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Clay Gordon
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
10 years ago
744 posts
There is no events.css, so I went looking for the CSS for this using developer tools. There's so much inheritance going on that it's difficult for me to figure out what the controlling style is.

Nonetheless, the default settings for the spacing between paragraphs is all wrong here and should probably be fixed in the next skin update.
updated by @claygordon: 02/17/15 08:16:07PM
douglas
@douglas
10 years ago
2,797 posts
I'm not seeing a spacing issue, do you have a link we can check out?

Thanks!


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Clay Gordon
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
10 years ago
744 posts
http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/chocliferoot/event/472/fcia-2015-winter-meeting

Looking at the source in the editor it looks like there is nothing added. Looking at it Chrome developer tools seems to indicate extra line break [br] statements are added. Seems to indicate.

To check that it's not a Chrome rendering thing I opened in Safari and see the same spacing.
updated by @claygordon: 01/05/15 06:59:19AM
Clay Gordon
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
10 years ago
744 posts
I am getting inconsistent formatting results.

On at least one imported forum discussion it looks like paragraphs might be missing entirel, but only in some entries. There are entries where paragraphs are missing at the top, then they are okay towards the bottom:

http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/chocliferoot/forum/tasting-notes/942/weird-flavors-and-inclusions-in-chocolate

On a new forum category I am getting the same double paragraph spacing issue as with events:

http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/chocliferoot/forum/faqs-on-using-the-new-site/14477/adding-new-content
updated by @claygordon: 01/05/15 07:58:48AM
brian
@brian
10 years ago
10,148 posts
The 5.2.20 beta release I just pushed out tries to fix up some of this, and should work well on items created in Jamroom. Items imported from Ning have A LOT of garbage in them as far as HTML tags and other weird spacing issues. The Ning Importer has some code in it to "repair" some of this as it is imported, but we frequently see new and inventive ways that Ning has messed up the text (not sure if that is on purpose or not, but it's a mess in some cases).


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updated by @brian: 01/05/15 08:10:34AM
Clay Gordon
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
10 years ago
744 posts
@Brian -

I can appreciate there is garbage in the Ning import. The problem is that the formatting issue I am talking about - extra spacing between paragraphs, is happening on new content I enter:

The interparagraph spacing on this page is wrong. I did a cut and paste from the About blog, where it appeared to be spaced properly:
http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/chocliferoot/forum/faqs-on-using-the-new-site/14479/new-features-and-changes

Here's a new Forum where I types stuff in by hand. It shows the same problems with the paragraph spacing as the Event listing I pasted in above.

http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/chocliferoot/forum/faqs-on-using-the-new-site/14478/what-cant-i-missing-functionality

The 5.2.20 beta release fixes these issues? It's not a CSS thing?
brian
@brian
10 years ago
10,148 posts
thechocolatelife:
@Brian -

I can appreciate there is garbage in the Ning import. The problem is that the formatting issue I am talking about - extra spacing between paragraphs, is happening on new content I enter:

The interparagraph spacing on this page is wrong. I did a cut and paste from the About blog, where it appeared to be spaced properly:
http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/chocliferoot/forum/faqs-on-using-the-new-site/14479/new-features-and-changes

Here's a new Forum where I types stuff in by hand. It shows the same problems with the paragraph spacing as the Event listing I pasted in above.

http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/chocliferoot/forum/faqs-on-using-the-new-site/14478/what-cant-i-missing-functionality

The 5.2.20 beta release fixes these issues? It's not a CSS thing?

Yes it does - this is not a CSS issue, it is the TinyMCE editor putting break tags right inside (and outside) the opening/closing paragraph tags. So the Core 5.2.20 strips out those extra break tags.

Let me know if that helps.

Thanks!


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Clay Gordon
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
10 years ago
744 posts
@Brian -

Just to double check. The 5.2.20 beta release will NOT update any skin files - .tpl or .css. Right?
brian
@brian
10 years ago
10,148 posts
thechocolatelife:
@Brian -

Just to double check. The 5.2.20 beta release will NOT update any skin files - .tpl or .css. Right?

That is correct - it is JUST the jrCore module - no other modules or skins.


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Clay Gordon
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
10 years ago
744 posts
@Brian -

I am in developer mode and I have the Beta (public) release channel active in the Marketplace Tools.
System core info /core/admin/info says that I am running 5.2.19.
I don't see a link to upgrade to 5.2.20 -- I would have assumed it was in system update and I don't see it in Developer Tools.
I think I have the correct developer name (jamroom user name) entered in Global config, if that's a requirement.
brian
@brian
10 years ago
10,148 posts
Developer mode doesn't matter here - all that matters is that you have the BETA channel active in your release channels. Then, when you go into System Update you would see the 5.2.20b2 beta version available for updating.

The issue here is that you're not a yearly subscriber, so you won't see the Beta Core release until it has been out for 30 days (and which at that time it will have been released).

Subscribers get access to new releases immediately.

So this will be fixed in the non-beta of Jamroom 5.2.20.

Hope this helps!


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Clay Gordon
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
10 years ago
744 posts
Gotcha - forgot about the early release program. Funny aside - I looked closely at that as I was looking for where the update was.

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