Formatting Wiki Pages #howtoguide #wiki
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On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 12:27 am, DC_Michael_1981 wrote:
I found a Universal .css file that has the classes you can use to format your wiki pages. It is now available in files as bootstrap.min.css, for those of you who know css. You cannot edit the css source but you van use what's listed.Resurrecting an old thread...is?this style sheet still in use? Does anyone have it in a human-readable form...one with line breaks and such inserted so I can actually use it? In my experience the wiki page editor refuses to recognize {float:right} and many other such "radical" constructs. If we can't use inline styles the least that could be done is to provide a copy of the sheets that we can use. Thanks, Bruce |
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On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 03:52 am, Tony Moody wrote:
You could maybe get a straight version from Bootstrap v3.3.6 (http://getbootstrap.com)You'd think so, but no luck. So I took the existing file and cleaned it up with the Brackets editor, then ran it thru my hex editor to replace all the Unix line terminations with CRLF. It now resides in the GMF files area alongside the original. Regards, Bruce |
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On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 06:26 PM, JMichaelTX wrote:
Thanks for sharing this file. I've got your file, but how do I use it / apply it to my groups.io sub-group wiki?You should probably read that entire thread. When I use the raw html editor and save my work, groups.io strips many inline style definitions that I feel are totally benign. Rumor has it that groups.io itself is using this style sheet, so try applying some of the style definitions in that file to your own html and see if they work in your wiki. I personally never got around to that and am intrigued to hear your results. Regards, Bruce? -- The system Help is your friend.??/static/help |
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JMichaelTX,
Thanks for your reply. I have read, and re-read, that (this) threadThe CSS file (or a version of it) is already applied to every page on site. The work-around discussed is using those definitions to achieve desired effects when editing HTML entities in Source Code mode (a feature of the HTML composition boxes). I am using Markdown, so that may limit my choices. Any suggestions?Probably. I don't imagine Markdown composition offers an equivalent feature - it would almost have to be an edit feature of the preview window. Is this a groups.io bug that should be reported?The inability to reference those CSS definitions in Markdown isn't a bug; maybe a limitation but that probably wouldn't be the right way to address limitations of the available formatting in Markdown. Your original complaint in #12509 about the missing borders and gaps in the rendered Markdown output may be a bug. I think I'd report it to [email protected] as one. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 01:10 PM, JMichaelTX wrote:
Markdown is not a native browser language, so at some point it's being converted to html for display. You can see the html by using the "view source" (or similar menu selection) in your browser while viewing your wiki after you're done with composition. In principle, it should then be possible to extract that html, apply some of the the styles to your tags, and save it back via the editor. Having said all that, if you're not fairly proficient with html then none of this bootstrap.css stuff is likely to make sense anyway. I agree with Shal that it wouldn't hurt to report your original problem to support; however, I didn't see anything in to suggest that table cell borders are a supported markdown feature. My recommendation would be to open the wiki file in the html editor. Switch to html in your preferences, open the editor, then click on the far right icon (looks like three bars) then again on the far right icon (looks like <>). This will display the html source. Look for the tag with the TABLE attribute. Immediately after TABLE, insert border="1" cellpadding="5" width="100%", then save.? These are deprecated html constructs, but if the groups.io editor doesn't strip them, they should give you what you want. Good luck, Bruce? -- The system Help is your friend.??/static/help |
Bruce Bowman
Shal Farley