have a "Convert Line Breaks" checkbox somewhere, such as one would find on other CMS's like Movabletype or Wordpress? Because if there is, I haven't seen it, and I can't find anything in the documentation or via Google.

Pleeease don't tell me that the whole development process somehow overlooked a "Convert Line Breaks" option.

I'm running a CMS for people who can't tell a <p> from an "Any" key.

Thanks in advance!

nSonic · September 21st, 2004, 04:39

are you using the htmlarea2 or 3 editor? i thought that empty lines are detected as breaks with them....

of course, if no WYSIWYG-Editor is activated then the input is interpreted "as is" and you need to type html (not very nice)

I have this problem too in the backend (havn't tested it in the fronted with wysiwyg yet) because there's just a simple editor available

brownpau · September 21st, 2004, 06:36

Ah, I see what the problem is; I wasn't using IE. Ugh. I hate opening up IE. :sad:

nSonic · September 21st, 2004, 08:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by brownpau

Ah, I see what the problem is; I wasn't using IE. Ugh. I hate opening up IE. :sad:

havn't tested it yet - but i've read, that htmlarea3 should work with Mozilla/Firefox too

What browser do you use?

brownpau · September 22nd, 2004, 14:50

Camino on Mac OS X 10.2.8. Camino runs on Gecko like FireFox, but I'll get Firefox tonight and see if it works properly.

brownpau · September 22nd, 2004, 17:07

Nope, htmlarea3 doesn't come up in Firefox 1.0 on MacOS X 10.2.8. Not even in IE5.5 for Mac OS X. This is seriously bad; no CMS should lock its users into Windows just to get line breaks.

Can anyone recommend a hack or a plugin for this?

stingrey · September 23rd, 2004, 00:15

The problem lies in the WYSIWYG Editors.

We use off the shelf GPL Editors, so the problem lies with the Editors not being able to operate on those Systems/ & Browsers. I'm not sure but WYSIWYG PRO which is acommercial product may work in those environments

Also try RTE, which comes standard in 4.5 1.0.9
Simply type in rte into the editor text box.

That or maybe TinyMCE.

September 20th, 2004, 21:02	#1
brownpau Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 5	Line breaks in Section text? I don't know if I'm missing something painfully obvious, but how do I have Mambo parse line breaks in stories into <br /> and <p></p> tags? I have Content Sections and Categories up for various authors to start submitting articles for an alumni association website, but these people don't know HTML. (Mostly AOL users, the lot of them.) Shouldn't the software have a "Convert Line Breaks" checkbox somewhere, such as one would find on other CMS's like Movabletype or Wordpress? Because if there is, I haven't seen it, and I can't find anything in the documentation or via Google. Pleeease don't tell me that the whole development process somehow overlooked a "Convert Line Breaks" option. I'm running a CMS for people who can't tell a <p> from an "Any" key. Thanks in advance!

September 21st, 2004, 06:36	#3
brownpau Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 5	Ie Ah, I see what the problem is; I wasn't using IE. Ugh. I hate opening up IE. :sad:

September 22nd, 2004, 17:07	#6
brownpau Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 5	Mac browsers don't work Nope, htmlarea3 doesn't come up in Firefox 1.0 on MacOS X 10.2.8. Not even in IE5.5 for Mac OS X. This is seriously bad; no CMS should lock its users into Windows just to get line breaks. Can anyone recommend a hack or a plugin for this?

September 23rd, 2004, 00:15	#7
stingrey Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Marikina, Manila, Philippines Posts: 5,153	The problem lies in the WYSIWYG Editors. We use off the shelf GPL Editors, so the problem lies with the Editors not being able to operate on those Systems/ & Browsers. I'm not sure but WYSIWYG PRO which is acommercial product may work in those environments Also try RTE, which comes standard in 4.5 1.0.9 Simply type in rte into the editor text box. That or maybe TinyMCE. __________________ All my posts are copyright © Rey Gigataras [aka stingrey] and cannot be be reproduced without permission Former Mambo Core Team Member July 2004 - August 2005

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September 21st, 2004, 04:39	#2
nSonic Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 86	are you using the htmlarea2 or 3 editor? i thought that empty lines are detected as breaks with them.... of course, if no WYSIWYG-Editor is activated then the input is interpreted "as is" and you need to type html (not very nice) I have this problem too in the backend (havn't tested it in the fronted with wysiwyg yet) because there's just a simple editor available

September 22nd, 2004, 14:50	#5
brownpau Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 5	Camino on Mac OS X 10.2.8. Camino runs on Gecko like FireFox, but I'll get Firefox tonight and see if it works properly.

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