Custom Text On Custom Pages

[flyoffacliff]

I don't know why this was not implemented. There should be a text wigit for custom pages. Kind of like the "Visual" mode on the topic/post maker. Their is an HTML one, but I don't know HTML.

[Kami]

You can input plain text on the HTML page. You don't HAVE to use HTML.

[flyoffacliff]

Dec 1, 2012 10:44:23 GMT -8 Kami said:

You can input plain text on the HTML page. You don't HAVE to use HTML.

I know, but you can't do any formatting. When posting a message, you can change text size, alignment, and much more. This is even more important for custom pages.

[Kami]

Dec 1, 2012 11:23:59 GMT -8 flyoffacliff said:

Dec 1, 2012 10:44:23 GMT -8 Kami said:

You can input plain text on the HTML page. You don't HAVE to use HTML.

I know, but you can't do any formatting. When posting a message, you can change text size, alignment, and much more. This is even more important for custom pages.

Ah, I see. I can see the benefit of a text widget, I suppose, but if you know how to format your post using UBBC, then you can do it using HTML, just change all the [ and ] to < and >, for the most part.


For example, [b][/b] for bold, <b></b> for bold. V5's changed their UBBC as well, for a bit of it, so it's more aligned with HTML eg instead of [size][/size] like in v4, it's now [font size="x][/font], which is like how it is with HTML's <font size="x"></font>. Basically, if you can format your post in v5 with UBBC, you can format text with HTML in the custom page.

[flyoffacliff]

Dec 1, 2012 11:54:36 GMT -8 Kami said:

Dec 1, 2012 11:23:59 GMT -8 flyoffacliff said:

I know, but you can't do any formatting. When posting a message, you can change text size, alignment, and much more. This is even more important for custom pages.

Ah, I see. I can see the benefit of a text widget, I suppose, but if you know how to format your post using UBBC, then you can do it using HTML, just change all the [ and ] to < and >, for the most part.


For example, [b][/b] for bold, <b></b> for bold. V5's changed their UBBC as well, for a bit of it, so it's more aligned with HTML eg instead of [size][/size] like in v4, it's now [font size="x][/font], which is like how it is with HTML's <font size="x"></font>. Basically, if you can format your post in v5 with UBBC, you can format text with HTML in the custom page.

I can't really format with UBBC either. I looked up those HTML tags online, and most of the formatting ones said "Not Supported in HTML5." here: www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_center.asp . Why is this?

[Kami]

Dec 1, 2012 12:08:33 GMT -8 flyoffacliff said:

Dec 1, 2012 11:54:36 GMT -8 Kami said:

Ah, I see. I can see the benefit of a text widget, I suppose, but if you know how to format your post using UBBC, then you can do it using HTML, just change all the [ and ] to < and >, for the most part.


For example, [b][/b] for bold, <b></b> for bold. V5's changed their UBBC as well, for a bit of it, so it's more aligned with HTML eg instead of [size][/size] like in v4, it's now [font size="x][/font], which is like how it is with HTML's <font size="x"></font>. Basically, if you can format your post in v5 with UBBC, you can format text with HTML in the custom page.

I can't really format with UBBC either. I looked up those HTML tags online, and most of the formatting ones said "Not Supported in HTML5." here: www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_center.asp . Why is this?

Because it's depreciated. Like all technology, HTML standards change over time into things that are more efficient and make more sense. If you look at the UBBC in v5 for centring text, its: [div align="center"][/div].

[flyoffacliff]

Dec 1, 2012 12:15:43 GMT -8 Kami said:

Dec 1, 2012 12:08:33 GMT -8 flyoffacliff said:

I can't really format with UBBC either. I looked up those HTML tags online, and most of the formatting ones said "Not Supported in HTML5." here: www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_center.asp . Why is this?

Because it's depreciated. Like all technology, HTML standards change over time into things that are more efficient and make more sense. If you look at the UBBC in v5 for centring text, its: [div align="center"][/div].

If its depreciated, how much longer will browsers support it for?

What on earth is a div? Why do they keep making basic scripts, such as text alignment more and more complicated?

[Kami]

Dec 2, 2012 9:27:34 GMT -8 flyoffacliff said:

Dec 1, 2012 12:15:43 GMT -8 Kami said:

Because it's depreciated. Like all technology, HTML standards change over time into things that are more efficient and make more sense. If you look at the UBBC in v5 for centring text, its: [div align="center"][/div].

If its depreciated, how much longer will browsers support it for?

What on earth is a div? Why do they keep making basic scripts, such as text alignment more and more complicated?

Dunno. You're asking questions about a nebulous 'they' like I know who controls the coding of the internet. xD
A div is a ... a div. That's just what it is. The proper definition is that it's a block-level element but that likely won't make sense to you, yeah? It's easier to think of it as just a tag that helps you style your post.

If you think about it, though, it's not more complicated at all. Say for instance you want to apply a font face, a colour, and text alignment to a particular thing. Before you'd need three different tags - the font tag, the colour tag, and the alignment tag. Now wrap everything up in <div style="font-face: times new roman; font-color: #FF0000; text-align: center;"> </div> and you have one tag that accomplishes three different things. It's much less convoluted than before.

[Patrick [ASE]]

Couple of tips, on custom pages, if you hit the html tab, then put your content above the zone tag, html will work just like a norrmal webpage, including stylesheets.
But if you want to be ahead of the game, on the w3schools site, read the html tutorial along with the html5 section, html5 is newer
There's also a section on using div's, and info on inline stlyesheets (like the example Kami gave)

Don't worry, your not alone, i don't like div's either, especially for making tables, so i have a lot to learn.

[Tim Camara]

Here's the nebulous 'they': www.w3.org/.

[Ryan Roos]

As for the WYSIWYG editor we will need to discuss that.

It's not as simple as your request, which is why it doesn't exist already. Simply, adding the existing editor to the page would just place the BBCode on the page, which you've already noticed doesn't render. We would need to then process your BBCode into HTML. Which isn't the hardest thing to do, but this would all need to be built into the custom page itself. This gets very complex when combined with all the other widgets and the actual HTML.

Thank you for the idea.

[flyoffacliff]

Ryan Roos
Thanks for considering it.

everyone Else
This for helping me understand the code.


EDIT NOTE: By "everyone else", I was referring to ASE and Kami. I did intend to make the first Tag for Ryan since he said "Thank you for the idea.". I am reverting this edit because I really think it is a mistake

[Kami]

Dec 3, 2012 10:13:13 GMT -8 Tim Camara said:

Here's the nebulous 'they': www.w3.org/.

wow, there is a nebulous 'they'. i was just being flippant, but colour me impressed ;x