2 style questions

[divillysausages]

hi all,

i've two questions on the use of contribute with styles:

1: Whenever i type text into the editor and hit enter to create a new
paragraph, contribute adds a 'style="margin-bottom: 0"' or something similar
inline style to the tag. how do i turn this off? i've already set the
appearance of how paragraphs look using the site css and this ruins it, aside
from being untidy. also, i'm using a print.css to control how the document
looks when it's printed, and this overrides my settings. unless i manually go
into the code and remove these declarations i can't override them and thus keep
the site design seperate. the site is for a client so i need to be able to show
her how to do this, as there's no point spending acres of time making a site's
content and presentation seperate and accessible, only for contribute to ruin
it by adding unnecessary code

2: is there any way to add an id or a class to an object? classes i think can
be added by selecting the object and selecting the relevant style from the
dropdown menu, but what about id's?

thanks

[Kevin]

This is due to some of your administration settings. Depending on which
version of Contribute you have (2 or 3), you'll need to change the
paragraph spacing for your site.

Rather than "One line, as in standard word processor", you want "Two
lines, as in web page editors".

Look in Contribute help, under "paragraph spacing".

[From the help file]

To set page-editing settings:

1. Open the Edit Role Name Settings dialog box, if it’s not already
open. (See Editing a role’s settings.)

2. Click the Editing category on the left side of the dialog box.

The Paragraph spacing section lets you specify how Contribute applies
HTML paragraph tags, which determines whether blank lines appear between
paragraphs as a user types.


Hope this helps.

- Kevin



divillysausages wrote:

> hi all,
>
> i've two questions on the use of contribute with styles:
>
> 1: Whenever i type text into the editor and hit enter to create a new
> paragraph, contribute adds a 'style="margin-bottom: 0"' or something similar
> inline style to the tag. how do i turn this off? i've already set the
> appearance of how paragraphs look using the site css and this ruins it, aside
> from being untidy. also, i'm using a print.css to control how the document
> looks when it's printed, and this overrides my settings. unless i manually go
> into the code and remove these declarations i can't override them and thus keep
> the site design seperate. the site is for a client so i need to be able to show
> her how to do this, as there's no point spending acres of time making a site's
> content and presentation seperate and accessible, only for contribute to ruin
> it by adding unnecessary code
>
> 2: is there any way to add an id or a class to an object? classes i think can
> be added by selecting the object and selecting the relevant style from the
> dropdown menu, but what about id's?
>
> thanks
>

[divillysausages]

thanks for that kevin, that seems to have solved the 'margin-bottom:0' problem, although i thought i already had that setting enabled. Anyway, do you know anything about my second question?