what's the best way to repeat HTML blocks on a page?

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9thwave Reply #1, 16 years, 2 months ago

Hi,

I have some formatted blocks of content on a page that i would like to repeat...like this:

<div class="container">
   <div class="left">
     <img src="image here" />
   </div>
   <div class="right">
      <h3>title here</h3>
      <p>description here</p>
  </div>
 <div class="separator"> </div>
</div>

So the above code would generate an image to the left and a title and description to the right. I need the ability to have this display multiple times on the page.
I have tried adding a template to TinyMCE but it doesn’t quite work correctly. I know i could have a separate resource for each one but I wondered if there was a way to do it all in one resource...and that is easy/fool proof to update.

Thanks for any help

Using EVO1.0.4 by the way.

J

www.9thwave.co.uk
WEB | DESIGN | PRINT

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samba Reply #2, 16 years, 2 months ago

Hi,
That’s an intriguing question. I’ve never much liked playing with TinyMCE’s innards. I would probably just use a chunk and repeat it. Boring, and somewhat manual, but would require little coding.

Gee, following that idea, you could have chunks named chunk1, chunk4, chunk8, or whatever, each of those having a certain number of repetitions of the code block.

Someone else may have a better, slicker idea.

Cheers, Dave

MODx and Wordpress development
Linux, PHP 5.2, MySQL 5.0, Evo 1.05, Revo 2.08-pl, Firefox 4

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9thwave Reply #3, 16 years, 2 months ago

Hi
Thanks for your response.
I have added Table Controls to Tiny and think that might be the best way to go for now...well i can’t actually think of another way.
I’d be interested to hear how others have this scenario working though.

Just in case anyone wants to know how to add table controls to Tiny.
I chose ’Custom’ from the dropdown in Configuration and added ’table’ to the ’Custom Plugins’ section and then added ’tablecontrols’ in the 3rd row.

Cheers

J

www.9thwave.co.uk
WEB | DESIGN | PRINT