URL to your eFiction: http://www.imrightbehindyou.com/browse.php?type=recent
Version of eFiction: 3.5.5
Have you bridged eFiction, if so with what?: No
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Hi everyone,
Just a few things I would love some help with.
1. I have a weird issue happening. When the index, or recent, pages are displayed, the stories are showing their summaries with a paragraph space before and after.
It shows as:
Summary:
A terrifying, but true story I experienced when I was 12.
It should show as:
Summary: A terrifying, but true story I experienced when I was 12.
http://imrightbehindyou.com/browse.php?type=recent
I noticed that it occasionally does this only old site, but this new one does it for all of stories added. I haven't altered anything in the site coding that has anything to do with the indexes.
2. The second issue is that stories copied/pasted into the submission form appear as light grey when it is submitted. Even if it was copied from a site that had the text in white. It's doing it to the Summary, Notes, and the story itself. I am currently having to copy/paste the text into Notepad to take out the formatting before I can paste into the site. I have checked the style.css and I can't even spot where there is a code for a light grey text. It's really odd...
Link: http://imrightbehindyou.com/viewstory.php?sid=5&chapter=1
3. How do I change it so that when the link is clicked on, it goes right to the story, not the chapter index? I had a look through the site Admin areas, but can't spot how to change it.
Appreciate any help you can give me. It's brand new site and I can't open to the public till I can get these sorted. Thank you so much!
Nobody can help me with these? :down:
Hey there, I'm not sure I'll be a lot of help, but I'll have a dash...
The first problem: are you using a visual editor when you're adding the story details? I seem to recall that when I was trying to create a theme for eFiction, I found that if I entered the information in the "naked" mode it appeared one way (my desired format), but if I used the visual editor, it added unwanted formatting. (the bad news is I couldn't resolve it without re-coding bits of the program).
Which leads me to the second issue, which I think may be related to the first. If you're pasting from Word (or similar) and using the visual editor in eFiction, it could be bringing in the formatting from the original document.
I noticed that you story paragraphs, which should just have a <p> in the code to denote a paragraph (and pick up the required style from the theme's stylesheet - as the Disclaimer paragraph does), actually has the follow formatting in the p code
<p style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.42857142857143em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; margin: 0.357142857142857em 0px; padding: 0px;">
So, my advice would be try without the visual editor or, try converting your story to plain text and try uploading that.
Does that help?
