I’m using Telline ll template and want to add in a wedding and enagegment section right inside my content article. The top half of the article will have a general write-up and then the bottom half with will have Columns across the width of the article space.
Each picture, (200 pixels wide) will be inside the column and overall height of column will be about 350 pixels high. It will have text under the picture for the wedding couple annoucments. See attached screen shot. I’ve tried to use “insert table” and do it that way however I was having a hard time getting the picture to display at the “very top” inside the coloum.I could be doing something wrong as I’ve never attempted this before.
I’m looking to have a thin grey line to match the rest of my site template that seperates each column. Something like you would see in the newspaper section for weddings and engagements.
Does anyone know of how best to create this? I have Tiny MCE editor and tried using the “insert table” however not sure if this is the best method to set up my article! :confused:
While it is not the best method it is the easiest for a single article. You could write some custom css to layout your article but that will take a bit more effort.
What usually happend is that TinyMCE insers some <p> or   tage in your code. You need to edit the html of the article in the editor and remove those.
If you struggle to do that complete your article as best you can then click on the html button in your editor. Copy the copy and paste it here and I will tidy it up for you so you can see how it is done.
Thanks so much for your suggestion! Are you saying that I was doing it correctly by using the “insert table”? If so, than I can clean it up a bit more by your suggestion. I don’t enough about modifing CSS for inside an article (I wish I did) however I’m just looking to create columns in just this one article of the website.
Also, do you think that JCE editor might be better for something like this? Maybe they have that built in? I’m just wondering the best method for this as I just need it done in the wedding section article.
Yeah, that is probably the easiest way to do it for one article..
Stick with whatever editor you feel most comfortable with but switch of its setting to clean up code.
There may be another way and that is to create a new blog style menu item. Change the settings for the lead items to 0 and 2 colums. Then publish 2 articles in that section with one for each colum but that depends on the template you are using as how it would look.
It should work, you may need to switch off show title etc for those articles. Give it a go. No need to create tables. Just insert your image at the top of each of the two articles and allign it in the centre.
sbaldwin;122480I was having a hard time getting the picture to display at the “very top” inside the coloum.
Add valign=”top” to your <tr> tag like <tr valign=”top”>
It’s hard to say if tables are the best method. DIV’s and CSS certainly used to be (that’s why you see so many Joomla templates advertised as 100% tableless) but I think opinion has changed on this a bit lately.
scotty 15 years, 8 months ago.
