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Modifying HTML Editor Styles and Font Dropdowns

Thread began 11/04/2019 2:50 pm by BillHobbs | Last modified 11/28/2019 11:35 am by Ray Borduin | 686 views | 8 replies |

BillHobbs

Modifying HTML Editor Styles and Font Dropdowns

In the latest HTML Editor is there a tutorial on how to change the dropdown values for the Styles and Font values? I want to have custom values for each of these dropdowns. I would like it consistent across the whole website so that they all have the same dropdown.

Also, I'd like to make the session longer than the default login time. Like a day instead of a few minutes.

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

There is a UI for adding styles that is part of the HTML Editor interface. Just click the edit button next to the Styles List dropdown to define your own.

It will edit the styles.js file that is in your webassist/ckeditor folder. It will be shared and can be edited manually as well. The file is fairly well documented if you want to open it up and give it a shot.

To edit the fonts you would have to manually edit your config.js file in the same folder. You can add fonts using this sytnax in the config function that is already defined:

config.font_names =
'Arial/Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;' +
'Times New Roman/Times New Roman, Times, serif;' +
'Verdana';



The name of the font that appears in the list is before the slash and the actual value added the code is after.

Changing the session timeout can be done by updating your php.ini file. The two settings that are important for that are:

session.cookie_lifetime
session.gc_maxlifetime
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BillHobbs

Thanks Ray i'll try this.

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BillHobbs

Okay I got the Styles and Font list to show what I want, but there are a couple of problems.

1. This code in the styles.js file doesn't show up: { name: 'Square Bulleted List', element: 'ul', styles: { 'list-style-type': 'square' } },

2. When I select a font from the dropdown it isn't displaying the font selected. Do I need to add a style sheet and if I do, is it added to the page header or is there another way of adding the font styles to the WYSIWYG?

I've attached the two files.

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config.js
styles.js
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Ray BorduinWebAssist

Do the other styles work?

It may be a limitation in styles and UL elements. Are you using the latest version of CKEditor? I found this in a google search:

https://ckeditor.com/old/forums/CKEditor-3.x/Add-Style-Unordered-List


The full documentation on editing styles is here:
https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor4/latest/guide/dev_howtos_styles.html

If you send me a url and ftp access to your site then I could take a look and see what I can find.

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BillHobbs

I'm still having an issue with the dropdown displaying the fonts. I've sent the logins you requested in the private message. Thanks.

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

To get the fonts to display, you have to add the font definitions to the webassist/ckeditor/contents.css file.

I've add the last three to the list you can find it on lines 208-219

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BillHobbs

-- Disregard This-- I figured out what the problem was. It was the fonts themselves that were the problem. Of course I chose two fonts to test that wouldn't work. Most of the others worked fine. --




t've got the fonts dropdown to show the font and it attaches the proper css code around the text. Now the problem is some fonts show up correctly on the pages that display the HTML Editors source code and some don't. The fonts display correctly on the admin page that has the HTML Editor on all three browsers, but not on pages that display the HTML Editor content.

The fonts displays correctly on the pages using Safari, but not on Chrome and Firefox. I assume it's a browser issue reading the CSS styles.

Here is what I am using:

HTML Editor coded text:
<span style="font-family:Pixie;"><span style="font-size:28px;">Body Text</span></span>

contents.css:
@font-face {
font-family: Pixie;
src: url(../../fonts/Pixie.ttf);
}

fonts.css -- this is linked to the page that displays the HTML Editor content.
@font-face {
font-family: 'Pixie';
src: url('fonts/Pixie.eot');
src: url('fonts/Pixie.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('fonts/Pixie.woff') format('woff'),
url('fonts/Pixie.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('fonts/Pixie.svg#Pixie') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}

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anonymous

Thanks for the information Ray!

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