Re: [libreoffice-website] Silverstripe: Tables not inserting

2011.01.27 00:50, Michael Wheatland rašė:
> While trying to structure the content for the Apple Mac installation
> instructions I have been trying to develop a layout that works well
> with the large number of images and small quantity of text.
> To do this I was going to use tables.
>
> Problem: The WYSIWYG editor on Silverstripe is not inserting the
> table. The table insert dialogue comes up ok, but when I click insert
> nothing happens.

Dropping the editor part, I don't think a table is semantically the best 
thing to use for that. Let's say your text is split into paragraphs and 
some paragraphs are illustrated by images. In this case, here's what you 
could do for that to look right:
1) put the image in the very beginning of each paragraph, float it 
right, and add a left margin of say 20px
2) for each paragraph that you want to fall below any images in the 
previous paragraphs, add a clear:right style attribute

I understand that it's perhaps not possible to achieve easily through 
the WYSIWYG editor (without manually editing HTML code), but even 
changing it wouldn't help much. And don't be too optimistic – they all 
have their cons and pros. The reason why I think Christian refuses to 
even discuss changing the WYSIWYG editor in use is because most CMS'es 
tune the editor they supply by default to achieve greater integration 
with it. Christian has repeatedly stated that there's a requirement to 
easily link to other pages within the same website, and this is the 
reason why he's reluctant.

One way to make adding nicely styled images easier I think would be to 
simply specify a few base classes in the CSS (or maybe they are already 
specified?). E.g., there could be a class that floats right and adds a 
left margin, and a second class which clears right.

HTH
Rimas


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