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#1 2005-10-28 19:25:06
- minusf
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- Registered: 2005-02-15
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let me customize txp:body and txp:excerpt
the pop up help file says:
<blockquote>
Body
The body of the article. Note that the body of articles processed with Textile will already have <p> tags around each paragraph. Thus it is superfluous to use additional paragraph tags.
</blockquote>
(the same with txp:excercpt)
i realize this is documented and intentional. but i don’t understand this design choice.
if at least the tag took a class argument or something. but it just stubornly puts the
p tags around it.
i have seen people suggesting to put txp:body inside div’s.
for my design this is not working. (the div spans the whole page width while
my p is has a great left margin)
i find it logical to define the plain p the way the majority of my p’s in the article
should look like. but txp:body’s stubornness makes this difficult.
e.g. the news almost always looks diferent, because it’s different content.
but it still needs to showed using txp:body, obviously.
so as i see it, my only choice at the moment is change the plain p to fit the news
section, and change all the others and use the <tt>p(class).</tt> (because that
can be customizes) in front of every single paragraph in my articles.
this much more work to do.
for me, it boils down to this:
i think that it is much easier to add something to the forms then to override
something the txp tags put there by themselves, therefore i would like to suggest
that txp:body and txp:excerpt not to output p tags.
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#2 2005-10-28 22:17:08
- zem
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#3 2005-10-29 01:23:11
- minusf
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Re: let me customize txp:body and txp:excerpt
ok ;-)
i have read the answer and it is not precisely what i am looking for.
but.
it cleared up a very important issue between me and txp.
a very philosophical moment i must say, and for that i thank you.
i consider this thread closed because i would now form the question
in a very different way – and by that i probably wouldn’t ask it.
(if you find yourself saying “huh?”, just ignore me, it’s 0322 here ;)
Last edited by minusf (2005-10-29 18:56:08)
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