style box

[Guest]

What are the characteristics of the 16 standard tags in style box. How are
they defined and who defined them.

 

[MD Websunlimited]

Hi Bill,

What is a style box?

 

[Guest]

A style box is on the formatting toolbar and contains a style called Normal
It has paragraph and character formatting that I can't find out how to change.
It had been coming up as 10 pt Tms Roman and now comes up Arial.
I don't want either but can't do anything about it.

 

[Murray]

I see.

Those styles are FP-speak for standard HTML tags, e.g.,

Address = <address>
Bulleted List = <ul><li></li></ul>
Default Character Style would simply remove any other styles that have been
applied to that selected text.
Defined Term = <dt>
Definition = <dd>
Directory List = <dl>
Formatted = (beats the hell outta me)
Heading 1-6 = <h1></h1>...<h6></h6>
Normal = <p></p>
Numbered List = <ol><li></li></ol>

You can change ANY of these using CSS. Styles that you define in that page's
CSS will also appear in this dropdown, so, for example, if you had defined a
custom class called "special" in the CSS used on that page, you would see it
in the list.

For the meaning of those tags, get a good book on HTML.

 

[Ronx]

The Normal style in that box is how the page would appear if you do
not apply a style to anything in the page. It is a default for *you*.
Other people viewing your site will see whatever their browser
defaults to - usually 14px Times New Roman. I set my Normal style to
show the Curl MT font - anything that shows in Curlz MT needs
attention.

To change the appearance of the page for all users you need to add
styles to (at least) body, p, td, th tags.

 

[Ronx]

To change the Normal style, go to Tools->Page Options - Default Fonts
tab
Select the Language you use (example US/Western Europe (Windows)) and
then select the fonts to use.
This will not affect how the pages appear in the browser, only how
they appear in FP's Design View.

 

[Guest]

But thats the font only
How do I change the Normal paragraph paragraph formatting.
Normal is not an html tag so it isn't available when I try to change it
as to your response:
This will not affect how the pages appear in the browser, only how

they appear in FP's Design View

I'm not publishing in FP.
Im trying to publish on the web.
1 question:
How do I change both paragraph (indent, spacing, etc) & font formatting on
the Normal paragraph.

 

[Murray]

Normal is not an html tag so it isn't available when I try to change it

But thats the font only

Try this style -

p { font: bold italic 18px/20px verdana, arial, sans-serif;margin:1.5em;
padding:2px; border:1px dashed green;}

and see what happens to normal.

How do I change both paragraph (indent, spacing, etc) & font formatting
on
the Normal paragraph.

As I showed above. You redefine the p tag in CSS.

 

[Guest]

what do you mean attached?

By Standard tags I mean
Address
bulleted List
default character style
defined term
directory list
formatted
Heading 1-6
menu list
normal
numbered list
That appear when I click the box on the extreme left of the formatting
toolbar at the top of the FP screen.

 

[Murray]

There was an image attached to my post. Look for my subsequent post where I
explain each of those.

 

[Guest]

There are no attachmentsanywhere and no way to attach
Also I am getting unintelligible garbage all over the page and within the
text like > Normal is not an html tag so it isn't available when I try to
change it

Yeah, it is - it's a plain <p> tag.

or
I know that normal is not an html tag but you call it a plain <p> tag. >
I have no idea what that means.

Now when you say
As I showed above. You redefine the p tag in CSS.
It seems to mean that the only way to overwrite an inline style (normal) is
to write a css style called p

 

[Murray]

Most likely this is a problem of your coming in through web access and me
through newsreader access. Are you using a browser to get to this forum?

 

[Guest]

Thanks again, murray
Iam in fact using browser/web access and it's terrible-no attachments, all
the data garbage.
I'd prefer to use newsgroups but I don't know the name of this one. Send me
the name please.

 

[Ronx]

This link
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.frontpage.client
will open the FrontPage.client group (this group) in Outlook Express.