There's a module to do this in Drupal land, but I've been frustrated with the hacks that've been necessary in Wygwam. What is the best way to go about implementing this in such a way that you don't need to totally override the default image handling in ChannelImages/Wygwam?
Assets is a good suggestion, but I believe Devdemon's channel images might be a better fit for the workflow you're suggesting.
http://www.devdemon.com/channel_images/
Clients can add (and see) a caption and more and it's fully integrated with Wygwam and other editors. Devdemon's support is also excellent.
The Assets module from Pixel & Tonic allows you to double-click on the image (or any other file) and add metadata. You then have access to the metadata in your templates.
Check the screenshot: http://pixelandtonic.com/assets
You can also add metadata using the native File Manager. Click the edit icon from the File Manager and you'll see a few fields. You can use the File Entries tag to access it.
http://expressionengine.com/user_guide/modules/file/file_tag.html
I typically use Matrix with one column for the image, one column for the caption, and if a link is needed another column for the link. This of course works best if the image is in a fixed location within your template.
On possible way to accomplish this that I have used is to run some jQuery that looks for images within a certain area, and if they have alt attributes, rewrite the image tag within a tag with a tag inside.
so:
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
$('#page-content > .wrapper img').each(function(){
if($(this).attr('alt') !== undefined && $(this).attr('alt').length > 0){
if(!$(this).parent().hasClass('content-image')){
$(this).replaceWith("<figure class='content-image "+$(this).attr('class')+"'>"+$($('<div></div>').html($(this).clone().attr('class',''))).html()+"<figcaption>"+$(this).attr('alt')+"</figcaption></figure>");
}
}
});
});
will do just that. It's looking within a #page-content div for img tags with alt attributes. And then rewriting it as
<figure><img src='....' .... /><figcaption>This is the text that was in the alt attribute</figcaption></figure>
Soooo, that kinda works. The only caveat is that you had better not use any double-quotes within your alt text, or it will break thangs. Not the cleanest of solutions, but a solution, nonetheless.
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I have just started my Typo3 journey. I want to put 2 content elements side-by-side (in one row). Can anyone tell how is it possible. Because whenever I place any content element, it is displayed as a block and fill the entire row.
Thank you for your time and consideration :)
You have to use container elements which come with the extension 'container'. Please have a look at https://extensions.typo3.org/extension/container
There is no build in solution for your problem.
But in TYPO3 you are free to build any kind of html structure for your output. This is necessary as you also can do any rendering of content. either with your own CSS and HTML-markup or if you use frameworks like Bootstrap.
You can build a new page layout, or any special content element which contains other content elements.
Changing layouts can (and should) be reflected in backend-layouts. (https://docs.typo3.org/m/typo3/reference-coreapi/11.5/en-us/ApiOverview/Backend/BackendLayout.html) (there are a lot of other tutorials)
But you also can build/ use individual defined containing content elements. Her you can get support by different extensions (eg. mask, DCE, gridelements) or define it completely on your own (https://docs.typo3.org/m/typo3/reference-coreapi/11.5/en-us/ApiOverview/ContentElements/Index.html)
I think it should be possible.
I want to make an extension that will add a specific meta text content on specific positions in the source file (depending on its content), but this content should be just visible to the user not inserted into the source of course.
Can someone point to the VSCode API which I should use for this?
I think I found it:
https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/vscode-api#TextEditor.setDecorations
This extensions also uses it:
https://github.com/wix/import-cost
I'd like to create a custom drag and drop template so I can increase the design possibilities without losing the functionality. I can't find anything in their documentation.
I was hoping to create something like this, not sure if I'm missing something obvious but I can't find a drag and drop that allows for the different coloured background with columns too.
I could use a block of code but I can't edit the css styles so it wouldn't be responsive for mobile and also not very friendly for those who don't know html.
Rather old question, but to who it might be helpfull:
If you code your own template and upload it to Mailchimp you lose the 'drag & drop' system/UX interface with the different blocks. You are able to create repeatable blocks but then it works with a dropdown list. This is (in my humble opinion) not that user friendly and takes a while before you fully understand how to use the dropdown. I had to explain it to a client earlier today and took a while before they understood it, so I decided to write them a manual for it.
But the design you want to create should be possible to make with a standard MC template. In the 'design' tab you will find settings to control background colors etc.
Still not possible, answer from the Mailchimp support: "At the moment, it's not currently possible to code a drag and drop template completely--one of our drag and drop template layouts will need to be selected, but you can drop in Code blocks to get a little more control over the styling of certain sections."
Though, if it's any help, it is possible to fully custom code your own template, and then add in mailchimps special Template language to the template to open up sections as editable within the campaign builder--or even duplicate certain sections of content. It's not quite the same as the drag drop templates, but adds similar functionality. More info on working with template language can be found here: https://mailchimp.com/help/getting-started-with-mailchimps-template-language/
I know this is an old question, but while searching for this myself I stumbled upon a solution posted here.
Basically it is possible to code your own drag n' drop template, but the solution has not been documented.
Find one of the Mailchimp templates (either one of the basic templates or a custom template from the 'Themes' menu.
Use 'Inspect element' and copy the source code of the iFramed html-email.
Paste in your preferred HTML-editor and modify as intended
Create your own template from the 'Paste in code' mode
If you want custom modules to be added by default, edit using the menu 'Edit design' in the bottom of the screen.
Save and exit :)
I found part of the answer on another topic: [Is it possible to code drag&drop templates for mailchimp?
If you add the following code into your main content div or td it will enable the drag and drop block editor:
mc:container="body_container" mccontainer="body_container"
example:
<div mc:container="body_container" mccontainer="body_container"></div>
This code will add a block editor region to the preheader section:
mc:container="preheader_container" mccontainer="preheader_container"
For the header:
mc:container="header_container" mccontainer="header_container"
For the footer:
mc:container="footer_container" mccontainer="footer_container"
Note: It doesn't seem to matter what you call the mc:container. Creating a new container with a different name worked. Although using just mc:container tag seems to work at first by itself, the mccontainer (no colon) tag is required for it to save properly.
You can create your own drag and drop template you need to add the following into your html coded template where you want the 'drag and drop' feature to exist.
<div id="templateBody" mc:container="container_name" mccontainer="container_name" class="tpl-container">
<div mc:block="3502204" mc:blocktype="text" mcblock="3502204" mcblocktype="text" class="tpl-block"></div>
</div>
This can be repeated in your code multiple times for multiple insertions. I could not find documentation to indicate if the container name or block number needs to be unique, I did make it unique in my template.
I'm trying to create a MailChimp template where an image is editable using mc:edit
Here's the code:
<img class="flexibleImage" mc:edit="top_image">
This seems all good, but once I edit this image using the MailChimp editor, I lose the original class "flexibleImage" and all other class and style info related to that img element.
How can I create a template with an editable image and maintain (or add) that class?
For anyone else with the problme, this answer is based on a response from MailChimp support:
It looks like it isn't possible to keep a custom class attached to an
editable image. What you could do instead though is apply the class
to the image's containing element. So if the image is in a <div>, add
flexibleImage to the div, and then update your CSS rules to point to
.flexibleImage>img.
This happens because the image you want to edit is inside an mc:repeatable block that in turn is inside another mc:repeatable block
Even four years later this is still an issue.
The other route is to put mc:edit on the parent container, and have images managed through there, but you lose the Image uploader box, which is poor user experience.
You can go into Settings when you have uploaded a new image and put the sizes in there. Not ideal, but Mailchimp is to blame here (no such issue on Campaign Monitor templates).
I've got a TinyMCE plugin that I'm using in Expression Engine. Problem is though I'm going from a textarea with code that uses EE tags to this and when saving it's breaking code.
For example, for an image I'll use src="{site_url}/image/logo.png", TinyMCE then rips out or corrupts the {site_url} part and try to and replace it with a relative path which (as site_url isn't at the root) is wrong.
I know you can add new tags for TinyMCE to respect in the config but this only assumes those wrapped in <> and not {}.
Anyone know if I can adapt this? Or have a better solution of something that will respect it?
Since TineMCE is a wysiwyg you need the full image path in order for the TinyMCE to render the image. I would recommend backing up the database and then running a find replace and replace on the old paths via sql: http://www.mediacollege.com/computer/database/mysql/find-replace.html