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Hi Chris,
Sorry for the delay in responding.
More than likely, you are more familiar with the conventional way that a static HTML page works — where the text and layout are commingled.
Modern Content Management System (CMS), like Joomla, is based on a different concept. It is based on the idea that the content creator may not know anything about scripting (webdesign, layout, CSS, etc.) By the same token, it has been taken into account that the computer whiz may never win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Modern CMS, taking both issues into account, have therefore separated the layout component of a website from the content developers — the latter are likely to mess up HTML mark ups, if they are left to their own devices — that is the reason for the development of what are called “What You See is What You Get” (WYSIWYG) editors.
And they give you the “idiot box”, more known as the “Edit box”, meant for a kindergarten level of technical expertise. Think of it this way, the box tells you where to
place the title.
place the intro text and main text
where to place the author, etc.which is far from the layout of what you actually view in any site. That is determined by the script together with the CSS. In the case you are asking, it is a matter of tweaking the CSS.
More important, in any interactive site, it is very very very dangerous to allow the content provider to introduce any scripting. A malicious contributor, who knows his scripting, can access any information in your database — including passwords stored by exploiting the vulnerability of PHP scripting, for example. The latter being the scripting of choice by most CMS — including open source, like Joomla.
So, how does a modern CMS deal with this potential security breach? It will attempt to ignore any html markups especially those that appear in the intro pages. In the full article, it will not allow certain characters that are know to trigger an error. Because once you get an error, a malicious hacker can use that to get an idea of the architecture of the database, to get in. At least that is what books told me, on scripts security.
For example, any paragraph mark ups are ignored in the Homepage layout. I think that is the case also with the markup if you introduced it manually:
<em>@questbg 64968 wrote:</em><blockquote>…I have 14 pixels horizontal space applied to the image</blockquote>
The way to change it properly is to change the CSS, just like the way Menalto taught you to change the spacing for your banners.
To do this, you have to do a View Page Source — from your browser (not the back end) to find the actual nested divs that surround the image. Find the css, most likely the template.css, and locate the div class of the nested divs.
I provided a general tutorial on this in another post of yours.
I hope this helps.
Cornelio
<em>@questbg 64968 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi Cornelio
I actually replaced a BR with a DIV /DIV yesterday, it worked fine. I would say this is a good option too.
Another really strange instance of this earlier today. I was working in Joom!Fish, translating an article into Russian. When I published the article ALL the text disappeared, I only got the image. I took out the one BR I found in the HTML. This made no difference. In the end, I had to take out an Italic command!! Not that is strange, seems it doesn’t like Italic commands either!
This is the entire problem! As you can see, here is the HTML as setup in the Article Editor and I have 14 pixels horizontal space applied to the image:
Unfortunately, when I publish the article, the horizontal space is gone and images touches text:
Which is reflected in the Page Source, viewed in Firefox:
So, my real question here is why, from 14 pixels in the Editor, it somehow changes back to zero pixels space in the browser?
This is not only bloody annoying, it makes the page look bad.
Any assistance in finding a fix for this one would be greatly appreciated!!
Cheers
Chris</blockquote>
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