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Examples for embedded objects Updated
This topic has moved. The examples of embedded objects (views, alignment, inline and block) now lives on Embedded objects , which describes it for Exponential 6. In short: an embedded object is shown with the view and al…
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Formatted text Updated
This page explains the parts a rich text is made of, and how to make each one with the online editor: paragraphs and lines, headings, bold and italic text, lists, alignment, literal text, special characters, and the clas…
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Getting started Updated
This page takes you through your first text with the online editor: where it appears, how to type and paste, and how to give yourself more room. It replaces the earlier page "The text area". Where the editor appears Open…
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Keyboard shortcuts Updated
The online editors answer to the usual keys of a word processor, and to a few of their own. On a Mac, use Cmd where this page says Ctrl , and Option for Alt . The keys of the rest of the administration (search, the tree,…
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The element path Updated
Below the text of each rich text field, the status bar shows the element path : the names of the elements at the cursor, from the outermost to the innermost, for example Path: paragraph » strong » link . It tells you whe…
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The context menu Updated
This topic has moved. The context menu of the online editors now lives on The toolbar , which describes it for Exponential 6. In short: a right click into the text opens the editor's menu for what is at the cursor. In Ti…
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The text area Updated
This topic has moved. The text area of the online editors (where you type, how the text is stored, resizing the field) now lives on Getting started , which describes it for Exponential 6. In short: you type into the fiel…
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The toolbar Updated
This page describes the toolbar of the online editor, group by group, with the dialogs its buttons open. It covers TinyMCE 8 first and then what is different in Tiptap. It replaces the earlier pages "Dialog boxes" and "T…
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Style sheets (CSS) Updated
The colors, fonts, spacing and arrangement of a site's pages are set by the style sheets (CSS files) of its design. Changing them is developer or designer work, but site owners should know where they are, how they reach…
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Creating a Site Style Package Updated
Historical. This chapter describes the site style packages of the website interface ( ezwebin ) of the eZ Publish years. Exponential 6 has no site style packages: the look of a site comes from its design extension and, o…
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Customization Overview Updated
This chapter moved. Its content is now part of Changing the look of the site . This page described the two ways of customizing the website interface of the eZ Publish years: site style packages and changing its CSS.
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Design extension structure Updated
A site's design lives in a design extension : a folder below extension/ with the design's templates, style sheets, scripts, images and fonts, and the settings that switch it on. Site owners rarely open it, but it helps t…
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Installing a site style package Updated
Historical. This chapter describes the site style packages of the website interface ( ezwebin ) of the eZ Publish years. Exponential 6 has no site style packages: the look of a site comes from its design extension and, o…
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Site design and layout Updated
What a visitor sees on a page is made in three layers: the design draws every page (fonts, colors, header and footer markup), the layout decides which parts a page has and where they go, and the content fills them. In th…
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Templates in the debug bar Updated
When a page looks wrong, the first question is which template drew it. In Exponential 6 the Exp Debug bar answers it: a bar pinned at the bottom of the page, for the people who are given debug output, with tabs for the t…
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Site settings for site owners Updated
Some settings of a site are content and are changed by editing an item; others are configuration files read by the server. This page shows site owners where each kind lives in Exponential 6 and what they can change witho…
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Installing the Website Interface Updated
Historical. This chapter describes installing or upgrading the website interface package ( ezwebin 1.x) of the eZ Publish years. Exponential 6 installs a site from a site package with the setup wizard or with exp:install…
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Running the setup wizard Updated
A new Exponential site is installed from a site package : the classes, the content, the settings and the design of a kind of site, such as the multisite package with the Fit & Healthy demo. There are two ways to install:…
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Upgrading the Website Interface Updated
Historical. This chapter describes installing or upgrading the website interface package ( ezwebin 1.x) of the eZ Publish years. Exponential 6 installs a site from a site package with the setup wizard or with exp:install…
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Adding, editing and removing content Updated
With the website sidebar you create, edit, move, sort and remove pages on the public site, while you look at them. This page also holds what the former chapters Managing content , Editing existing content , Moving conten…