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#1 2010-05-25 18:34:49

Mobilizing Mouse

Member

From: Vancouver, BC, Canada

Registered: 2010-05-23

Posts: 22

Editing previous posts in html...

…so I can change headings, make bold etc

If I view the post in html and try to change it ie <h2> instead of <p> and so on, the screen automatically reverts to the ‘text’ view, where I don’t seem to have control over formatting of any sort

Am I missing a button or setting?

Or do I have to take the post out of Textpattern, redo the html and then paste it as text into the post?

Just getting started with Textpattern, transferring from MT

Thanks!

Take care

Stephen

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‘I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.’
John Cage

#2 2010-05-25 18:42:52

els

Moderator

From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2004-06-06

Posts: 7,458

Re: Editing previous posts in html...

That is Textile formatting your articles :) If you prefer to write the html yourself, you can turn it off, either site wide in Admin > Preferences, or on a per article basis (under Advanced options in the ‘Write’ screen).
Here is the Textile manual.

#3 2010-05-25 21:07:09

Mobilizing Mouse

Member

From: Vancouver, BC, Canada

Registered: 2010-05-23

Posts: 22

Re: Editing previous posts in html...

Els,

Thanks for the quick response

I tried using ‘leave text untouched’ with an article I’m playing with

In html mode it simply removes all visible tags ‘<p></p>’ etc, and if I try to add them myself again I’m sent back to ‘Text’ mode

If I enter them in text mode then they have no effect

I’m still unable to add or alter html tags

Any ideas or I am I missing something else?

Thanks!

Stephen

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‘I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.’
John Cage

#4 2010-05-25 23:21:06

els

Moderator

From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2004-06-06

Posts: 7,458

Re: Editing previous posts in html...

You can only edit in the ‘text’ area. The other two tabs are only previews. If you change the advanced option and add html tags to the article body, you need to save the article before it takes effect. The article body is saved in the database twice: as ‘body’ (what you entered in the write screen) and ‘body_html’ (which is the html version if you used Textile). ‘body_html’ won’t change until you re-save the article.

#5 2010-05-27 14:24:08

Mobilizing Mouse

Member

From: Vancouver, BC, Canada

Registered: 2010-05-23

Posts: 22

Re: Editing previous posts in html...

Thanks for that Els

I am now seeing the changes to the html that I am making by hand

Take care

Stephen

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‘I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.’
John Cage