Features / Usability

Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee 15 Jun 2007 03:17 GMT-0000 posts: 4668

I'm not really sure why you see clutter when editing your pages. It seems to me if you edit using Quicktags, you just see the Quicktags, not the HTML they produce. I mean that's the way the default ones work. Also, I'm wondering why the xmp tag. But anyway, a simple way to get rid of the inline style properties is to use the DIV plugin with a class parameter like

{DIV(class=>newbox)}Some text{DIV}

and then put all the styling in the theme's CSS file like

div.newbox {
position: relative;
text-align: left;
padding: 5px;
background-color: white;
width: 90%;
border: 1px #000000 solid;
}

The DIV plugin code isn't as compact as a Quicktag, but it's much easier to implement and is more flexible.

-- Gary - themes.tw.o

Posted by Rick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties 15 Jun 2007 17:04 GMT-0000 posts: 3665

I think what you're asking is to expand the Tiki wiki syntax. This might be tough, but you can easily create custom wiki plugins that will do whatever you need.

For example here is a quick plugin I created that will create your custom box. Usage is:

{MYBOX()}text for the box goes here{MYBOX}

HTH,

-Rick

> Hi folks. I'm wondering how I might go about adding new tags to Tiki, such as the ^ or ! tags? So far I've been creating Quicktags using straight HTML, but it's leading to horribly cluttered looking pages when I go to edit.
>
> For example, I'd like to replace the following:
>
> > > > > Some text > > > >
>
> with something as simple as: ~box~ Some text ~/box~
>
> Can anyone explain how I can do this?

Posted by Zero 22 Jun 2007 22:12 GMT-0000 posts: 101

Hi again. I finally had a chance to start working on this issue and I'm still having troubles with it. Following the instructions from the Plugin Doc's Page as well as from Rick's example above, I'm unable to get the plugin to work. When I place the plugin code in my Tiki page, the contained text simply does not appear.

Here's what I've done:

1 - Created my plugin code (as previous example). I've attached the file below...

2 - Named my file wikiplugin_subbox.php

3 - Uploaded the file to lib\wiki-plugins

4 - Included the following in my Tiki page:

{SUBBOX()}just testing {/SUBBOX}