Comments on: Concrete5 – Using TinyMCE Templates

By: Remo Laubacher

Remo Laubacher — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:37:32 +0000

The second piece, the HTML code, belongs in the files specified in the configuration. E.g. themes/yourTheme/templates/2_columns.html

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:22:38 +0000

Hi,

Just started using C5 on a new site, I like the idea of TinyMCE templates, however not sure where you add the second piece of code etc I have tried copying all into the custom HTML editor as described but I dont get the full functionality ie no text editor, a comment further up the blog suggested changing the code, so not sure best way forward.

Regards Adrian

By: Remo Laubacher

Remo Laubacher — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 06:48:16 +0000

Not sure I get what you mean but if there’s a difference between the preview in TinyMCE and the final page, it must be related to typography.css. It might be caused because it’s not included in the final page but beside that I can’t help you without have more information.

By: Nate

Nate — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:58:44 +0000

I’m talking about when it spits it out into the final page, not how it previews in the TinyMCE editor. It seems that my templates are only using PART of the CSS for some inexplicable reason, probably having something to do with the fact that the templates are within a templates folder, I would guess.

By: Remo Laubacher

Remo Laubacher — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:36:31 +0000

Nate, you can’t, TinyMCE pulls typography.css from your theme and not main.css. This is intentional because it allows you to control the different CSS rules a bit better. You could override the property “content_css” but I’m not sure how well this works. I usually put everything I need for the templates in typography.css!

By: Nate

Nate — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:34:03 +0000

Question: how can I get these templates to use the CSS in my main style sheet? I broke apart some of my template and turned them into TinyMCE templates and now they are not recognizing all the CSS… for instance, the UL I’m using doesn’t show the custom list-style-type image arrows even though the div still has the same ID.

By: Nate

Nate — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:29:19 +0000

and wow, thanks for your quick response!

By: Nate

Nate — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:28:45 +0000

Bleh, right after I posted that, I just copied your code directly (as opposed to the code I got working on my previous site) and pasted it in. That fixed everything except the missing template. Changed the paths and voila, it works. Really weird that I couldn’t just pick up my previous code and change the paths… so please never take this down. Somehow, magically, your code from this page alone works. Both times I’ve had problems, I solved them by copying the exact code above, pasting it in and then changing the paths.

It seems C5 adds some additional commentary at the end of the code once you save it and perhaps leaving this in there has been my problem each time. I don’t know.

By: Remo Laubacher

Remo Laubacher — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:21:45 +0000

Nate, are you sure you’ve added the keyword “template” to the “theme_concrete_buttons1″ property?

By: Nate

Nate — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:20:06 +0000

I have no idea, man. I’m trying to get this to work on a new site and it’s not working at all. In fact, the TInyMCE is showing nothing but a tiny little box; no tools, nothing.