[Xerte] xhtml

Wed Dec 2 14:57:06 GMT 2009

I could but I thinking about scalability. The cool thing about XOT is it unlocks the power of Xerte for the whole campus, rather than having to worry about the standalone version everywhere.

it's not a major issue as not many people here would be competent enough to create their own stylesheets.

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 02 December 2009 14:49
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] xhtml

Could you not just add your styles to the default sheet the LO is using?

Dave

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From: aread at marjon.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 14:41:16 +0000
Subject: RE: [Xerte] xhtml
Ah I see, I'll give that a miss, I'll just end up breaking it!

What is an "icon" then? I presume we're not talking the fluffy little boxes on my desktop?!

It might be a nice feature to be able to import additional styles in toolkits to let us web developers make things look pretty :) - surely if css is coded to w3 standard the accessibility stuff should still work?

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 02 December 2009 14:33
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] xhtml

The icon property doesn't load a stylesheet. It, er, loads an icon...

If you want to load stylesheet in toolkits, I think you'll have to modify the Nottingham.rlt file and put it on the LO icon in there. Use the 'stylesheet' property.

Beware what this will do to all the accessibility options in the bottom of the interface...

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Read
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 2:31 PM
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: RE: [Xerte] xhtml

The only difference I can see is that my stylesheet isn't called style.css (but I presume this makes no difference?...if it does I'll sulk in the corner).

[cid:image001.jpg at 01CA735D.8069A380]

I remoted into the server just to check the css file is in the media dir - it is.

[cid:image002.jpg at 01CA735D.8069A380]

produces:

[cid:image003.png at 01CA735D.8069A380]

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 Adam Read
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 tel: 01752 636700 ext: 5673
 Room 563, Kirby Cudmore Building
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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 02 December 2009 14:16
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] xhtml

You're doing something wrong, as your example works for me - see attached.

Do you have FileLocation + 'styles.css' on the LO icon? Can't really see what else it could be.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Read
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 2:12 PM
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: RE: [Xerte] xhtml

Hi Dave

Adding a space after the colon doesn't make any difference. Just to check I copied the example css from the wiki:

link

{
            font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
            size: 12px;
            color: #00DDFF;
}

and then linked this to my LO using the icon property on the root learning object page

on an introduction page tried using <link>this is some styled text</link>

publish/view = no style

:(

any other suggestions?
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 Adam Read
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 University College Plymouth St Mark & St John

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 tel: 01752 636700 ext: 5673
 Room 563, Kirby Cudmore Building
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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 02 December 2009 12:22
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] xhtml

Think you need that space after the colon.

Also, this helps:

display: inline;

Otherwise if tags are nested you get a line break.
Paul discovered that one.
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From: aread at marjon.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:14:55 +0000
Subject: RE: [Xerte] xhtml
OK, so I've created a CSS file with

niceText
{
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color:#009999;
font-size:40px;
}

Located it using the Learning Object icon resource.

In a text area I coded:

bla bla bla <niceText>testing the style</niceText> bla bla bla

published and viewed but the style hasn't changed. Am I doing something obviously wrong?

(I tried #niceText in css and lowercase variations to no avail - I also tried a la xhtml syntax but that didn't work either).

Adam
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 Adam Read
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 tel: 01752 636700 ext: 5673
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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 02 December 2009 11:52
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] xhtml

You can also create your own tags in the stylesheet.
Check the archives for the discussion recently.

Dave
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From: aread at marjon.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:47:53 +0000
Subject: RE: [Xerte] xhtml
Lovely stuff, thanks

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 Adam Read
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 tel: 01752 636700 ext: 5673
 Room 563, Kirby Cudmore Building
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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 02 December 2009 11:44
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] xhtml

There is. Its in the helpfile:

You can format text with html tags. The HTML tags supported are <a>, , <li> . You can also specify a style sheet for the learning object on the Learning Object icon's properties.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Read
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 11:41 AM
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: [Xerte] xhtml

Is there any documentation outlining what xhtml tags Xerte will understand? It seems to work with some tags (e.g. <li>) but not others.

Thanks

Adam
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