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Width of front end editor

Post by mikjenas » Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:06 pm

Hi. Using JCE editor. How can I set the width of the editor for the front end? At the moment when the editor is called up in the website part of it disappears behind the right column.

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Re: Width of front end editor

Post by subrat » Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:39 am

Hii

Try plugin>> Editor - TinyMCE 2.0>>advanced parameters>>full screen to hide.

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Re: Width of front end editor

Post by mikjenas » Fri Jul 04, 2008 4:35 pm

Thanks for your reply. I'm using the JCE editor. I have tried to set the width with the JCE parameters but no joy. Is there a components file (or similar) that sets the width of the text editor when editing from the front end?

Thanks
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Re: Width of front end editor - Resolved

Post by mikjenas » Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:22 pm

Discovered the problem. The dropdown menus on the top row (font etc.) weren't wrapping so I took them out in the text editor plugin area. This solved the problem.

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Re: Width of front end editor

Post by beededea » Wed Dec 17, 2008 2:53 pm

I'm not loking to implement the above solution but looking for some help with getting rid of the right hand column altogether when using the JCE editor. This was possible with 1.0 but I am using the JCE editor for a Joomla 1.5 site.

The issue is that the right hand column obscures some of the buttons and the editor scroll bar.

Previously on 1.0 templates where a right hand column was present I would edit the index.php file in the templates folder and use the following code to remove the right hand column when in editor mode.

replace:

<?php if (mosCountModules('right') { ?>

with:

<?php if (mosCountModules('right' && (! isset($task) || $task !='edit') { ?>

and this has invariably worked for me.


For J1.5 I have done the following in the index.php:

replaced:

<?php if( $this->countModules ('right or advert3 or advert4' > 0 ) { ?>

with:

<?php if ( $this->countModules( 'right or advert3 or advert4' ) > 0 and ( empty( $_REQUEST['task'] ) || $_REQUEST['task'] != 'edit' ) ) {

Hoping that the right hand column would disappear during the edit session.

However it does not. It appears to be correct but it does nothing. I assume the task variable is no longer available?

Has anyone got any pointers as how to remove the right hand column altogether when in editor mode in J1.5?
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Re: Width of front end editor

Post by beededea » Tue Jan 06, 2009 10:27 am

that code does manage to hide the right hand column successfully, the template I as working on just had a problem...
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Re: Width of front end editor

Post by kloporte » Sat Jul 18, 2009 5:58 pm

Hi, this is my first post here, but I wanted to say thanks to beededea ! You helped me a lot... For those who didn't get the explanation and want to hide the right menu when you open the article editor. In index.php, just embed the div containing your menu with beededea's line as follows:

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<?php if ( $this->countModules( 'right' ) > 0 and ( empty( $_REQUEST['task'] ) || $_REQUEST['task'] != 'edit' ) ) {?>
	<div id="rightcolumn" style="float: left;">	<!-- this is your right menu -->
		<jdoc:include type="modules" name="right" style="xhtml" />
	</div>
<?php }?>
Thanks again!

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Re: Width of front end editor

Post by doyon » Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:08 pm

I have been having this problem too, but I'm not sure I understand the fix.

I'm editing the index.php file in the folder containing my template.

This template (aloe-vera) contains this code for the right column:

</div>
<div class="sidebar2">
<jdoc:include type="modules" name="right" style="artblock" />
</div>

I have changed this to:

<?php if ( $this->countModules( 'right' ) > 0 and ( empty( $_REQUEST['task'] ) || $_REQUEST['task'] != 'edit' ) ) {?>

<div class="sidebar2">
<jdoc:include type="modules" name="right" style="artblock" />
</div>

<?php }?>

But the problem remains. I'm a newbie, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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Re: Width of front end editor

Post by educa3000 » Fri Feb 12, 2010 7:27 pm

For anyone who is looking for how to shrink the width of the editor: you can drag the toolbar buttons to lower rows in Components > JCE Administration > Groups > default or front end > layout.

Move the icons around on the rows until they all fit within the desired width. I'm using version 1.5.7.

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Re: Width of front end editor

Post by aquarian_design » Thu Mar 04, 2010 7:30 pm

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<?php if ( $this->countModules( 'right' ) > 0 and ( empty( $_REQUEST['task'] ) || $_REQUEST['task'] != 'edit' ) ) {?>
	<div id="rightcolumn" style="float: left;">	<!-- this is your right menu -->
		<jdoc:include type="modules" name="right" style="xhtml" />
	</div>
<?php }?>
I've inserted the above code in my index.php file to hide the right sidebar when the editor is open but it hides the right sidebar altogether not just when I'm editing a page. Am I missing something in the index.php file?

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Re: Width of front end editor

Post by salamanda » Thu Jun 24, 2010 2:02 pm

I am having the same issues with my main artcile pn the front page. it disapears behind the right column.

How can I fiy this? I have not been able to find the answer in the forums.
Site: fibromauterino.haifutech.com

thanks for any advice.

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Re: Width of front end editor

Post by beededea » Thu Jun 24, 2010 2:12 pm

You just have to do what is says above
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Re: Width of front end editor

Post by salamanda » Thu Jun 24, 2010 4:55 pm

The above doesn't work for me because I don't want to hide the right sidebar. i just want my article to fit between left/righ sidebar.

Any advice?

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Re: Width of front end editor

Post by beededea » Fri Aug 13, 2010 4:56 pm

Why don't you want to hide the right side bar? it is certainly not required whilst editing, at best it is a distraction
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Re: Width of front end editor

Post by a162624 » Fri Oct 29, 2010 7:49 pm

hey guys

trying to embed the code from kloporte

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<?php if ( $this->countModules( 'right' ) > 0 and ( empty( $_REQUEST['task'] ) || $_REQUEST['task'] != 'edit' ) ) {?>
   <div id="rightcolumn" style="float: left;">   <!-- this is your right menu -->
      <jdoc:include type="modules" name="right" style="xhtml" />
   </div>
<?php }?>
to my index.php. as i don't know php a bit i tried the whole day to place to code or fragments of it at the right place but just couldn't get it going. sometimes the module on the right side was doubled, sometimes just half formatted... ;)

can someone please tell me how it should looklike?

thank's allot.

my index.php:

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<?php
defined( '_JEXEC' ) or die( 'Restricted access' );
JPlugin::loadLanguage( 'tpl_SG1' );
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="<?php echo $this->language; ?>" lang="<?php echo $this->language; ?>" >
<head>
<jdoc:include type="head" />

<link rel="stylesheet" href="templates/system/css/system.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="templates/<?php echo $this->template ?>/css/template.css" type="text/css" />

<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<link href="templates/<?php echo $this->template ?>/css/ie6.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<![endif]-->


</head>
<body id="page_bg">
	<div id="container">
		<div id="title">
   <img src="../Medien/Bilder/Header/logo.png" title="Chick And Nuggets" alt="image_alternate_text" />

</div>
		
		<div id="menu">
			<div id="pillmenu">
				<jdoc:include type="modules" name="user3" />
			</div>
			<div id="search">
				<jdoc:include type="modules" name="user4" />	
			</div>
		</div>
	
		<div id="wrapper">	
			<?php if($this->countModules('left') and JRequest::getCmd('layout') != 'form') : ?>
			<div id="leftcolumn">
				<div class="column_top">
					<div class="column_bottom">
						<jdoc:include type="modules" name="left" style="rounded" />
						<?php $sg = 'banner'; include "templates.php"; ?>
					</div>
				</div>
			</div>
			<?php endif; ?>
			
			<div id="holder">
				<div id="holder1">
					<div id="newsflash">
						<jdoc:include type="modules" style="rounded" name="top" />
					</div>
					<div id="popular">
						<jdoc:include type="modules" style="rounded" name="user2" />
					</div>
					<?php if($this->countModules('right') and JRequest::getCmd('layout') != 'form') : ?>			
					<div id="maincolumn">
					<?php else: ?>
					<div id="maincolumn_full">
					<?php endif; ?>	
						<div class="nopad">				
							<jdoc:include type="message" />
							<?php if($this->params->get('showComponent')) : ?>
								<jdoc:include type="component" />
							<?php endif; ?>
						</div>		
					</div>
					<?php if($this->countModules('right') and JRequest::getCmd('layout') != 'form') : ?>
					<div id="rightcolumn">
						<div class="column_top">
							<div class="column_bottom">
								<jdoc:include type="modules" name="right" style="rounded" />								
							</div>
						</div>
					</div>
					<?php endif; ?>
					<div class="clr"></div>
					<jdoc:include type="modules" name="debug" />		
				</div>
			</div>
			<div class="clr"></div>
		</div>
		<div id="footer">
			<?php $sg = ''; include "templates.php"; ?>
			<p style="text-align: center;">
				<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer"></a>
				<a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer"></a>
			</p>
		</div>
	</div>
</body>
</html>

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Re: Width of front end editor

Post by Nemesiss » Tue Jan 18, 2011 5:47 am

I'm having this same issue and the posted suggestions fail to work. It seems strange that it's required to edit core code in order to fix an issue that many others must also be experiencing.

I have the same setup as doyon has posted for my template. I'm not getting any help from the JCE forums, and I really need this corrected as my front page isn't editable right now.

I like the idea of hiding the right column for editing, however I do have on quesiotn about that. If you hide the right column and a user edits the page will the width of the editor and the content they add then not fit once the right column comes back on? I'd test that but I can't get the right column to turn off when editing.

The reason the above code didn't work for me, is that it does hide the right side modules, but the space those modules occupied is still there and so the editor still disappears behind that space even though there is no modules still in that position.

I think it's due to how the code is done in the template:

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<?php if ($showRight) : ?>
                                <?php if ( $this->countModules( 'right' ) > 0 and ( empty( $_REQUEST['task'] ) || $_REQUEST['task'] != 'edit' ) ) {?>
							<div id="right">
								<div class="bottom equal">
									<jdoc:include type="modules" name="right" style="user" />
								</div>
							</div>
                            <?php }?>
                            
							<?php endif; if ($showLeft) : ?>
							<div id="left">
								<div class="bottom equal">
									<jdoc:include type="modules" name="left" style="user" />
								</div>
							</div>
							<?php endif; ?>
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Re: Width of front end editor

Post by Nemesiss » Tue Feb 01, 2011 4:34 am

Not that this is a fix for the JCE editor, but the way I corrected the issue was that I uninstalled the JCE editor and installed the JCK editor which handled the article width automatically. ;)

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Re: Width of front end editor

Post by Sixthe » Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:51 pm

I found a solution. I had the same problem with the JCE editor and I was unable to adjust the width of the editor. In my case this was because the buttons in the editor toolbar were to wide. The had too much padding and they inherited this padding from the css which was meant for other text links, in my template.
All I had to do was to change my template css. Taking out padding of links.
I hope this can help others.
Best regards Sixthe

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Re: Width of front end editor

Post by dave37 » Mon Mar 28, 2011 6:03 pm

Thanks sixthe, your solution was by far the easiest and it worked great. Cheers! :)

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Re: Width of front end editor

Post by Desertrider » Tue Aug 09, 2011 6:16 pm

Using JCE editor in Joomla 1.5. Template is Rocket Themes (rt_equinox). I have a situation where I'm creating a non-visible front end login for a couple of users at the Publisher access level. Only want them to be able to write new or edit existing articles.

I've got all the stuff I need to do to create the discrete login but the problem I'm having is that when I use the front end login at the Publisher level and then access an article to edit, the editor and buttons are partially hidden on the right hand side by the user2 module.

I've read the above posts on how to fix this by editing the template index.php file but in this case the rt_equinox index.php doesn't seem to have the same code as the ones I have read in this topic.

Here is the code from what I think is the relative part of the index.php that affects the right hand module (user2). If anyone has any suggestions on how to accomplish hiding this in edit mode I would appreciate a response. I can post entire index.php code if necessary.

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				<!-- start secondary column area -->
				<?php if ($this->countModules('user2')) : ?>
				<div id="secondcol">
					<div class="col1">
						<div class="col2">
							<jdoc:include type="modules" name="user2" style="rounded" />
						</div>
					</div>
				</div>
				<?php endif; ?>
				<!-- end secondary column area -->
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Re: Width of front end editor

Post by wises » Fri Sep 02, 2011 7:07 am

JCE 2.0.12

JCE Administration > Control Panel > Profiles > default > Features

Re-Arrange the Icons to fit ;)

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Re: Width of front end editor

Post by Desertrider » Fri Sep 02, 2011 6:01 pm

wises wrote:JCE 2.0.12

JCE Administration > Control Panel > Profiles > default > Features

Re-Arrange the Icons to fit ;)
As stated in my post part of the problem is that not only are the icons not visible but the right side of the editor window itself is hidden by the user2 column. This means that the text is not visible. Will your suggestion also make the editor window fully visible?
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Re: Width of front end editor

Post by wises » Fri Sep 02, 2011 9:24 pm

The editor width by default is 600px which in effect pushed the [save] button off under the

column in my case.

After Reducing the Width (or should I say Icons) dropping them down a line - inserted a new line
then drag-n-dropped over-flowing icons onto that line and making sure that they fit the width of the template.

it worked fine and the [save] button is visible.

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Re: Width of front end editor

Post by Desertrider » Fri Sep 02, 2011 10:05 pm

Thanks for the information and download link. Looks like this will be an easier solution then modifying the .php file for the Rocket Theme (Equinox).
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Re: Width of front end editor

Post by wises » Mon Sep 05, 2011 1:13 am

no worries , hope it helps you with your problem.

may also be worth posting your problem on the Rocket theme's forums as others may be in the same boat and just as frustrated.

it seems that sometimes template makers forget that most user's don't use the Tiny-MCE editor but rather JCE has become the somewhat Universal standard for Joomla IMO.

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Re: Width of front end editor

Post by fragtrup » Sat Mar 03, 2012 6:10 pm

To help anyone with the same problem i Joomla 2.5. I was able to make it work with this

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if ( empty($_REQUEST[layout]) || $_REQUEST[layout] != 'edit')
The $_REQUEST[task] is changed to $_REQUEST[layout]

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Re: Width of front end editor

Post by Dontukzyk » Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:53 am

Thank you very much for sharing the 2.5 width trick but I can't find in any file this line " $_REQUEST[task] " not even in the template index.php ...
Should I add this line somewhere in the index ? How ? Thanks a lot!
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