How to style Joomla 2.5 article's intro text? - joomla

It's very strange but I haven't found a really good solution by googling joomla style intro text.
I want that the current output:
<div class="item-content">
<p>Intro Text</p>
<p>Full Text</p>
</div>
to be replaced by:
<div class="item-content">
<div class="introtext"><p>Intro Text</p></div>
<div class="fulltext"><p>Full Text</p></div>
</div>
I was sure that Joomla itself should have declared such a class for introtext or at least should have a configurable option for that.
What I do NOT want:
A Joomla 1.x or Joomla 1.5 solution
A manual way until there is not
an extension-base solution (which is more more strange!)
UPDATE after {THIS} answer
Now I have a problem with $this->item->introtext, $this->item->fulltext and $this->item->text.
I expect $this->item->introtext to show ONLY introtext, but it also contains the contents AFTER READ MORE.
What property should I use to only include contents BEFORE READ MORE, not anything else?
I don't expect that the $this->item->introtext content be affected by Show Intro Text parameter in article options. It is expected that only $this->item->text cares about it. Am I right?
Note: $this->item->fulltext works as expected and outputs only the contents AFTER the READ MORE.
In case of disabling Show Intro Text parameter in article options, all of the 3 variables, return the text after READ MORE. This should really be considered as a bug.
It would be more wisely to have a variable to return only intro text (in any situation), a variable to return only full text (in any situation), and a variable to include/exclude introtext according to the article parameter: Show Intro Text

All you need to do is add a template override. You need to make a copy of this file:
/JOOMLA INSTALL/components/com_content/views/article/tmpl/default.php
Make any changes to the code that you want, then upload it here:
/JOOMLA INSTALL/templates/flexibility/html/com_content/article/default.php
Simple as that.

In Joomla 3.3.0 it just works as you expected:
<div id="introtext"><?php echo$this->item->introtext; ?></div>
<div id="fulltext"><?php echo $this->item->fulltext; ?></div>
(in templates/your_template_name/html/com_content/article/default.php)

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Custom sections Umbraco

Not even sure I labeled this correctly, I am in the process of converting a site to Umbraco, and there are sections of the site that needs to be edited using the CMS tools in the back end, basically it is a grid with pictures and description text
Here is a sample of the HTML
<div class="hi-icon-effect-1 hi-icon-effect-1a">
<a class="hi-icon">
<img class="img-responsive " id="ImgSales" src="../../Images/sales_icon_circle_grey.png" alt="">
</a>
<p style="padding-left:5px;" id="lblSales" class="">Sales</p>
</div>
What I would like to be able to do is go to the content section of the admin and edit the list of items and configure the image and text for each item.
http://www2.strikemedia.co.za/
If you view the above link and scroll down there will be a grid of items (services) and it is this list that I want to be able to generate.
I am comfortable with all the technologies used in Umbraco, I just do not know the system well enough to do these kinds of modifications, can someone please assist or point me to the resources that will help me build this.
Thanks
You should take a look at the Archetype package: https://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/archetype/
As far as I understand your question you are looking for a way to add X amount of similar items to the contents of a page - for this, Archetype is probably perfect :-)
Once you have your list of items added inside Umbraco, look here: https://github.com/kgiszewski/ArchetypeManual/blob/master/03%20-%20Template%20Usage.md
Use case #1 in this example will allow you to iterate through items and output it with whatever "template" you want (aka the HTML sample you provided).

CKEditor is modifying my HTML source - and not for the better. Any way to prevent this?

I realize there are many questions about CKEditor modifying HTML source. But none of the suggestions appear to work.
In particular, the most general suggested change:
config.allowedContent = true;
seems to help quite a bit, but a lot still gets changed.
For example, the following HTML entered in SOURCE mode gets modified.
Original:
<p><a name="top"></p>
<p>Over the course of its 2 phases the ACCRA programme has co-authored and published a large collection of reports, case studies, evaluations and working papers. These are all available to download for free here.<br>
Our resources are categorised as follows: General Programme Information | Research reports | Country case studies | Phase 1 Evaluation | Working papers| Publications in Portuguese</p>
Turns into this:
<div> </div>
<p><a name="top"></a></p>
<p><a name="top"> </a></p>
<p><a name="top">Over the course of its 2 phases the ACCRA programme has co-authored and published a large collection of reports, case studies, evaluations and working papers. These are all available to download for free here.<br>
Our resources are categorised as follows: </a>General Programme Information | Research reports | Country case studies | Phase 1 Evaluation | Working papers| Publications in Portuguese</p>
Duplicated lines and even spaces are added.
Another example:
Original:
<div style="clear: both"></div>
<p></p>
<p></p>
Becomes this:
<div style="clear: both"> </div>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
I could go on, but you get the point.
The changed source gets rendered differently from the original. For example, rows of publications which were nicely aligned get slightly misaligned if opened and then saved in the CKEditor.
Is there a way of telling CKEditor to please leave my valid HTML source as is?
The option config.allowedContent = true; should do the trick for leaving your VALID html code intact.
But in the case that there is no valid html code it will try to correct it in order to show it correctly (that is because CKEditor is not a code writing tool but a WYSIWYG tool).
In your first example your html is not valid (<p><a name="top"></p>). The <a> tag should have a corresponding </a> end tag.
In your second example you can disable the automatic fillup of empty tags with the using the option:
config.fillEmptyBlocks = false;

CKEDITOR's source code mode scrambles custom template code

I'm trying to allow custom "template code" within the source code editor. My code snippets would always look like {* anything here *}. It mostly works, but if used inside an HTML tag things gets scrambled.
I'm already using allowedContent: true, when starting CKEDITOR.
Example:
<p style="{* some "short code" of mine... *}">Text</p>
turns into
<p style="{* some " short="" code"="" of="" mine...="" *}"="">Text</p>
And
<p {* tet_pos_is_inside *}>Fuss</p>
into
<p {*="" tet_pos_is_inside="" *}="">Fuss</p>
Any advise ?
Thanks,
Sebastian
My advise would be to never use them inside tags, it sounds like a nightmare to configure. What is the requirement you are trying to fill with those?
You could go around this issue with pre- and post processing using classes, data attributes and/or custom attributes. For example you could use something like his:
<p class="tet_pos_is_inside_val-12345 foo-val-12345">I love horses</p>
<p data-tet_pos_is_inside="12345" data-foo="">I love bunnies</p>
<p tet_pos_is_inside="12345" foo="">I love cats</p>
Well,
apparently there was a simple solution to solve my current problem:
<p style="{* some 'short code' of mine... *}">Text</p>
works ! Note the use of singe-quotes inside the double quotes.
IOW, as long as there is a <tag attr="val"> then val can be anything except containing more double quotes.
Thanks for the comments.

How to add an additional article info on sidebar in Joomla 1.5?

I want a sidebar on article page, with additional info. Is there such a solution for Joomla 1.5.
I mean that I add an article and the info is pulled from my text between the tags e.g.
{info_for-sidebar}
Lorem ipsum....
{/info_for-sidebar}
And this info shows in sidebar for current article with actual info.
Is this possible?
Setting up something like what you are asking for require some sort of workarounds.
First, lets agree that what you are calling a "sidebar" is nothing but a content... You enter that content as a part of your article.
So, to achieve what you are asking for I would recommend you use what is called CCK - Content Construction Kit - extension for Joomla using Form2Content. There's a free light edition that would be enough.
Form2Content let you setup a content type. You define what fields you want for each content. Then you create a template that will use the info you are going to enter on the fields to built an article layout.
So let's say you are going to create 3 fields like this :
1- Intro text
2- Full text
3- Sidebar
You are going to create a template as we said. each content type will have 2 templates an intro text template and a full text template
The full text template shall be like this :
<div class="content-container">
<div class="content-sidebar">{$SIDEBAR}</div>
<div class="content-fulltext">{$FULLTEXT}</div>
<br clear="both" />
</div>
The {$SIDEBAR} and {$FULLTEXT} are the text you entered in the form and Form2Content will use it to create a regular content with layout.
If you don't want to use another extension or that solution looks too complicated, you could use a javascript solution. For example you could create an HTML module in Joomla and assign its to the sidebar. On this module switch the view to HTML code and enter this:
<div class="content-sidebar"></div>
When you enter an article, switch the view to HTML code and enter the text you want to show on the sidebar and add a class to the paragraph or the div like this :
<p class="special-content">Lorem ipsum dolor<p>
Then use jQuery to append this special text to the sidebar like this :
jQuery(".content-sidebar").append(".special-content");
Note: Joomla does not load jQuery by default, you have to add it on your template or use a plugin.

Blogger template: Style blog post based on label

I'm trying to change the style of a blog post (for instance change the title color), based on the labels associated to the post.
I'm a bit new to the templating, so I though I would be going to add a class with the label in the title <h3> element, and then add my CSS rules.
So I found this which would generate a proper list of labels separated by a space:
<b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'><data:label.name/> </b:loop>
However, it seems the validator does not let me add this inside the class attribute as follow:
<h3 class='post-title entry-title <b:loop values="data:post.labels" var="label"><data:label.name/> </b:loop>'>
From there, I found half the solution. Apparently, I should use expr:class instead of class as follow:
<h3 expr:class='"post-title entry-title " + data:list_of_labels'>
So now:
- How can I build this variable data:list_of_labels? (basically how to set a variable)
- Is there a full description of the template syntax somewhere?
- Is there another way to go around this?
Thanks,
JB
This should do it. Using XML entities allows you bypass the XML validation and move the Blogger functions to where you need them. Longer explanation here: http://www.karlhorky.com/2012/06/add-blogger-labels-to-post-as-css.html
<div class="post<b:if cond="data:post.labels"><b:loop values="data:post.labels" var="label"> <data:label.name></data:label.name></b:loop></b:if>">
<data:post.body>
</div>
There is no way to set variables in the blogger data xml, however you can set variables using javascript.
There are many pages on the blogger data xml. Google is your friend. For example this one.
You are on the right track: do a loop, use javascript to check for the combinations you want, change the style properties or load a css file dynamically.

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