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z3r0c00l
WhiteSpace issue

  • 2005/5/14 16:15

  • z3r0c00l

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I'm new to XOOPS and am using the latest News module included with XOOPS 2.0.10

I'm using html in the new editor and am having problems with lots of white space showing up where If I just create a static page I have no problems at all. It seems that the editor in the news module is not reading in the html properly and adding white space.

Has anyone else had this problem and if so what is the resolution?

You can see an example of the problem at: Example

Scroll down the page and you will see the massive whitespace issue. I've stripped all <br> and <p> tags and XOOPS still seems to insert them.

Bare in mind the site that is not fully baked yet just starting the design now.

Thanks,

pat
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z3r0c00l
Re: WhiteSpace issue

  • 2005/5/15 13:16

  • z3r0c00l

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I'm still having this problem. If I try just plain HTML such as:

<table width="75%" border="1">
  <tr>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>test</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
    </table>


I get lots of white space above the table. I have no breaks or paragraph tags. The XOOPS editor seems to not like regulat html code. Do I need to try other tags?

You can see an example of this problem at: 2007 Shelby GT500

thanks

p
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z3r0c00l
Re: WhiteSpace issue

  • 2005/5/16 22:03

  • z3r0c00l

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So - now I've tried SPAW, and HTMLAREA to see if that helps. I still have the same whitespace issue. It seems as if you cannot cut and paste tables from any other editor or web pages into the editor without having these whitespace issues.

I'm trying to move some stuff from another site I maintain to a new site. I will have to re-write all the content from my old site that was in tables using the editor built into xoops, where instead it would be easier for me to just cut and paste my content.

Oh well - it's worth it. XOOPS is much faster than dotnetnuke of which I've been using for about 2 years now. the .net dll's take a while to wake up and cause very slow page reads.

thanks -
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Mithrandir
Re: WhiteSpace issue

News converts newlines to <br /> so in order to use HTML in news posts, you will have to write it all on one line.
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Mithrandir
Re: WhiteSpace issue

Btw. I have tried looking at dotnetnuke, but never got the confirmation mail that should give me a download link, so no chance for me to check it out.

What's it like? (just the highlights )
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phppp
Re: WhiteSpace issue

  • 2005/5/16 22:34

  • phppp

  • XOOPS Contributor

  • Posts: 2857

  • Since: 2004/1/25


The news module needs one more option in news/include/storyform.inc.php:
"dobr", which controls line break conversion

To add the option, db structure needs to be changed as well.
So perhaps it is an alternative forcing to disable dobr if nohtml is disabled.
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z3r0c00l
Re: WhiteSpace issue

  • 2005/5/17 1:43

  • z3r0c00l

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Quote:
News converts newlines to <br /> so in order to use HTML in news posts, you will have to write it all on one line.


Thanks -

I'll try that.

p
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z3r0c00l
Re: WhiteSpace issue

  • 2005/5/17 1:47

  • z3r0c00l

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Quote:

Mithrandir wrote:
Btw. I have tried looking at dotnetnuke, but never got the confirmation mail that should give me a download link, so no chance for me to check it out.

What's it like? (just the highlights )


It's pretty cool. I've had some trouble with the dll's loading up once in a while though.

- good for small sites
- no good message boards
- no good image galleries
- seems fairly secure
- fast to get up and running
- easy to create modules and integrate them
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Bassman
Re: WhiteSpace issue

  • 2005/5/17 1:55

  • Bassman

  • Friend of XOOPS

  • Posts: 1272

  • Since: 2003/5/23


I believe you can solve the problem by using a HTML compressor also. It probably has the same effect as writing the HTML all in one line, but without having to do it yourself. Look here for a freeware version.
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tjandt
Re: WhiteSpace issue

  • 2005/5/19 17:14

  • tjandt

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Quote:

phppp wrote:
The news module needs one more option in news/include/storyform.inc.php:
"dobr", which controls line break conversion

To add the option, db structure needs to be changed as well.
So perhaps it is an alternative forcing to disable dobr if nohtml is disabled.


Is this being addressed in the new version of Xoops? This is *KEY* to the site I am currently developing for a basketball league I run.

I take all of my Excel results, copy them into FrontPage to generate the HTML for the tables, then am currently pasting them into a Drupal web site. You can see the league site here: DC 4v4 Basketball League

Drupal allows for a data entry method that accepts pure HTML and does not add line breaks or anything like that, though I MUCH prefer the ease of use of Xoops.

The only other issue that Drupal is much better than XOOPS at is that you can easily customize the Main Menu navigation. I have yet to find a way to add specific links to the menu tree on Xoops, but am in the process of trying to learn the multimenu module as a kludge for this.

If anyone knows how to hack the db structure and code to turn off the line break conversion, please please please let me know and I'd be more than willing to try it!

Thanks,
Tim
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