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#101501 Make items in WYSIWYG selectable

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Latest post by saraheagle on Tuesday, 29 October 2019 09:14 GMT

saraheagle
Hello

A lot of my clients who don't know HTML are confused by the selecting of items, they do expect to be able to click on an item in the WYSIWYG and be able to edit them.
I have read https://www.joomlacontenteditor.net/support/documentation/editor/selecting-text-and-elements and I have tried to make the "path" element easier for them to understand.

It would make the editor so much easier for them if they could click on the div itself and have the attribute button show as selected like the "b or <strong>" button does, and then they could click on attributes and set the specific classes for that div.

This never used to be such an issue as I'd just create a few different templates for them, but now they want to be able to edit the padding, and margins etc of divs, and with Bootstrap giving those options, my clients want to be able to use them.

Thanks :)

Ryan
The Attributes dialog can be used for any selection in the editor, so it should technically be constantly highlighted, which might be confusing in itself.

I have however found a bug with both the Attributes dialog and how other formats are applied to the editor in general, when no explicit selection is made ie: some text or an image. For example, if you clicked somewhere in a paragraph, and then attempted to apply a style from the Styles list, this wouldn't work, as it required the entire paragraph to be selected, which is often difficult to do. I have changed this, so that now the style would be applied to the paragraph, without it having to be selected.

The same things also now happens when adding an attribute or class with the Attributes dialog.

This will be available in the next RC or the 2.8.0 general release.

Ryan Demmer

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saraheagle
The Attributes dialog can be used for any selection in the editor, so it should technically be constantly highlighted, which might be confusing in itself.

Yes, I see.

Thanks for the bug fix, you're so quick at sorting stuff out :)